During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

We Read...

Good news: Book illustrators may be a part of your commute if you take the NYC subway, and scientists have found readers live longer. On the flip side, "What happens when someone dies? You eat some food. You hear some poems," new Schomburg director and poet extraordinaire Kevin Young tells Prune owner and chef Gabrielle Hamilton.  We recommended self-help books to The Suicide Squad superbaddies; maybe they could use these hyper-precise, hyper-unique emotion words. By the way, what's the word for suffering in books and movies? Or the feeling of looking at cats librarians love? There's another great love affair we're obsessing over. It's that between science and poetry, and we think it will last as long as the reign of the period. Meanwhile,  the slave narrative is being rewritten brilliantly by the likes of Colson Whitehead.  Oh, and psst!: everything you need for #NationalBookLoversDay is here.

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TGIF:

No need to get up! Join our librarians from the home, office, playground — wherever you have internet access — for book recs on Twitter by following our handle @NYPLrecommends from 10 AM to 11 AM every Friday. Or, you can check NYPL Recommends any day of the week for more suggestions.
 

Beautiful day in the neighborhood...who needs a new book? Tell us one you like & we'll suggest another. #fridayreads pic.twitter.com/FHMTcRtR76 — NYPL Recommends (@NYPLRecommends) August 5, 2016

@kkc212 Awesome! Can't resist suggesting Ann Patchett's BEL CANTO -- another opera-related page-turner. #FridayReads

— NYPL Recommends (@NYPLRecommends) August 5, 2016

What did you read?

If you read something fantastic this week, share with our community of readers in the comment section below.