Lunchtime links.

• At Book Riot: A romantic history told in bookish moments.
• At the Guardian: Reading aloud to adults is a Hip New Thing. (The headline says 'storytelling', but the actual article is about reading aloud. A fact that many commenters have pointed out, naturally.)
• 'Hashtag' is the American Dialect Society's word of the year.
• Quentin Tarantino is planning on getting into the book review game.
• Looking forward to this one: The Death of Bees.
• Free book: A Mosque Under the Stars. (via boingboing)
• At Screwy Decimal: 5 Reasons Being a Librarian is Stressful.
• The LoC on their Twitter archive: "We now have an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets and growing. The volume of tweets the Library receives each day has grown from 140 million beginning in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day as of October 2012."