Probably won’t be linkity next week – I’m having double foot surgery on Monday (bunion and tailor’s bunion) and I’m going to take things easy for the rest of the week.
- New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre-benders)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- The 10 most challenged books of 2020.
- “Watch Guy Gavriel Kay’s 2021 Tolkien lecture“.
- Have you been languishing? The fancy word for “pandemic fine”.
- “Service workers aren’t lazy – they just don’t want to risk dying for minimum wage“.
- “Vaccine myths debunked” from Book Wyrm Knits.
- “How to grow loofahs in your garden because holy crap they’re gourds“.
- I… had no idea the complexity of the tricks our brains do to work around physical shortcomings in our vision. 😮
- Gorgeous new stamps from the Royal Mail will “pay tribute to the legend of King Arthur”.
- Learn about photography visionary Anne Brigman.
- “Lovetris, a soothing version of Tetris that always gives you the exact piece you need“.
- On Mark Hamill and voice acting.
- “What if these 8 original Netflix series were turned into Legos?“
- “Strap this beeping robotic third eye to your forehead to help you walk and text“.
- Tumblr gothic.
- xkcd on being vaccinated. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
- A very cute kitten in a cabled sweater.
Reading Update
The Long Way Down, The White Gold Score, Redemption Song, The Living End, A Plain-Dealing Villain, The Killing Floor, The Castle Doctrine, Double or Nothing, The Neon Boneyard (Daniel Faust 1, 1.5, 2-8) by Craig Schaefer. Good series about a small-time Las Vegas magician and thief who gets caught up in a much larger story. You definitely want to bookmark the author’s reading order page for this one, because it’s part of set of interrelated series and things will get confusing if you try to read any one series straight through.
Harmony Black, Red Knight Falling (Harmony Black 1-2) by Craig Schaefer. Good series about an FBI agent and witch who becomes part of a black ops team meant to protect the country from supernatural threats. You need to read it interspersed with the Daniel Faust series, or by Book 9 of the Daniel Faust series, you will be very confused.
Got Luck, Lucky Day, Got Hope, Got Lost (Behindbeyond 1, 1.5, 2-3) by Michael Darling. Good urban fantasy series about a PI who discovers there’s a heckuva lot going on just below the surface of the world than he realized.
Oh, poor stressed Polly!
And poor stressed Harry!
Mayhem is ABSOLUTELY judging you, me, the kittens…
Across the Green Fields (Wayward Children #6)
The Secret Chapter and 
The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library 6-7)
The Last Smile in Sunder City and 
Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives 1-2)
The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion (Haunted Bookshop Mystery #5)
Calculated Risks (InCryptid 10)
On the Wings of War, 
Echo in the Sorrow 
Down a Twisted Path (Soulbound 5-6, 0.5)
Wormwood Summer, 
A Haunting at Midwinter (San Amaro Investigations 1, 0.5)
Hidden, 
Veiled, 
Burned (Alex Verus 5-7) 
A Ferry of Bones and Gold (Soulbound 1)
Bad Moon on the Rise (Six-Gun Shifters 1)
The Alex Verus Novels, Books 1-4
The Rules & Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic (Rules 1) and 
Monster of the Week (Rules 2)
Balancing the Scales (The Twenty-Sided Sorceress 10)
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Slouch Witch, Star Witch, Spirit Witch, Sparkle Witch (The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Magic 1-4)
Crimes Against Magic, Born of Hatred, Infamous Reign, With Silent Screams, Prison of Hope (Hellequin Chronicles 1-4)
The Stolen Letter (Scottish Bookshop Mystery 5)
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)