Reading Update
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela & Sophie Standing. Cute short comic that combines some stats and some personal stories.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. This was very good – I liked how she split topics into chapters (for easy reference later), and she covered some things I hadn’t seen covered in my previous reading.
Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim #11) by Richard Kadrey. A solid addition to the series. Was Stark more socially awkward in this than usual?!

“Shake my paw?” -Chaos

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October 9, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Reading Update
The Unkindest Tide (October Daye #13) by Seanan McGuire. At last we find out what the Luidaeg has been darkly hinting at regarding the Selkies!
Witches of Lychford, The Lost Child of Lychford, A Long Day in Lychford, The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Witches of Lychford 1-4) by Paul Cornell. I was kinda sucked into this series of novellas until the fourth book ended with a cliffhanger. HULKSMASH.

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem and Chaos

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Actual linkity before my next class starts on October 8

October 2, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Bookity

New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more. And even more. Cover snark. And more!
Linkity from the Pen Addict. And more. And even more.
How much ebooks cost libraries.
RBG!
Wise words from Nora Roberts on work-life balance.
A micro-SFF story.
Medieval manuscripts and strange beasts.
Librarian humor.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

Life in These Pandemic Times

WaPo’s new “wearing a mask” faq.
Well, they’re not wrong – but you’ll need a mask under that mask.
Sloths and dolphins.
Very 2020. VERY 2020.
Is it even a contender?
2020 in photos (tw blood).
2020 in photos from around Minneapolis. (No blood!)
“Using art to give simple information…on COVID-19“.
“Are you also having the mask dream?” (I’ve had at least one.)

Cookity

19 vegan soups.
26 easy tofu recipes.
40+ squash recipes.
30 apple desserts.
Sweet potato snickerdoodles.
Black midnight cake.
Strawberry spinach cake. (via gilajames)

Artsy Crafty

Cool

Short film about bickering spaceships.
Escaping.
Living with a demon (NOT about Good Omens, strangely).
Humans and reality bender infestations (NOT a reference to 45, strangely).
:chewing faster:
Linkity from BookwyrmKnits.
Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

“Mark Hamill and Sir Patrick Stewart do a truly surreal commercial“.

Wha…?

LOL

Spooky cute.
Feral scientists.
Chatting live with other shoppers at Michael’s.
Naturalists and the fae.
Zoom gothic.
Screaming Roomba. (colorful language beware)
IKEA.
Weird questions.
Curse the special place!

Teh Cute

Tapir and stripey baby! Black panther!

Reading Update
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (10th Anniversary Edition) by Michelle Alexander. Very powerful. Very tragic. Completely enraging.
Imaginary Numbers (InCryptid #9) by Seanan McGuire. Well, there IS a bonus novella at the end, but the main story ends in a cliffhanger and the next book isn’t out until late February 2021. Grr.
Temporally Out of Order edited by Joshua Palmatier. I checked it out for the Seanan McGuire short story, but I ended up enjoying nearly all of the stories in this collection.
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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. Totally sucked me in!
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. WOW. I liked this a lot more than The Night Circus. Still won’t swear that I understood all of it!

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MOM???” -Chaos

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September 25, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

Reading Update
The Phoenix Files (SPI Files #6) by Lisa Shearin. I’m not exactly sure why I read this, other than the ebook was checked in at my library…
In Truth and Claw (Mick Oberon #4) by Ari Marmell. I tried, but I only got a few pages in and realized I wasn’t interested in continuing this series.
To Kill a Mocking Girl (Bookbinding Mystery #1) by Harper Kincaid. Sometimes a cozy mystery hits the spot.
In an Absent Dream, Come Tumbling Down, Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children 4-5, 1) by Seanan McGuire. Tore right through In an Absent Dream and then had to go back and reread the first book because I didn’t remember who Lundy was. D’oh. Then zoomed through Come Tumbling Down, too. Whew!
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine. Powerful. Moving. Insightful. Painful. Definitely rereading it. I watched her interview with Kerri Miller of Talking Volumes (Virtual) (MN Public Radio) and took a couple pages of notes during it.

“Please put the camera away, Mom. I’m serious.” -Mayhem

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September 11, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

Reading Update
Citizen: A American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. I am not sure I understood it all, but what I did understand packed a wallop.
Dead Things, Broken Souls, Hungry Ghosts, Fire Season, and Ghost Money (Eric Carter 1-5) by Stephen Blackmoore. Entertaining series set in LA about a necromancer who’s been away for 15 years but returns after his sister is murdered. Warning that the 4th and 5th books end on cliffhangers. GRRRRRR. Also, Fire Season hits pretty hard with the fires in California right now.
City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore. Sort of a prequel for the Eric Carter series, but set before Eric Carter returned to LA.

Chaos is SO over being photographed, apparently!

