• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, asexual, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Learn more about the history of public libraries. (I recently read The Library Book by Susan Orlean and it was exceptional.)
• “Amazon before Amazon: The forgotten history of the Amazon Bookstore Cooperative” (Minneapolis).
• Amusing ficlet.
• Some literature humor.
• Some info about non-celiac gluten/wheat sensitivity.
• A fun performance of Bohemian Rhapsody – and it’s not the Green Day concert one.
• I wouldn’t mind living in this one.
• Lovely little desert compound.
• Very nice MCM.
• Another MCM – “an off-brand Frank Lloyd Wright”.
• Colorful little cottage.
• Castle-eque with 29 bedrooms.
• Unusual auto shop conversion in St Paul, Minnesota.
• Very interesting.
• It’s quite, um, dramatic.
• In the “you didn’t even try” category…
• Nope.
• I’m not liking that they’re laminate, which isn’t the best at supporting weight.
• Very awkward indeed.

Harry and Polly from above.

Sleeping Harry.

Polly!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA comics/nonfiction, YA, dystopian YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “We’re in a book affordability crisis“.
• Great progress is being made on preventing kitties from developing kidney disease.
• “Dimming the sun like a volcano” “climate fix“.
• Thanks, I hate it.
• Pumpkin whoopie pies.
• A 15th century tower castle.
• Lovely MCM.
• Very unique MCM.
• Decent MCM, especially for the price.
• Cute little place in the Catskills.
• Nice condo in the tower of a converted Baroque-Revival church – you would definitely get your exercise.
• This has some before and after photos.
• A very strange looking house.
• Very personalized.
• An interior/exterior disconnect.
• Entirely for the exterior paint, which is BRIGHT.
• What deals you can get in certain states…
• You’re going through the pictures, thinking it’s a nice rich person townhouse, and then you see the picture of the room with the green carpet and door. Wha…?
• D’oh.
• Huh.
• Mind the gaps.
• I hate this type .
• Infinite head bump generator!
• Trip over the lip and fall down the stairs.
• These can’t be real, can they?!
• Just say no to glass stairs.

Polly!

Harry!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, horror mysteries, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Ficlet.
• Just because I was really into this movie as a kid – a review of Escape to Witch Mountain.
• “This new superwood is as strong as steel and six times lighter“.
• Why all of your clothes are worse now (it isn’t your imagination).
• Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator.
• A comic about gender.
• Cute condo in NYC, but the price and condo fees are ridiculous.
• Rainbow house.
• Fun Victorian.
• Fibonacci house in Sedona.
• Has a disco in the attic.
• A sort of odd “as is” house.
• The place itself is bland but the decor is very seasonal.
• Mostly for the bedroom wallpaper. You’ll know which one I mean.
• Awkwardly converted courthouse in Utah.
• Bathroom placement fail.
• Why would they do that??
• Looks like that’ll be deadly when wet.
• Flimsy.
• Yikes.

Siblings asleep on my legs/lap.

Harry needs privacy so he can go back to licking the fur off of his belly…

Sleeping Polly.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, queer YA romance, queer, best out in October)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrmKnits.
• BookWyrmKnits also has some quotes from banned books, because it is Banned Books Week!
• Go turn off tracking IDs on your iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
• Pumpkin mug cake.
• Very nice MCM, although I can see some places the floors need work. I would have to replace the green laminate counters, but as a collage artist, the set of old Britannicas would be a bonus!
• A fun Victorian.
• Disconcerting exterior but I like the interior.
• Charming.
• Spaceship style MCM. Maybe we’ve seen it before. Maybe we haven’t. I certainly don’t remember!
• The interior is definitely better than the exterior.
• Weird unfinished one in Utah. It includes an underground Western town with a shooting gallery and an underground race track.
• Included just for the dizzying effects of the bath tile.
• Have we seen this one before? I’m not a fan of the “peeling paint” tile.
• Shopping mall vibes.
• WTH Victorian “restoration”.
• Hmm. Their conversion vision was… odd.
• The House of Sin.
• You could own an incomplete disaster of a house.
• Just say no to glass stairs.
• These look extremely annoying.
• Jeepers.
• *sigh*

Both cats on my lap/legs.

Polly on my lap.

Harry using a scratcher.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (SFF, romance, YA, historical fiction, spooky genre-benders, mystery/thriller/true crime, nonfiction, best out this week, horror (BIPOC)), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “The library is not a quiet place anymore – and that’s a good thing“.
• Cats in medieval manuscripts.
• If you’re still using Windows 10, you have until October 14th to enroll to extend support. Yes, they’re making you ask, not providing it automatically.
• Great condo.
• I mean, the converted mill is nice enough, but having your own waterfall would be excellent.
• Live in a wee lighthouse.
• Quite nice house built in the 13th century.
• Cute little MCM, although I’d have to do some kitchen updating – I hate metal cabinets.
• Late MCM with some hobbit influences.
• Very curious about what the interior looked like before the renovation.
• Slightly strange one in Minnesota.
• The Boulder lurketh.
• This poor house – you sure can’t tell from the inside that it was built in 1948.
• Giving me big supervillain/superhero lair vibes.
• Perfect if you enjoy dangerous stairs and hitting your head on ceilings.
• Ouch. The two story drop when you inevitably fall…

Harry using his sister as a pillow.

