Bookity
- New releases: Tor.com (sf, fantasy, young adult sff, genre benders) and AAR (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches. More linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- Listen to a free short audiobook horror story by China Mieville.
- Listen/watch Neil Gaiman read a horror story.
- Neil Gaiman on how well received the Good Omens TV show has been.
- A librarian on the Macmillan ebook embargo, which goes into effect today.
- “Neither allegory nor lion: Aslan and the Chronicles of Narnia“.
- “The evolution of dragons in Western literature: A history“.
- On Jane Austen’s writing desk.
- Margaret Atwood knit a Great Auk.
- Non-book gift ideas for readers.
- “Does switching to Comic Sans really fix writer’s block?“
- NaNoWriMo tips from bookwyrmknits.
- Library puns.
- “Tips for surviving an Agatha Christie novel“.
- “It is a lovely day in Ankh-Morpork and you are a horrible goose“. Death and the goose.
Do, Make, Think, Learn
- Remember the Halloween Blizzard of 1991? That photo doesn’t do it justice.
- On gaming, knitting, textile workers, and computer history.
- Anxiety and ADHD.
- What the “perfect” female body has looked like at various points in history.
- “A tribute to Jane Fonda and her 50 years of activism“.
- Tips for packing for emergency evacuation.
- I like the concept of “load-bearing” more than spoons.
- VINDICATED.
Cookity
- 23 kale salad recipes.
- 20 recipes for fall soups.
- One-pot chickpea tomato peanut stew.
- Easiest two-ingredient chocolate mousse.
- Instant Pot bourbon pecan pie.
- Salted honey no-bake peanut butter pie. (via The Kitchn)
- No-bake pumpkin cheesecake bars.
- Apple cider doughnut cake. (via itstartledme)
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- About the Hogwarts Interhouse Nuisance Orchestra.
- It STARTS as a “humans are weird” post…
- Defending a genie charged with “felonious wish-granting”.
- Fancy jack-o-lanterns at the Minnesota Zoo.
- Halloween costume idea: the Edmund Fitzgerald.
- Halloween linkity from kmkat. Linkity from kmkat. More linkity from kmkat.
- Linkity from bookwyrmknits.
Wha…?
LOL
- Lizards and Canada.
- Some things to consider before accepting a quest from a wizard.
- “OMG! A ghost!“
- Laugh your way through the Lord of the Rings movies via sh*tposts.
- Definitely how much of autumn in Minneapolis has been.
- AP English drama and suspense!
Reading Update
- Good Omens fanfic! And the actual Good Omens novel again…
*side-eyeing* -Chaos & Mayhem
Kitties – now more judgmental than evah!
Thanks for linking to my NaNo post! And I found the article about switching to Comic Sans interesting. I’ll have to keep that in mind if I get writer’s block this NaNo. 🙂
I saw those articles about the history or dragons and Aslan as Jesus in Narnia. Neat stuff. And that textiles and computers stuff is so cool. I saw some of the things being referenced when I went to the Computer History Museum a couple years back, but it’s always neat to see.
I love all the Untitled Goose stuff that’s been going around. There were several good Goose and Gardener costumes this year, too. (Sadly I didn’t see them in person, or think of the idea myself. But I found multiple fun pics online.)
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The Lotr post was a letdown :/
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My boys were 6 and 2, respectively. The snow was too deep for the younger one to go trick-or-treating, so he wore his Superman costume and stayed home. The older one’s costume that year was the Wolfman — perfect for a cold Halloween.
Even worse than the monumental snowfall was the plunge into sub-zero temps that followed. Our dock and pontoon boat were still in the water at the cabin; DH asked me if I though he should go up there and pull them out immediately. Clever me said no, it would be okay, it was still too early in the season for the lake to freeze, yada yada. Wrong! By the time he and a friend got there on the following weekend, the boat was frozen in several inches of ice. They had to use a torpedo heater, an axe, and a chain saw to get them out.
A recent post from kmkat..Boo!
Also, that Edmund Fitzgerald-making grandma? She was the elementary principal at my kids’ school here in WI.
A recent post from kmkat..Boo!