As usual, BlogHers are reading, writing, and researching all sorts of cool stuff. Here's a sampling of fun and interesting posts from the past week.

I wish I started reading CultureCat, by Clancy Ratliffe sooner. This this recent post is done in a very cool, comic-book style.

Over at Office Hours, MommyProf offers Academia the Musical.

PeripateticPolarBear, of The Ice Floe wrote a really funny entry about going to a poetry reading.

I considered carefully the suggestions of the commenting crowd and searched for something in which I would look European and haughty or possibly depressed. At the last minute, I realized that I had no beret, which is a truly tragic thing.

At Dialog, Maria writes about changes in the way she reads. I can relate to this passage.

I read fiction and non-fiction pretty quickly, but then I start thinking about the writing. It's hard to enjoy "pleasure reads" because I'm thinking about the process. I try to pick out edits that happened after the initial write-through. I look for style shifts or diction that I don't think is appropriate. I re-edit the book. The movie. The t.v. show.

At The Clutter Museum, Trillwing seeks advice on language use in the 1940s.

My question: How appropriate would it have been for a woman born in 1882 to use the phrase "buying orgy" in professional (but likely confidential) correspondence? Was "orgy" a term commonly used by American women circa WWII?

For fun with blogging, the College Web Editor points to a newspaper clipping generator.

Kaijsa Calkins blogs about life and librarianship at Jag saker job.