Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “The Mother of All Squids Builds a Library”.
• “Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare exists and you need it“.
• Memoirs from former Obama staff members.
• “Reflections on the Typewriter Project“.
• 23 fantasy series for adults.
• 30 things you can make with an old book.
• Bookish tote bags.
• If you’re considering participating in Inktober 2018 and are looking for book-themed prompts, here you go.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• Maybe it’s just plastic that’s the problem, eh?
• “Jet hand dryers are basically germ cannons, study finds“.
• This would be a most startling thing to haul in when fishing!
• It’s the 25th anniversary of The X-Files.
• “Celebrating the real-world ‘Scully Effect’“.
• “What can we learn from the universe’s baby picture?“
• “What if English were phonetically consistent?” (Could go in humor, too, but hey.)
• On toxic online communities.
• tRUMP tROLL.
• Thank you, President Obama.

Cookity

• 10 chili recipes.
• 10 ways to use a can of white beans for dinner.
• Smashed chickpea salad.
• Cauliflower pizza with lemon-infused tomatoes.
• Breakfast grain bowl mix.
• One-bowl apple bundt cake.
• Convertible chocolate cupcakes.

Gluten Free

• “Fudgy vegan banana-brownie cake you can eat for breakfast“.
• Pumpkin carrot cupcakes.
• Apple cake.
• “Wheat” thins crackers.

Artsy Crafty

• If you cat does poorly with a cone, maybe you need to make them a onesie.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.

Cool

• “Dotted line“.
• Montages from Twin Peaks.
• The Curiosity Rover’s selfie.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Well, that’s a little disturbing, actually.

Wha…?

• Just say no to roast-beef scented baths.
• Pumpkin spice latte deodorant.
• You can buy a 3-pound bag of cereal marshmallows and skip dealing with any actual cereal (see Lucky Charms).

LOL

• Oh, those darn automatic responses…
• Hmm. Apparently I was too busy reading (see below) to find anything funny this week.

Teh Cute

• Black kitty! Zebra and baby!

Reading Update
Typewriter: A Celebration of the Ultimate Writing Machine by Paul Robert & Peter Weil. Really interesting look at the early days of the typewriter, focusing on the amazing number of typewriter-related patents granted and the equally amazing number of typewriter companies that went bankrupt.
Soft Summer Blood (DI Liam McClusky #4) by Peter Helton. Cranky about how the book ended. And if this is how the series ends… Hmph.
Known Devil (Occult Crimes Unit Investigation #3) by Justin Gustainis. Ok paranormal thriller about a cop and his vampire partner trying to figure out what’s happening with a vampire mobster gang war.
The Eidolon by Libby McGugan. Good scifi suspense about research scientist whose project is suddenly and inexplicably shut down, right before he’s approached by a very mysterious figure with a job offer that seems too good to be true.
The Cracked Spine, Of Books and Bagpipes, A Christmas Tartan, and Lost Books and Old Bones (Scottish Bookshop Mysteries 1, 2, 2.5, & 3) by Paige Shelton. Pretty good mystery series about an American archivist who moves to Edinburgh to work in a very unusual bookstore. I’m having a bit of trouble suspending my disbelief at the amateur sleuth angle in this series and am concerned about spraining an eyeball from all the eye rolling I’ve been doing.

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“I’ve been looking and looking, but I just don’t see this ‘typewriter case’ you keep mentioning, Mom. It’s a mystery, I guess.” -Mayhem