The (more or less) bookish edition o’ links

If you want in on Jenn’s baby pool contest, head on over and submit your guesses!

Eileen is celebrating her birthday with a contest – leave her a comment with the funniest or most touching story you have connected with the fiber arts. (If you aren’t a crafter, it can even be a story about receiving that lurid amazing sweater from your grandmother when you were a kid.) Leave your comments by September 24.

I don’t think this is any weirder than Chaos loving popcorn…

I highly recommend Chappysmom’s new knitting book review blog, Knitting Scholar – her reviews are very organized and well-written.

I know that I’ve mentioned (in my reading updates) that I had a lot of trouble with how passive Bella is in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. Author Lilith Saintcrow had some of the same issues with Twilight, but was much more eloquent than I! I agree and hope that teens reading the series don’t consider Bella an acceptable role model…

Through Saintcrow’s post, I discovered a new (to me) and interesting blog: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.

*blink blink* I guess I’ll let this next blog speak for itself: Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog: Go England! It ys Rad!

Remember the captioning contest I won? The prize, it haz arrived:

And I love the inscription!

Reading Update
The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong. It took a while for me to get into this young adult paranormal fantasy and then it had a cliffhanger ending. Grr.
Hot Ice; Irish Hearts: Irish Thoroughbred / Irish Rose (apparently Irish Thoroughbred was her first published work and it does show a bit… but I was sniffling at the end of Irish Rose!); Brazen Virtue; Sanctuary by Nora Roberts. 🙂
Something from the Nightside, Agents of Light and Darkness, Nightingale’s Lament, and Hex and the City (The Nightside, Books 1-4) by Simon R. Green. Hardboiled detective urban fantasy horror noir, set in the dark heart of London, where it’s always 3 am…
It Happened One Knife (A Double Feature Mystery) by Jeffrey Cohen. The second mystery in this witty series about a guy who owns a comedy movie theater in New Jersey is as good as the first (Some Like It Hot Buttered).


“Please, Mom, if you have a shred of feline decency, let those poor people head into the weekend without any more links!” -Mayhem

33 thoughts on “The (more or less) bookish edition o’ links”

  1. I love the cat eating the oatmeal link. I had a cat that LOVED Cheez-Whiz. He went apeshit over it. Chewy likes to lick my arms…perhaps he likes the salt? My dad’s old cat was ga-ga for olives, too. He got out once (he was an indoor cat) and we lined up olives on the porch and he was back within seconds.

  2. I’ve got 2 popcorn lovers; it makes my netflix watching a very active activity. And, it may explain why I have a really hard time knitting while watching movies – I’m busy protecting the popcorn!

  3. Yeah, got caught in the twilight links… I read the books and enjoyed them well enough, but didn’t really like either Bella or Edward all that much. Much to the dismay of my son! You put up a link to bookwyrm, and I won that book, and talk about a trashy good book… I want the rest of them!

  4. Ok. Seriously CREEPY! Cosmo loves loves loves popcorn. I have caught him in my bowl, his head in the bag, etc etc. Sadly, he can no longer have any, so I rarely have popcorn anymore (now I buy those tiny single serving bags, b/c I know I’ll finish it and not leave popcorn around to tempt my diabetic kitty).

  5. Lisa – the rest of the Darkyn are good too! Though I think Chris isn’t as thrilled with them as we are… 🙂

    Mayhem, darling, no matter how many links there are, your picture overshadows them all.

    And Chris, have you read Laura Anne Gilman’s Retriever series? I don’t remember… but if not, I think you’d enjoy it. I’ve read the first few, and really like them so far.

  6. Chris- What links?

    That’s great, having a signed copy. I have Kaffe Fassett, Debbie Bliss, Alice Starmore, Shirl the Purl- and some local fiction authors.

    You may stand in my aura!

  7. We like the links! I’ll have to check many of them out this weekend, but I’ll always come to see May and Chaos.

    I read the first Twilight book and had the same problems you did. Plus his watching her sleep every night was just too creepy. A friend, a mother of a teenage girl, says that is what those girls find so romantic. Yikes!

    Have a great weekend!

  8. That’s a fabulous LOL inscription.

    Isn’t the GC Extreme Blog hilarious? Evidently GC has been kicked out. 🙂

    Mayhem, you look like you might be about to time travel! Quick! Grab a toy!

  9. I’m reading the first Twilight book…not too far into it though. I feel kind of silly reading a teenager’s book, but then again I’ve read Harry Potter. Mayhem’s face…yikes! I love your noroesque socks, too by the way. They are beautiful.

  10. My sister had a cat that loved popcorn. He even burned his whiskers trying to get popcorn from a pot on her gas stove. Katie on the other had loves homemade whole wheat bread and whole wheat crackers. Yes, she prefers whole grains.

  11. What do you, or perhaps more importantly, Chaos and May, think of the Mrs. Murphy mysteries by Rita Mae Brown? I’ve just started one now. I bet our cats could star in the films any day!

  12. Lets see – Chester enjoys popcorn, blue corn tortilla chips, beer, especially LOVES cheese, honeydew melons, and anything meaty. Whatever is on your plate will do also (including spicy indian food, really!). He’ll try to eat it out of your hand too.

  13. My cats like oatmeal, too–of course, it’s usually mixed with salmon or tuna. *giggle* I did have a cat that loved raisins, though.

    The Chaucer blog–very funny!

    And I love your prize! =)

  14. Thanks for listing my contest – and for linking to the Saintcrow and Consumerist blogs, which are very interesting. Always a joy to read your posts!
    🙂

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