Seedpod Readers discussion

Valentine's Day approaches, and we begin to see satin boxes and mylar balloons everywhere we look -- in grocery stores and on sidewalks, at the reception desks of office buildings. We sigh. We bemoan commercialized love. It is all so manufactured, but (I reason) we might as well run with the cheese-factor in this, our next installment of Seedpod book notes:

A couple lists of love stories: Top 20 Most Famous Love Stories and Top 10 Literary Romances.

Also, some love stories from the Goodreads shelves of Seedpod editors: Maurice, The Marriage Plot, Scattershot (full disclosure: this was published by Seedpod and written by our very own Richard Goodwin), Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and Othello.

In non-Valentine news:

Looking for another reason to celebrate 2012? It's the bicentenary year of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of the coolest cats on the literary scene, whether we're talking the 19th Century or the 21st. The Literary Platform has a list of apps and ebooks to help supplement your Dickensian reading experience.

Teleread writers consider the best ways to introduce kids to paper and ebooks.

And here's what our Seedpod editors have been reading:

I'm glad to see this new consideration of introvertedness--that it's not shyness or misanthropy.