Morning links.

• There are only a few days left to vote in the semifinal round of the 2012 GoodReads Choice Awards.
• Excited about the National Book Awards tonight? Gear up with readings from this year's finalists in the Fiction and Nonfiction categories at NPR. 
• This headline is straight out of the Brothers Grimm: Russian grandmother kills wolf with axe, bare hands.
• The timewaster to end all timewasters.
• Another trailer for The Host:

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• The 2012 Oxford Dictionaries American Word of the Year? GIF. The UK Word of the Year? Omnishambles. More at mental_floss.
• YA books in which the male and female leads act as equals.
• Yet another tumblr to follow: Slushpile Hell.
• Hilarious advertisement for Good Books. (Somewhat NSFW, though it's mostly innuendo and imagery of the trains-entering-tunnels nature): 

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