Sinister Harry is sinister.

Flat Polly looking out the window.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A post about clothing that made me think.
• Pumpkin cream cheese muffins.
• Very nice MCM.
• Cute one in San Francisco.
• I love the interior but the exterior gives me quonset hut vibes.
• Interesting late MCM.
• Castle-esque but one story, which seems wrong.
• Work at the bar, live in the upstairs studio.
• Comes with a freshly renovated movie theater.
• This Utah mansion is over the top in a whole new way. Hedge maze, arcade, slides and pipes, trampolines in the ground, hobbit house connected by tunnel…
• A “flounder” house and barn.
• Opulent… split-level ranch.
• This sort of interior color scheme always seems very Bat Cave to me.
• I have to wonder if they took out too many walls during the bad remodel.
• Way too much white. Also, wtf is up with the fireplace in the kitchen? It looks easy to walk into.
• Eeep.
• Yikes.
• Sharp and too thin.
• Whoopsy.
• No.
• Just no.

Harry had a lot to tell me!

Polly with her best school picture smile!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) , Book Riot (YA nonfiction/comics, YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Book Riot.
• Ficlet with a punch.
• “I think of the first draft as an armature.“
• Banana for scale – more knitting related than you might expect.
• Lovely.
• Cute.
• I like this (and not just because of the built-in bookcases).
• Fun NYC town home.
• Pretty nice. Includes an indoor koi pond.
• Partially restored Lloyd Wright house (no typos or missing words in this sentence).
• Potentially a gamer’s paradise, but the grayscale remodel…
• Interior/exterior disconnect.
• Any MCM features this poor house had are long gone, but it DOES have a double shower in the dining room.
• Must love marble and copper (this week’s Las Vegas home).
• They really couldn’t decide what their decorating theme was.
• Whereas these folks definitely had a theme…
• The original isn’t great, but the realtor’s version is definitely worse.
• Hmm.
• Forget the bracket – these look soooo slippery.
• On top of everything else, these look slippery, too.
• No.

Harry with his paw around Polly. Awwww!

Polly staring out the window.

Harry for Talk Like a Pirate Day…

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Reactor (YA SFF/horror), Book Riot (YA horror, horror,  feminist nonfiction, YA, best out this week, YA romantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• What a dangerous sport – who thought automobile polo was a good idea?
• 30 one-pot dinners for fall.
• No-bake chocolate eclair cake.
• Peanut butter cup bars.
• Cute converted shipping container house.
• Nice one in St Paul, MN.
• This has so many bookshelves!
• A bit quirky.
• Castle esque with a very thematic shower curtain in bathroom #3.
• A mansion that’s not horrifically tacky!
• You’re going to need roller skates to get around this place.
• Vision check – the tile in the kitchen is green, right? Not blue?
• Very BLUE.
• Very BRIGHT.
• Very DRAMATIC.
• Perhaps you’ve always wanted a used tour bus?
• Or maybe you’ve always dreamed of owning a swinger’s resort…
• Some unusual choices were made.
• Poorly converted funeral home, but at least all of the creepy stuff is gone.
• You can use the car lift to get your vehicles up to your condo and then park them on your terrace.
• Huh.
• Also huh.
• Mind the gap indeed.
• Mind the drop!
• Definitely terrible.
• That first step is a doozy.
• D’oh.
• No landing except what you’ll be doing after you fall down them.

So much Attitude.

Polly on the move.

Harry!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (witchy, romance, SFF, queer, graphic novels, nonfiction, mysteries/thrillers/true crime, YA, all genres), Reactor (SF, fantasy), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A fascinating story of a very sturdy rose that survived several weeks underwater after Hurricane Katrina.
• An actual Gothic castle tower!
• Cute fairy tale cottage.
• I like this, although the optical illusion bookcases are freaking me out.
• Strange.
• Must be ok with dangerous rock features.
• Personally, I’m glad the creepy figures aren’t included.
• Very gaudy NYC mansion – unsurprising when you see who the owner was.
• “Cold War-era luxury bunker” in Las Vegas.
• Decor that just makes you go “huh”.
• Railings would be good.
• They had space to make them normal!

Polly cannot believe!

Very serious Harry is very serious.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA nonfiction/comics, YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “Books as a ballast against brainrot“.
• “A guide to caring for each other while changing the world“.
• So many times.
• Free exercise library with a geeky slant.
• 48 zucchini recipes.
• Lovely woodwork.
• Nicely done manor house with a library in the tower.
• Two-house property in Taos.
• Decent condo in a converted cotton mill/factory.
• I’ve walked past this one before.
• Inspired by Japanese teahouses.
• Little Red Caboose – definitely not for the serious chef.
• Pueblo style house with a mystery in the shower.
• Very colorful.
• Unusual layout, plus lots of color and lots of stuff.
• Carpeted basement detracts from its castle-esque vibe.
• If renting’s your thing, how about a land-bound boat?
• Over-the-top Las Vegas home. Figures may or may not be included.
• Overdesigned.
• Why would you turn a pole barn into a house?
• Ridiculous.
• Why.
• Seriously, why.

Harry, looking thoughtful.

Polly, looking like she’s pretending to listen.