Welcome to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. 🙂
*Mayhem’s tail, swishing*
*Chaos, annoyed at being thwapped by said tail*
Reading Update
Dues and Don’ts; 
Gods and Ends; 
Rock, Paper, Scissors; 
Dime a Demon (Ordinary Magic 0.5, 3-5) by Devon Monk. Decent fluffy paranormal romance series about a town called Ordinary, where the gods vacation without their powers.
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection by Ben Aaronovitch. Enjoyable collection of short stories, most (but not all) from Peter’s POV.
*radiating malevolence* -Chaos
Cross your fingers – I’m trying a different plugin for emailing comments because the old one was, um, REALLY OLD and kept preventing WordPress from updating.
Reading Update
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. This is a book to read in bits over time because it is dense and slow going. But I found the Jungian analysis and conclusions fascinating. I got the most out of the chapter on rage and forgiving (if you have trouble getting into the book sequentially, read this chapter first), and the chapter about the underground forest. If you’re a very literal thinker or if you don’t see any value in archetypes, you’re not going to like this book. (I would’ve hated it 25 years ago!)
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos
Welcome to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. 🙂
“No, I don’t need a bigger box, thanks.” -Mayhem
Reading Update
Zen Pencils – Creative Struggle: Illustrated Advice from Masters of Creativity by Gavin Aung Than. Enjoyable graphic novel style book with quotes from creatives such as Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, and Nikola Tesla.
Carry On and 
Wayward Son (Simon Snow 1-2) by Rainbow Rowell. Amusing, absolutely NOT Harry Potter (AHEM) story of Chosen One Simon Snow and the wacky shenanigans he and his friends get up to at their British wizarding school (first book). In the second book, he and his friends visit the US over their university holiday and get up to more wacky shenanigans. Ends tidily, unless you read the epilogue, which sets up a sort of cliffie situation for the next book. Grrrr.
Death and Relaxation, 
Devils and Details, 
Rock Candy, and 
Paper Stars (Ordinary Magic 1-2, 4.1, 4.2) by Devon Monk. Ok paranormal romance series about the chief of police and her sisters (also cops) of Ordinary, Oregon, where the gods go to vacation without their powers.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos and Mayhem
Full lap! 🙂
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Some of my recent favorites are below.
“Not making eye contact until you put your phone away, Mom.” -Chaos
Reading Update
Obviously WAY too long since I put one of these together. D’oh!
This Is How We Fly by Anna Mariano. Good YA fiction about a high school student just trying to survive the summer before senior year without her stepmom melting down at her and leaving again. Her best friend gets her into real-life quidditch.
The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter by Brian Sonia-Wallace. I gave up on this about 1/4 of the way through it. I just didn’t care. Perhaps due to my 2020 mood? Not sure.
Dead Lies Dreaming (Tales of the New Management 1) by Charles Stross. Initially I was disgruntled about this being set in the Laundry Files world with a new set of characters. But then I got completely sucked in after a while, so… :shrugs:
Mark of the Demon, 
Blood of the Demon, 
Secrets of the Demon, and
Sins of the Demon (Kara Gillian 1-4) by Diana Rowland. Ok paranormal series about a police detective who secretly summons demons on the side. But then something goes awry…
The Fey and the Furious (Rivers of London 8) by Ben Aaronovitch. Ok addition to this comic book series.
Silent City, 
Forgotten City, and 
Unholy City (Claire Codella 1-3) by Carrie Smith. Pretty good series about an NYPD detective who’s just returned after 10 months of treatment for lymphoma. (Not sure there will be any more to this series.)
Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook. Good book of poetry with the first half of the book being the poems and the second half being the “remixes” (blackout versions of the poems).
*blep* -Chaos, derpily
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Some of my recent favorites are below.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem
I really don’t think she fits into that Amazon A1 size box, but…
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Some of my recent favorites are below.
“TOO CLOSE! Chaos, you are TOO CLOSE!” -Me
2020 things – I’ll be meeting members of my family in a centrally located parking lot to exchange boxes of gifts with each other in a masked and socially distanced fashion. :sigh:
*put-upon sigh* -Mayhem
