Bookity

• New releases: Book Riot (audiobooks, YA), Tor.com (YA SFF, genre-benders, SF, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Book “recommendations for comfort and solace” from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Roald Dahl quotes.
• “Stephen Colbert made a children’s book out of tRUMP’s post-Hurrican Florence comments“.
• A portable, distraction-free writing device…
• Llama bookmarks and more.
• What are books?
• Cute bookstore in Duluth, MN.
• The story of a background Gryffindor.
• A humorous bit in which James Potter pretends to be the amateur magician that his brother-in-law Vernon Dursley told people he was.
• Harry hatches a basilisk.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• “…“
• “Conspiracy theories around the ‘Presidential Alert’“.
• “How to delete your Facebook account: A checklist“.
• NASA: 60 Years in 60 Seconds.
• “ALL.”
• Sometimes you just need a little Mr Rogers.

Cookity

• Slow cooker coconut lentil curry.
• Slow cooker taco-stuffed potatoes.
• 10 easy apple recipes.
• 18 fall cakes.
• Soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting.
• Cinnamon chocolate pecan pie cookies.

Gluten Free

• Brown sugar shortbread cookies.
• Soft chocolate wafer cookies.
• Pumpkin swirl bread.

Artsy Crafty

• Crochet flowers.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.

Cool

• On growth.
• To remember.
• Black kitty fabric!
• Minnesota in apples.
• Tettegouche State Park.
• “A Cartoonist’s Advice” from Bill Watterson.
• “Full-Body Education” comic.
• “A necromancer falls in love with a healer…“
• Poltergeists help a single mom raise her young son…
• What if Clark Kent’s coworkers at the Daily Planet thought he was an illegal immigrant from somewhere else on earth?
• Be kind.

Cool or Wha…?

• Watching grass grow.
• Moss art.

Wha…?

• Carve a pineapple for Halloween.

LOL

• Camera as toy for lion cubs.
• Cute cat costume cartoon.
• So many questions!
• Groaner of a space joke.
• “Foxes are cat software being run on dog hardware“.
• Biomagnification.
• Life hacks from a while ago…
• The strange fusion of Magic 8-Ball and DnD.
• “The sole reason I still have a Twitter is to watch Chris Evans drag Donald tRUMP.”
• Underrated tweets.
• xkcd on incoming calls. (Hover cursor/long-press to read the caption.)

Teh Cute

• Baby red panda! Red panda and baby!

Reading Update for the Past Two Weeks
Free Agent, Soul Ink, Armageddon Rules, and Wish Bound (Grimm Agency #1, #1.5, #2, #3) by JC Nelson. Ok paranormal/fairy tale series about a woman whose parents sold her into indentured servitude working for the Grimm Agency. (I know, that’s amazingly unhelpful even by my reviewette standards, but pretty much anything else I can say would be a spoiler.) On the plus side, this is a completed series! It won’t drag on forever! 😀
No Hero and Yesterday’s Hero, and Anti-Hero (Arthur Wallace 1-3) by Jonathan Wood. Pretty good series about a cop who ends up in a secret British government agency (dealing with the paranormal) after he sees too much at a crime scene. Maybe it’s the nature of books that use Lovecraft’s concepts and characters, but this reminded me an awful lot of the Laundry Files by Charles Stross. And no one’s injuries really seem to linger past the time when they’re incurred.
Bookburners: The Complete First Season by Max Gladstone et al. 3.5 stars. Good paranormal suspense about a secret organization funded by the Vatican who travel the world confiscating dangerous magical texts. This was originally released serially – I would’ve hated to read it that way. I also think the serial thing contributed to this book’s heft (800 pages) – it could definitely stand to be trimmed down a bit.
Hot Lead, Cold Iron and Hallow Point (Mick Oberon 1-2) by Ari Marmell. Good mystery/urban fantasy series set in 1930s Chicago about private investigator (and member of the Fae) Mick Oberon. He tries to avoid mob-related jobs, but…
Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours by Alex Nall. Very good comic story about a teacher having a rough time who turns to Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood for calm and wisdom.
Mid-Century Portable Typewriters: Spotter’s Guide by Nick Bodemer. The book only has 13 typewriters in it. While there are many blank pages included for notes, fewer blank pages and more content/more typewriters would make this a much more useful reference.

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“….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos (on the left – you can see his greying whiskers over his body) & Mayhem (under the blanket)

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!

