No post next week, due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Be well, everyone!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• I have several of Jan Messent’s books just to look at her amazing knitting.
• What pets mean to us.
• Lovely MCM.
• Round MCM.
• Very fancy firehouse conversion.
• Cozy vibes.
• Nice MCM, although it’s another with the tub right by the bed. And the last shower pictured looks like a cleaning nightmare.
• Disappointing castle esque house.
• Round house with photos of before and after they greyed it down.
• An inexpensive floating house that needs work, so maybe it’s not so inexpensive.
• I have to say, I like houseboats better than floating houses, which don’t look like they can actually go anywhere.
• That’s a lot of money for a house that needs a lot of work.
• That’s a lot of plants.
• That’s a lot of plaid.
• Converting these pole barn type buildings into homes is just so weird to me.
• What a disturbing looking house (just based on the outside).
• Adventures in terrible bathroom design.
• Dizziness inducing carpet patterns have no place on stairs.
• At least they look better than what was there before, based on the cement patching.
• Nope.
• Just say no to glass stairs.

Harry and his skully bow tie.

Polly and her Ears of Annoyance.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA fiction, YA nonfiction and comics)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Until November 22, you can get ten free books (a “Getting Free” from the current catastrophe pack, basically) from Haymarket Books.
• Ok, I didn’t know page turners existed until now.
• “Advice for Challenging Times“.
• Little Debbie is selling candles.
• Cozy little floating house.
• Just cute.
• It is indeed a fairy tale compound.
• Nice Tudor in Minneapolis with too much mint green.
• Cute cottage in New Orleans.
• Time capsule MCM.
• Very fancy Baroque townhouse in Minneapolis.
• Pretty good church conversion that needs some color and a dishwasher.
• The attic is interesting, but I like the basement the best.
• If you’ve been looking for an ice palace…
• Besides being too close to the ocean, all the 12-degree angles are annoying.
• Supremely delusional real estate ad.
• Another entry in the delusional landlords category.
• I agree about the cursed bit.
• Nooooo.
• D’oh.
• Do not like the left side.
• Invisible stairs of death.
• WTF.
• Yikes.

Polly kneading (and possibly licking) a fleecy blanket.

Nice air of vague menace, Harry!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer), Book Riot (historical fiction, YA, comics/graphic novels, nonfiction, queer, SFF, BIPOC romance, mystery/thriller, romance), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• “Books Are My Passion” Lego set.
• Very cool mittens.
• “There is hope…“
• Just no.
• Lovely MCM.
• Another lovely MCM.
• This MCM has too much stone for me.
• An MCM with a checkered past.
• Interesting bank conversion, but they sure don’t show much of the kitchen.
• I like the cool tower, but the photos are all at weird angles and there aren’t any interior photos of the tower.
• Big daycare vibes.
• Sorry, I got stuck at the table full of ceramics.
• Really hate the look of this “by the hour” rental.
• That’s the tightest spiral I’ve ever seen on a set of stairs.
• Best for spindly people.
• Hmm.

Mayhem, possibly having an existential crisis, as one does.

Harry (looking vaguely menacing) and Polly!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA epic fantasy, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Some thoughts on Boromir, Aragorn, and bracers.
• Ficlet.
• Comic that’s a bit sad.
• A twist on Rapunzel.
• Try a walking or biking desk instead, I guess.
• The Oregon Trail video game is being made into a movie.
• Castle-esque Tudor. I like it, although the kitchen definitely needs more storage.
• Interesting Art Deco house that needs something to counterbalance all the brown.
• Very colorful. Put a few of those colors back, actually. (Or pass them on to that Art Deco house.)
• Gigantic statuary and a bathtub shaped like a clay pot.
• Just for the record, there aren’t any mountains in St Paul, MN.
• And no railing.
• The micro-railing is darling but useless.
• Tricky.
• Ack!
• Yikes.

Polly!

Harry has a new skully bow tie!

Siblings keeping an eye on us.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, more romance), Book Riot (best out this week, best out last week, YA, YA comics and nonfiction)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. From last week.
• Spooky ficlet.
• Digging into dubious sounding claims.
• Warning signs.
• Animated needlepoint shooting star.
• A View-Master movie?!
• One-pot creamy chicken soup.
• Pumpkin muffins.
• Soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting.
• Nice MCM.
• Interesting MCM in Palm Springs.
• Very cheery!
• My favorite part is the tower.
• Surprisingly nice inside.
• Very eclectic.
• I think that’s probably too many murals.
• The redo is definitely an improvement, except for converting some built-in bookshelves to a wet bar.
• “Unusual, not necessarily tasteful” – includes Bathroom of Extreme Dizziness.
• Must really love faux brick and the dusting thereof.
• I like the built-ins in the bedroom.
• I was too traumatized by the scary tall bookshelves to see anything after.
• Guitar-shaped house.
• Only included because I love the phrase “tower of shower”.
• If you need 27 bedrooms and don’t mind a major rehab project…
• How not to convert an old mill.
• Boring house with a secret.
• You wouldn’t think a hobbit-esque house would be boring, but…
• Just gives me that mall vibe.
• Pantry danger.
• They didn’t even try.
• Huh.
• The “Trippy” poster at the bottom is a nice touch.
• So much bad in one photo.
• Chaotic stairs.
• Creepy.
• Eep.
• No.

Harry vs The Leaf, part one.

Harry vs The Leaf, part two.

