---

---

Congrats to Kate, who won Stripped Clean by Ellis Carrington!

Congrats to Helena, who won Taken (Stranded #2) by Andrew Grey! Taken will be released by Dreamspinner Press on October 28.

---

---

Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener. Closes October 31.

• Blodeuedd’s also giving away My Lady Quicksilver by Beth McMaster. Closes November 2. US & Canada.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance/UF)

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• Read a new, free short story (“Samsa in Love”) by Haruki Murakami. (May vanish behind a paywall at some point.) (via Tor.com)

• Links from Paperback Writer to help you with NaNoWriMo.

• Salon with more on the GRs fiasco.

• What would it be like to live on the Little Prince’s asteroid?

• Great definition of fan fiction.

• If you’re an AO3 (Archive of Our Own) user, you can probably relate to this as much as I can…

• Feline reading accessory.

• Truth.

• Famous books with linkbait titles.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• Make your own pumpkin pie spice.

• Cooking ratios to help you rely on recipes less.

• The free shipping minimum at Amazon is now $35.

• Anti-bacterial soap doesn’t clean your hands any better than regular soap.

• US product recalls.

• Braid long hair into a Gimli beard.

• How cats see the world. (via mental_floss)

• A documentary about food allergies in the US from the Discovery Channel. (via the Triumph Dining blog)

• What does your country lead the world in? (Nobel laureates and getting killed by lawnmowers – that’s definitely not going to help my lawnmower phobia any, is it?!) (via Gizmodo)

Cookity

• Healthy pumpkin chocolate chunk energy bites. (via The Kitchn)

• Pumpkin s’mores doughnut muffins. (via The Kitchn)

• Twix candy bars.

• Peanut butter cups.

• Dark chocolate and Earl Grey tea cookies. (via The Kitchn)

• Potato, bacon, roasted red pepper, aged cheddar, and arugula frittata. (via The Kitchn)

• Slow cooked cider beans.

• Creamy pumpkin baked rigatoni. (via CRAFT)

• 20 minute chicken cheesesteak sloppy joe sliders. (via The Kitchn)

• Baked chicken with tomato and garlic. (via The Kitchn)

• Saffron chicken and herb salad. (via The Kitchn)

• Quinoa salad with hazelnuts, apples, and dried cranberries.

• Chunky guacamole salad with tangy vinaigrette. (via The Kitchn)

• Stuffed Hatch green chilies with cilantro-lime yogurt. (via The Kitchn)

• Ajiaco (chicken and potato soup).

• 10 chicken soup recipes.

• 10 slow cooker vegan recipes.

• 8 international slow cooker recipes.

• 7 fall salads.

• Bourbon apple cider. (via The Kitchn)

• Coconut s’mores hot chocolate.

Gluten Free

• Quinoa salad with pears, baby spinach, and chickpeas in maple vinaigrette.

• Peanut butter quinoa with fresh fruit.

• Peanut butter cake mix chocolate chip cookies.

• Pumpkin doughnuts.

• Pumpkin bars.

• Pumpkin brownies with pumpkin spice marshmallows.

• Pumpkin quinoa and chia breakfast cookies.

• Creamy chocolate-coconut pudding.

• Whoopie pies.

Crafty

• Knit a brioche stitch scarf. (via CRAFT)

Cool

• Awesome horse Halloween costume.

• Shocking LEGO news! (Make sure you hover your cursor for additional text.)

• Blade Runner as black and white 1940s film noir.

• 19 geeky quilts.

• Wolverine as Disney princess. (via The Mary Sue)

• Supernatural infographic.

• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• A guy who’s dressing up as Disneyland for Halloween.

• Gandalf the Pink.

• “Camper Van Toaster“…

Wha…?

• Cheese made from human armpit sweat.

• Cake that looks like ramen.

• Thieves stole over 6000 cans of baked beans.

LOL

• *shakes in fear*

• All caps autocorrects.

• If Yelp had trick-or-treat reviews…

• I think that’s Chaos on his head.

• Who could resist that face?!

• Kittens Black and White.

• Boo!

• Wait, what?

Teh Cute

• Panda and babies! Fairy wren! Black kitten! Leopard and baby! Baby caracals! Hawk-eagle! Baby lions! Alpaca and baby! Dolphin and baby! Cats in Amazon boxes!

Reading Update
A Casual Weekend Thing by AJ Thomas. ebook. Good m/m romantic suspense about a San Diego cop who’s on injured reserve when he has to go to Montana to deal with his estranged brother’s death. The characters were enjoyably complex and nearly made up for a few, relatively minor, rough spots in the plot and writing.

Hockey fics. Of course. 🙂

---

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

(Really, I think he’s sleeping with his eyes partially open.)