• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A post about clothing that made me think.
• Pumpkin cream cheese muffins.
• Very nice MCM.
• Cute one in San Francisco.
• I love the interior but the exterior gives me quonset hut vibes.
• Interesting late MCM.
• Castle-esque but one story, which seems wrong.
• Work at the bar, live in the upstairs studio.
• Comes with a freshly renovated movie theater.
• This Utah mansion is over the top in a whole new way. Hedge maze, arcade, slides and pipes, trampolines in the ground, hobbit house connected by tunnel…
• A “flounder” house and barn.
• Opulent… split-level ranch.
• This sort of interior color scheme always seems very Bat Cave to me.
• I have to wonder if they took out too many walls during the bad remodel.
• Way too much white. Also, wtf is up with the fireplace in the kitchen? It looks easy to walk into.
• Eeep.
• Yikes.
• Sharp and too thin.
• Whoopsy.
• No.
• Just no.

Harry had a lot to tell me!

Polly with her best school picture smile!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) , Book Riot (YA nonfiction/comics, YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Book Riot.
• Ficlet with a punch.
• “I think of the first draft as an armature.“
• Banana for scale – more knitting related than you might expect.
• Lovely.
• Cute.
• I like this (and not just because of the built-in bookcases).
• Fun NYC town home.
• Pretty nice. Includes an indoor koi pond.
• Partially restored Lloyd Wright house (no typos or missing words in this sentence).
• Potentially a gamer’s paradise, but the grayscale remodel…
• Interior/exterior disconnect.
• Any MCM features this poor house had are long gone, but it DOES have a double shower in the dining room.
• Must love marble and copper (this week’s Las Vegas home).
• They really couldn’t decide what their decorating theme was.
• Whereas these folks definitely had a theme…
• The original isn’t great, but the realtor’s version is definitely worse.
• Hmm.
• Forget the bracket – these look soooo slippery.
• On top of everything else, these look slippery, too.
• No.

Harry with his paw around Polly. Awwww!

Polly staring out the window.

Harry for Talk Like a Pirate Day…

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Reactor (YA SFF/horror), Book Riot (YA horror, horror,  feminist nonfiction, YA, best out this week, YA romantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• What a dangerous sport – who thought automobile polo was a good idea?
• 30 one-pot dinners for fall.
• No-bake chocolate eclair cake.
• Peanut butter cup bars.
• Cute converted shipping container house.
• Nice one in St Paul, MN.
• This has so many bookshelves!
• A bit quirky.
• Castle esque with a very thematic shower curtain in bathroom #3.
• A mansion that’s not horrifically tacky!
• You’re going to need roller skates to get around this place.
• Vision check – the tile in the kitchen is green, right? Not blue?
• Very BLUE.
• Very BRIGHT.
• Very DRAMATIC.
• Perhaps you’ve always wanted a used tour bus?
• Or maybe you’ve always dreamed of owning a swinger’s resort…
• Some unusual choices were made.
• Poorly converted funeral home, but at least all of the creepy stuff is gone.
• You can use the car lift to get your vehicles up to your condo and then park them on your terrace.
• Huh.
• Also huh.
• Mind the gap indeed.
• Mind the drop!
• Definitely terrible.
• That first step is a doozy.
• D’oh.
• No landing except what you’ll be doing after you fall down them.

So much Attitude.

Polly on the move.

Harry!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (witchy, romance, SFF, queer, graphic novels, nonfiction, mysteries/thrillers/true crime, YA, all genres), Reactor (SF, fantasy), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A fascinating story of a very sturdy rose that survived several weeks underwater after Hurricane Katrina.
• An actual Gothic castle tower!
• Cute fairy tale cottage.
• I like this, although the optical illusion bookcases are freaking me out.
• Strange.
• Must be ok with dangerous rock features.
• Personally, I’m glad the creepy figures aren’t included.
• Very gaudy NYC mansion – unsurprising when you see who the owner was.
• “Cold War-era luxury bunker” in Las Vegas.
• Decor that just makes you go “huh”.
• Railings would be good.
• They had space to make them normal!

Polly cannot believe!

Very serious Harry is very serious.