Polly sniffing the breeze.

Mayhem sniffing the breeze.

No linkity next week due to a scheduling conflict!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance),  Book Riot (best out this week, Nordic mysteries/thrillers, cozy historical fantasy, YA, horror), Reactor (genre benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A sweet and thoughtful comic.
• An amusing LotR post about Aragorn’s height.
• “Utah book banners…want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges“.
• Exorcist ouija board.
• Pumpkin snickerdoodle bars.
• Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
• Lovely converted church.
• Nicely done jail conversion.
• Made out of interconnected wine barrels!
• Cool, especially if you need a recording studio.
• Cute little place.
• Nice, but having to climb a ladder to the second floor bedrooms is weird.
• Why are there a table and chairs next to a tub?
• I hope whoever has it under contract has a lot of money for renovations.
• These aren’t so bad.
• Give it a minute.
• Mystery stairs.
• It does look more like a bookcase than stairs. And that “railing” is pathetic.

Very Serious Mayhem.

Harry asleep on a fleecy blanket.

Polly asleep on a different fleecy blanket.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (nonfiction, comics/graphic novels, YA, historical fiction, queer, best out in October, SFF, mystery/thriller, romance, cozy comics/graphic novels/manga), Gizmodo (SFF/horror), Reactor (fantasy,  SF, YA SFF)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Very good ficlet.
• Hanna vs Dracula.
• This is the most 80s apartment ever.
• The wood flooring and paneling are amazing.
• Is it just me or do stone showers look like a nightmare to clean?
• An odd Victorian in St Paul. Have we seen it already?
• Sort of castle-esque, but more notable for the heart-shaped pond.
• Really weird.
• Mysterious.
• Ouch.
• Are these repurposed shelves?
• So much wrong with this.
• I have to hope this is an art installation.

Polly, apparently looking into the abyss. Or maybe at some of the “stairs that can kill you” entries!

Some side-eye from Harry.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, romance comics, queer)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cute ficlet.
• Book dragon.
• If you read Terry Pratchett, check out the free Annotated Pratchett File.
• SUCH a cursed beast.
• Complete list of rump’s crimes and such.
• It’s just nice.
• Cute fairy tale-esque house in Berkeley.
• Another cute one.
• Lovely house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• I love all of the storage in the kitchen.
• Have we seen this over-the-top castle house before?
• What a strange MCM – it feels as if it was built without a plan.
• MCM that was featured in Better Homes and Gardens back in the day. In the present, it needs a bit of a facelift and for the gross carpet to be gone.
• Has potential, but needs lots of work.
• I like purple, but this wasn’t really the place for it, especially because they half-assed it.
• This is ridiculous.
• Comparing the realtor’s photoshop with the reality.
• Santa Fe house that is definitely not wheelchair accessible.
• How odd.
• Sigh.
• Whyyyyyyyyy.
• Absolutely not.
• These seem like something Fred Astaire would be carefully dancing down. The rest of us, not so much.
• Agility test.

Polly staring into our souls.

Serious Harry is serious.

Can you guess where Crawley the robovac is??

How about now??

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Reactor (YA SFF/horror), Book Riot (best out this week, SFF, queer SF, YA,
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Ficlet.
• A note from a Gen-Xer.
• Cute!
• Crochet a dragon.
• Remote controlled “crab-walking table”.
• Limited edition gochujang-flavored Spam.
• Limited edition pumpkin pie-flavored M&Ms.
• Gluten-free pumpkin roll.
• Just nice.
• Very unusual late MCM.
• Very colorful, in a good way.
• Also very colorful.
• Cute, but I don’t like the stairs to the loft at all.
• Must love Disney.
• The Bubble House.
• Strange little house.
• Just here to gawk at the glam basement.
• I really, really dislike the faux aged walls in the bathroom.
• My goodness.
• Choices were made, many of them bad.
• Sad “economy ranch style castle”.
• That’s… an interesting strategy.
• Ridiculous.
• Cursed wine cellar.
• This is just weird.
• Huh.
• They look awfully flimsy.
• D’oh.
• Imagine you’re half asleep and going to the washroom in the middle of the night.

Bonded siblings are the best!

They look like they’re posing for school pictures!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (YA comics/nonfiction, best out this week, queer), Reactor (YA SFF, SF, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Video snippet of Terry Pratchett saying he wrote 75% of Good Omens.
• Ficlet.
• Very tiny ficlet.
• A short comic.
• Not your usual superhero comic.
• A comic about OCD.
• The truth about cats.
• Rube Goldberg marble run.
• Knit a druid hood.
• Fun paranormal-themed warning posters.
• Ding Dong cake (based on the Hostess treat, a-hem).
• Pumpkin spice bread pudding.
• Nice MCM A-frame. The stairs to the basement are perhaps inauspiciously located.
• Great MCM, although I have to wonder why Bath #3 isn’t enclosed.
• Decent dome home.
• Very colorful home in LA.
• Must LOVE stenciled walls.
• If you’ve been looking for a place with a 30 car garage…
• Has a $10k/month homeowner’s association fee.
• Barn castle attempt.
• Unusual and confusing.
• Must be this tall to use the microwave.
• D’oh.
• Yikes.
• Tricky.
• Belongs in a horror movie.
• There’s no perceivable depth.

Doesn’t it look like Polly has a halo?!

Harry looking out the window, showing off his naked tummy with his best “Woman, bring me a beer!” pose.