McDonald’s Happy Meal Books & Dorian Grey Poupon: Top Stories of the Week

For your three-day weekend reading pleasure, here are the most popular stories of the week, including A Heartbreaking Shower Curtain of Staggering Genius, Captcha-inspired literature and books dancing in an empty bookstore (amazing video embedded above).

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1. Books Dance in Empty Bookstore
2. Dave Eggers Publishes Shower Curtain
3. Banished Words of 2012
4. How to Buy eBooks from an Indie Bookstore
5. Christopher Hitchens’ Final Vanity Fair Essay
6. 2012 Reading Challenge at Goodreads
7. Captcha Inspires New Literary Genre
8. Study: Kids Like eBooks Better Than Print
9. McDonald’s to Put 9 Million Books in UK Happy Meals
10. The Picture of Dorian Grey Poupon

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