Contest(s)

• Becky Black is giving away an ebook copy of her forthcoming m/m scifi romance, The Champion’s Secret. Closes 7 am UK time, April 28.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Lots and lots of bookity linkity from Book Riot.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille.
• Dear Author on “becoming a more mindful book consumer”.
• Fiction Vixen on “keepers” and rereading.
• Read an unpublished passage from A Wrinkle in Time. (via The Mary Sue)
• Some journaling secrets and tips from Paperback Writer.
• The British Library.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• “101 amazing facts everyone should know“.
• Pantone has released its new color: Minion Yellow. (via Tor.com)
• A visual history of hockey jerseys.
• “How to survive a trip to IKEA without dumping your partner“.
• Tips and tools for making better tea.
• Do not eat any products from Blue Bell Creameries.
• “Households earning $75,000 eat out too much to save any money“.
• A freshly discovered frog species looks like Kermit the Frog.
• Download and/or delete your Google history.

Cookity

• Roasted vegetable lasagna.
• Fresh herb chicken casserole.
• Cottage cheese muffins with roasted red peppers and feta.
• Chocolate banana crumb cake.
• Chocolate-dipped seed cookies.
• Creme brulee bars. (via The Kitchn)
• Carrot cake cookies with coconut cream cheese frosting. (via maderr)
• Rhubarb simple syrup.

Gluten Free

• Flourless almond and coconut cake.
• Hostess-style crunch donettes.
• Pineapple upside-down cake.
• Strawberry tart.
• Yogurt-coated chewy strawberry granola bars.
• Dinner rolls.

Crafty

• Knit a cowl inspired by Yara from Game of Thrones.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Hubble Telescope nebula fly-through.
• Star Wars jet. (via wilwheaton)
• The new Star Wars trailer in LEGO.
• Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer in LEGO.
• Apollo 13 astronauts and crew as LEGO minifigs.
• Short film about doodling.
• Short film of New York City.
• NSFW tribute to 120 years of movies.
• You can search for the Loch Ness Monster via Street View.
• Giant sword monument in Norway.
• Corvidae paintings by Lindsay Kustusch.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• A gizmo that “turns your thumb nail into a track pad“.
• S’Mores Frappuccino.
• Star Wars-branded duct tape.
• 2D cartoon backpacks. (via maderr)

Wha…?

• Taco cannon.
• Ben & Jerry’s… beer. (via The Kitchn)
• “Everything you need to know about octopus wrestling“.
• “John Deere wants to be able to file copyright claims against the way you use your tractor“.

LOL

• Hockey players and their equivalent musical acts/artists.
• “20 emojis all Minnesotans wish existed“. (via stuffaboutminnesota)
• A little geeky coding humor. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Skeery rug!

Teh Cute

• Zebra and baby! Baby llama! Lamb! Baby clouded leopard! Baby bobcats! Quoll! Snoring hummingbird!

Reading Update
Art for Kids: Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You’ll Ever Need to Be the Artist You’ve Always Wanted to Be by Kathryn Temple. Good basic overview of a wide variety of drawing concepts. I’ve tried a few of the exercises in my sketchbook and plan to try a few more before returning this book to the library.
The Gluten-Free Revolution: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know about Losing the Wheat, Reclaiming Your Health, and Eating Happily Ever After by Jax Peters Lowell. DNF. Not going to rate this. I didn’t realize it was the third edition of Lowell’s Against the Grain: The Slightly Eccentric Guide to Living Well Without Gluten or Wheat, which was a really important read for me after I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 1997. Lowell’s no-nonsense, seize-the-day attitude was so completely different from every other book about celiac and the gluten-free diet – it was refreshing and freeing. But I’m in a very different place now with the gluten-free diet and this time Lowell’s style was just rubbing me the wrong way.

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