Reading | Stumbling Over Chaos

New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre-benders, YA SFF, fantasy, SF), Smart Bitches (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
Linkity from BookwyrmKnits.
“Ode to the emergency book“.
Coloring pages from NASA. Don’t forget to grab the Exoplanet Travel Bureau coloring book, too.
“Pandemic fine“.
Blueberry hand pies.
Flourless chocolate brownie cookies.
“I’m not a cat.” (But if you want to be a cat on a video call…)
Spinach can send email.
“Candy” mac and cheese.

Reading Update
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix. Very good urban fantasy about a young woman who goes to London for art school, but things get very, very weird before she even attends a class.
Slouch Witch, Star Witch, Spirit Witch, Sparkle Witch (The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Magic 1-4) by Helen Harper. The first one was the best – unfortunately, in each subsequent book, Ivy seemed more and more like a caricature than a character.
Crimes Against Magic, Born of Hatred, Infamous Reign, With Silent Screams, Prison of Hope (Hellequin Chronicles 1-4) by Steve McHugh. Pretty good series about a private investigator/sorceror who woke up tabula rasa a decade ago. Will his slowly returning memory save him from his forgotten past?
The Stolen Letter (Scottish Bookshop Mystery 5) by Paige Shelton. Note to self – don’t bother continuing this series.
Justice Calling, Murder of Crows, Pack of Lies, Hunting Season, Heartache, Thicker than Blood, Magic to the Bone, Dungeon Crawl, River of No Return (Twenty-Sided Sorceress 1-9) by Annie Bellet. Good series about a sorceress who runs a comic book shop in a small Idaho town with an awful lot of shifters in it. She’s trying to lay low and escape the notice of her evil ex (a sorcerer)…

*ignoring me with great focus* -Mayhem

(Mayhem definitely misses Chaos, but I just can’t go there in these photo captions.)

Linkity from Smart Bitches.
Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
“Journaling is much more than keeping a diary“.
An intriguing LotR observation.
An unexpected tale of the tooth fairy.
The Paladin and the dark goddess.
“I just want to say, for the record, the time of the coronavirus pandemic was not a time when America came together.“
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats shares his thoughts at the end of 2020. (His song “This Year” was played over 20 million times on Spotify last year, specifically for the line, “I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me.”)
Both cursed and fun facts about owls.
Harpy eagle cursed image.
“Why you can’t look away from cursed images“.
Speaking of which, this 59 second video of a woman going over her goals for 2020 is tragicomedy and I couldn’t look away. 🙁
Knit some yin-yang kitty socks.
“Eight thrifty uses for excess night“.
Shrimp dragon.
…well, that’s one way to sell a house, I guess?!
I’m with you on this, evill-an.
“Baby cake creep off“.

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, #2) 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.