Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Writing x characters when you aren’t x: A masterlist“.
• Works entering the public domain in 2020.
• Lots of quotes about libraries and librarians.
• Stylometry: Who wrote what? (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
• Some Terry Pratchett/Good Omens humor.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• Fascinating tidbit of Renaissance painting history.
• Barn owls with Weird Biology.
• Kiwi birds with Weird Biology.
• The Gaboon viper with Weird Biology. (Yeah, Weird Biology is a time suck – beware!)
• The San Francisco Columbarium and Emmitt.
• Cookie Monster is back on Waze.
• “14-year old genius solves blind spots“.
• “Astronauts are testing what happens when you bake cookies in space“.
• “What happened to adult coloring books? Charting the boom and the bust“.

Cookity

• 10 pumpkin recipes.

Gluten Free

• Sandwich bread.
• “Thin Mints” cookies.

Cool

• Working around some fairy tale curses.
• Picking your heavenly house after you die.
• “People matching artworks“.
• Humans are weird, clap clap stomp.
• The Halloween Moose!
• “Self-coupling“.

Wha…?

• Eggnog wine.

LOL

• MN vs the rest of the US.
• The end of Daylight Savings.
• The truth behind Wikipedia!

Reading Update

• Good Omens fanfics, yup, you guessed it.

“I feel strangely crowded for some reason…” -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (sf, fantasy, young adult sff, genre benders) and AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches. More linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Listen to a free short audiobook horror story by China Mieville.
• Listen/watch Neil Gaiman read a horror story.
• Neil Gaiman on how well received the Good Omens TV show has been.
• A librarian on the Macmillan ebook embargo, which goes into effect today.
• “Neither allegory nor lion: Aslan and the Chronicles of Narnia“.
• “The evolution of dragons in Western literature: A history“.
• On Jane Austen’s writing desk.
• Margaret Atwood knit a Great Auk.
• Non-book gift ideas for readers.
• “Does switching to Comic Sans really fix writer’s block?“
• NaNoWriMo tips from bookwyrmknits.
• Library puns.
• “Tips for surviving an Agatha Christie novel“.
• “It is a lovely day in Ankh-Morpork and you are a horrible goose“. Death and the goose.

Do, Make, Think, Learn

• Remember the Halloween Blizzard of 1991? That photo doesn’t do it justice.
• On gaming, knitting, textile workers, and computer history.
• Anxiety and ADHD.
• What the “perfect” female body has looked like at various points in history.
• “A tribute to Jane Fonda and her 50 years of activism“.
• Tips for packing for emergency evacuation.
• I like the concept of “load-bearing” more than spoons.
• VINDICATED.

Cookity

• 23 kale salad recipes.
• 20 recipes for fall soups.
• One-pot chickpea tomato peanut stew.
• Easiest two-ingredient chocolate mousse.
• Instant Pot bourbon pecan pie.
• Salted honey no-bake peanut butter pie. (via The Kitchn)
• No-bake pumpkin cheesecake bars.
• Apple cider doughnut cake. (via itstartledme)

Gluten Free

• Pizza pinwheels.
• Brownie bottom pie with peanut butter mousse filling.
• Butter cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Learn to knit with scales.
• Knit Star Trek socks. (via tinsnip)

Cool

• About the Hogwarts Interhouse Nuisance Orchestra.
• It STARTS as a “humans are weird” post…
• Defending a genie charged with “felonious wish-granting”.
• Fancy jack-o-lanterns at the Minnesota Zoo.
• Halloween costume idea: the Edmund Fitzgerald.
• Halloween linkity from kmkat. Linkity from kmkat. More linkity from kmkat.
• Linkity from bookwyrmknits.

Wha…?

• Awful Halloween costumes.
• Faux flesh phone cases.

LOL

• Lizards and Canada.
• Some things to consider before accepting a quest from a wizard.
• “OMG! A ghost!“
• Laugh your way through the Lord of the Rings movies via sh*tposts.
• Definitely how much of autumn in Minneapolis has been.
• AP English drama and suspense!

Reading Update

• Good Omens fanfic! And the actual Good Omens novel again…

*side-eyeing* -Chaos & Mayhem

Kitties – now more judgmental than evah!