Seedpod Readers discussion

It's been a while, I know. In the interim, spring has sprung. April showers have brought May flowers, and here we are, in the lacy breezes of late spring. School years are ending (it happens earlier every year), and summer reading lists are coming out. There's plenty to choose from and plenty to talk about in this installment of Seedpod book notes:

Susan Taylor Chehak and Jonathan Gottschall write about how fiction shapes us, influences us, changes our minds: Fiction Does Mold Us and Why Fiction is Good For You.

Muggles with Kindles can at long last read Harry Potter: Harry Potter Kindle Books Available (for free) to Amazon Prime Users.

Reading web articles on your Kindle: The Magic of Instapaper on your Kindle.

We do wonder: Are Facebook and other "social sharing" defaults that publicize what we're reading hurting our intellectual privacy? The Perils of Social Reading.

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