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Linkity will become particularly unpredictable over the next two months

September 4, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

I’m taking several virtual book arts classes in September and October that are on Thursday evenings, so do not be surprised if there’s no linkity or only the most minimal of linkity. On the plus side, by the end of October, I will only need 3.5 more “graduate” credits to completed my Advanced Book Arts Certificate through the Minnesota Center for Book Arts! 🙂

Bookity

New releases: Tor.com (scifi, fantasy, horror/genre benders, YA SFF) and Smart Bitches (romance)
Allie Brosh (Hyperbole and a Half) has written a second book, due out on September 22.
Linkity from Smart Bitches.
Linkity from the Pen Addict.
A virtual exhibition of the book arts.
A refresher on what “gnu terry pratchett” means.
In which JKR somewhat misrepresents “returning” the Ripple of Hope.
How wizards get discovered??
“You work as the minor villain every new hero has to beat for their very first battle“.
THE most florid sentence?
“Great lost sentences“.
“A librarian’s hoard“.
…well, it’s not WRONG, I guess.

Think, Learn, Make, Do, VOTE

Life in These Pandemic Times

Cookity

Artsy Crafty

Cool

Cat as liquid.

Wha…?

“Throne of Jeans“.

LOL

The experience of changing your password, perfectly captured.

Reading Update
Finna by Nino Cipri. What if you worked at IKEA and a wormhole opened up during your shift? A fun and thoughtful short novel based on that premise (and more).

“Yes, I AM still exceptionally beautiful, thank you!” -Mayhem

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Linkity certainly feels depleted

August 28, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

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Think, Do, Make, Learn

Life in These Pandemic Times

2020 summary.
Good point about The Shining!
The sixth photo! (Thanks, Jeanne!)
“Social distancing is a lot more complicated than staying 6 feet apart”.
Yes, this.
“Your ‘surge capacity’ is depleted – It’s why you feel awful“.

Cookity

Reese’s campfire cup s’mores. (via The Kitchn)

Cool/Oh Yeah

Cool or Wha…?

Wha…?

LOL

Reading Update
How To Be Alone by Tanya Davis & Andrea Dorfman. Adorable illustrated book version of the video poem.
A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow. Very good ya contemporary fantasy about two magical sisters-of-the-heart growing into powers that may further mark them as feared others.
How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming.

Chaos cannot believe!

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August 21, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

So you get disorganized speed linkity! Well, I did make ONE section. You’ll see…

Wha…?

“Don’t make me come over there and smack you!” -Chaos

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August 14, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

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Think, Do, Learn, Make

Life in These Pandemic Times

Cookity

Gluten Free

Vanilla mug cake.

Cool

Cool or Wha…?

The song “Eleanor Rigby” as a very creepy comic.

Wha…?

Dumpster fire light-up vinyl figure.
45 “brags he’s trying to sabotage the postal service to rig the election”. Wait, didn’t everyone see this coming?! Related – “Ode to Putin”.
Creepiest “wings” ever. Cannot be unseen.
Lil’ Nitro.

LOL

Teh Cute

“Cockatoo socializing with vet staff“! Pallas’s kittens!

Reading Update
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia. Very good novel with elements of the supernatural. It reminded me a bit of The Westing Game.
The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick. A mousy woman inadvertently begins a life changing journey as she tries to find out the story behind a mysterious book that appears to have been written by her grandmother, but with an impossible publication date.

“If my eyes ARE looking in two different directions, it’s rude to point it out, Mom!!!” -Mayhem

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August 7, 2020 Chris 5 Comments

Bookity

New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) and Tor.com (YA SFF)
Cover snark.
Linkity from Smart Bitches.
Linkity from the Pen Addict.
“Kurt Vonnegut Jr: Life struggles on a typewriter”.
George RR Martin’s Hugo hosting FAIL.
On the appeal of HP Lovecraft.
Book-related washi tape.
Book stands.
How book lovers can support the USPS.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

Life in These Pandemic Times

Some reasons for our COVID exhaustion.
It’s perfect. 😀

Cookity

Gluten Free

Cool

Wha…?

:headdesk:

LOL

Reading Update
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge. It took me a while to get into this one, but then I zipped through the last couple of chapters and the “Aftermath”. I appreciated the insight into racism in Britain and the author’s in-depth dissection of white feminism (vs intersectional feminism).
The Arrangement: A charity art book inspired by Good Omens by Basil (FopDoodles). A quick one, as it was mostly fanart, with just a few textual bits.

*DERP* to the nth power…

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Whirlwind linkity of whirlwindiness

Actual linkity before my next class starts on October 8

A little light’n’fluffy linkity to tide you over

Whirlwind linkity!

Linkity will become particularly unpredictable over the next two months

Linkity certainly feels depleted

Linkity regrets to inform you that it was server update night again

Linkity’ got nothing at all for a title this week

Linkity thinks that might be the derpiest photo of Chaos ever

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