This fortnight on the bookish internet

• Howard Timberlake asked other readers about what happens to them when they fall in love with a book. (BBC)
• G.R. Macallister would very much like to know where all the matriarchies in fiction are. (LitHub)
• Carina Pereira would like to remind book reviewers to be kind. (Book Riot)
• Heather Hansman looks at eleven different novels to see the ways that climate change and climate anxiety are manifesting in fiction. (The Atlantic)
• Fatima Faiza reports on efforts by Aghan teenagers to run an underground book group. (Al Jazeera)
• Lev AC Rosen shares his thoughts after learning that one of his books was banned, and the deep sadness he feels about how such actions stir up memories of anti-LGBT+ persecution over the years. (LitHub)
• Alice Nuttall explores the ways that older people are depicted in fiction. (Book Riot)
• Alex Beggs looks to fiction to see what the future of food might be. (bon appétit)
• Book Riot has your weekly dose of censorship news.