• Season(s) of Depression.
• Patterns.
• “Blackout” poetry.
• Type, circle, prophecy.
• Season of Words.
• Care less, 70s glow, happy?, stress brake.
• Back to school.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

Well, the migraine’s actually more or less gone, but the brain fog lingers… Let’s meet back here next week and see how it goes then, eh?

“I sure don’t remember signing any forms to allow you to take my picture, Mom!” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Despondent stick figure.
• “a time for every purpose“
• “How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!“
• Language clutter weird.
• Experts stamps numbers.
• Quotes.
• Art surprise movement.

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“Birdbirdbirdbirdbirdbirdbird!” -Mayhem

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• 10 online tools for authors.
• Roald Dahl’s Matilda at 30. (via The Mary Sue)
• Possible secret magical creature heritages of some Harry Potter characters.
• Bookish cross stitch patterns.

Think, Learn, Make, Do

• On doing “something you feel good about doing”.
• Read the whole thing.
• “Discover NASA technology in your life”.
• “All unwanted pregnancies are caused by the irresponsible ejaculations of men.”
• “This app will terrify you into wearing sunscreen”.
• Octopuses on Ecstasy.
• “Obama and Biden had a pact to stay silent on tRUMP, but it didn’t last long“.
• Maybe scientists don’t understand California’s fault lines as well as they thought.
• “Conservatives shook that Willie Nelson isn’t a conservative must have ignored his entire career“. (I mean, he covered “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other”.)

Cookity

• Easy 5-ingredient black bean veggie burgers.
• Easy chicken potstickers.
• 17 easy veggie sandwiches.
• 10 no-lettuce salads.
• 10 easy vegan lunch box ideas.
• 10 Instant Pot recipes for “lazy cooks”.
• Pesto risotto with shrimp for one.
• Bloody Mary scones.
• Slow cooker pumpkin French toast casserole.
• Salted caramel sugar cookies.

Gluten Free

• Classic cheesecake.
• Chocolate chip monster cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.

Cool

• Tiny gryphons!
• “Street typists around the world“.
• Hannah Gadsby at the Emmys.

Wha…?

• Abandoned presidents’ heads.
• Sexy Handmaid Halloween costume.
• “…Presidential alert system that tRUMP will control.” And where to share your thoughts on this…

LOL

• The fiber arts alignment chart.
• Self care.
• Dragons in chairs.
• Warning: PUNS.
• tRUMPkin.

Teh Cute

• Red panda and baby! Baby red pandas!

Reading Update (Brace yourselves – have I mentioned that I read really, really fast when I’m in a reading mood??! It’s safe to say I was in a reading mood this week.)
The Watercolor Sketchbook Kit by Curtis Tappenden. I only have the book part of the kit ($1.49US at a thrift store), but it was an enjoyable overview of watercolor basics. You’d best look elsewhere if you want something that goes into detail.
Memory Zero, Generation 18, and Penumbra (Spook Squad 1-3) by Keri Arthur. Decent paranormal fantasy trilogy about a police officer who doesn’t remember anything about her life before age 14. Then everything in her life is turned upside down when it suddenly seems as if nearly everyone is out to get her. Delightfully free of sex (but not sexual tension), I wish things had been tied up a little more at the end of the third book. (The books were originally released in 2004/5, then rereleased with new covers a decade later.)
Detective Stories and Cry Wolf (Rivers of London 4-5) by Ben Aaronovitch. Good additions to the series – and I really appreciate the timeline in the back of these that shows you where each of the graphic novels fits with the other books.
Dirty Magic, Cursed Moon, Deadly Spells, and Fire Water (Prospero’s War 1-3, 0.5) by Jaye Wells. Good series about a cop who, as teenager, walked away from her life as the heir to a branch of the magical equivalent of the mob. She’s sworn off magic, but her fellow (non-magical) officers don’t really trust her. And then she gets a chance to work with the MEA – the federal Magical Enforcement Agency.
The Brimstone Deception, The Ghoul Vendetta, and The Myth Manifestation (SPI Files 3-5) by Lisa Shearin. Pretty good paranormal romance series about a Southern seer who works as an agent for Supernatural Protection and Investigation in New York City. Her boss is a vampire, his boss is a dragon, and her wanna be boyfriend is a goblin dark mage.

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“One fish, two fish, red fish, NIP FISH!” -Chaos