Coming soon: a proper blog post! Steady now. In the meantime, however, here’s my pick of the interwebs.

• Now that Ruth Padel has resigned as Oxford Professor of Poetry, who should get the job?
• Along with the rest of the blogosphere, I have recently become obsessed with Awkward Family Photos.
• From The F Word, an open letter to Carol Sarler.
• Catherine on Marie Corelli.
• From OUPblog, scientists without beards – great women scientists.
• DGR on The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan. Recently bought this, and am desperate to read it. Damn you dissertation.
• Stewart at Booklit on The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet. I have a copy of this too, and promise I will get round to reading it soon.
• I think this is pretty.
• Lookshelves. Bookcase porn.
• The Lebanese Feminist Collective launches a campaign against an election poster which translates as “Be Beautiful and Vote” (h/t The F Word). They say:

Are you implying that women are too stupid to engage in real-life politics? That the only way you can appeal to their voting power is by reminding them to look pretty?