Lunchtime links.
- At Whatever: Gene Wolfe Chosen as SFWA Grand Master.
- At mental_floss: 12 Characters From Your Childhood Voiced by Tim Curry. (Um, yeah. If your childhood was, like, FIVE MINUTES AGO.)
- Pictures from The Hobbit's UK premiere. ULTRA-HAPPY ADORBS James Nesbitt, #11; SUPER-PENSIVE ADORBS Martin Freeman, #12.
- Hans Christian Andersen's first story found: "The story tells of a little candle, dirtied by life and misunderstood, which eventually finds happiness after a tinder box sees the good at its heart and lights it."
- From a post about E.B. White's house at Writers' Houses: "That’s when a dog that wasn’t mine barked loudly and rapidly and I became painfully aware of the fact of what I was doing and how quickly I’d been discovered: I was trespassing, and not just trespassing, but trespassing in Maine."
- William Polking on his first stint as a Cybils Round One Panelist: "I am reading more than I ever have, but I no longer think I read a lot. My efforts thus far have been dwarfed by two of the other panelists, whom I firmly believe must be independently wealthy, Adderall-abusing insomniacs. Things were so bad last week that I considered taking a sick day from school just to lessen my to-be-read pile, whose current size blocks out the sun and affects the tides."
- Pretty Little Liars Quiz: Could YOU Be A?
- Announced: The NAACP 2013 Image Award Nominees. Among the Teen finalists? Sharon Flake's Pinned.
- At The Hub: 2012 “Best of” Lists by the Numbers.