- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA comics/nonfiction, best out this week, queer historical fiction, YA)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- A very heartfelt post about reading LotR for the first time.
- Comic about libraries.
- Haunting ficlet.
- There will be The X-Files and Wallace & Gromit LEGO sets!
- Horchata inspired Oreos.
- Very cozy.
- Barbie house, but guaranteed to get hit by hurricanes and such.
- Parts of it are castle-esque.
- The lighting is terrible and it’s hard to tell what the house looks like beyond all the art, but other than that!
- The wallpaper in the half bath is very meta.
- The little round blue sink in the kitchen bothers me.
- Monastery vibes.
- Perfect if you want to live someplace ornate.
- A very unusual property.
- I wish they hadn’t painted the kitchen cabinets.
- Hack job remodel of this poor late MCM.
- Really hope they sealed their Scrabble tile bathroom floor.
- Who needs a complete railing anyway?!
Harry keeping an eye on SOMETHING.
Polly grooming her leg, as one does.
We’re pretty over the top today!
I love that adorable little Creole cottage.
Wallace and Gromit LEGO?!?? ????
OMG, that essay on reading LOTR for the first time really hit hard. And yes… there’s a big (and needed) focus on healing throughout the book. I never really realized it as a kid; it was a fun time to read about elvish food, for example. But it’s a huge part of why I can’t enjoy much epic fantasy these days: there is NO TIME TO REST AND HEAL. Modern epic fantasy writers really need to go back to the classic and remind themselves of what it was that makes LOTR such a ground-breaking book even all these years later.
I actually like that Barbie house, but I don’t want to live in Galveston. I also rather like that Frank Lloyd Wright house (I can live with the weird blue kitchen sink) but I don’t want to live in OK, either.
That monastery-ish house in the Berkeley hills is lovely, but I can’t think of enough people I would want to share it with in order to be able to afford it. Plus, the view is great, but I’m not sure it’s worth the fire risk…
I liked the outside of the sort of castle, but not really the inside. So brown