We keep meaning to make these cheerier, but they always come out grim….

Some book-related links:

• J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide after divorce (BBC)
• Minute of silence in Sri Lanka as Arthur C. Clarke laid to rest (The New York Times)
• The nine most annoying people in bookstores (Bookgasm)
• Cops name their favourite reads* (The Seattle Times)
• Publishing wars: Britain vs. Australia edition (The Age)
• Tintin publisher dead at 92 (ComicMix)
• Do business books make us zombies? (Fast Company)

* Must… resist… “arresting prose”… pun….