Bookity
- New releases: Book Riot (audiobooks, YA), Tor.com (YA SFF, genre-benders, SF, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance)
- Book “recommendations for comfort and solace” from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
- Linkity from Inkophile.
- Roald Dahl quotes.
- “Stephen Colbert made a children’s book out of tRUMP’s post-Hurrican Florence comments“.
- A portable, distraction-free writing device…
- Llama bookmarks and more.
- What are books?
- Cute bookstore in Duluth, MN.
- The story of a background Gryffindor.
- A humorous bit in which James Potter pretends to be the amateur magician that his brother-in-law Vernon Dursley told people he was.
- Harry hatches a basilisk.
Think, Learn, Do, Make
- “…“
- “Conspiracy theories around the ‘Presidential Alert’“.
- “How to delete your Facebook account: A checklist“.
- NASA: 60 Years in 60 Seconds.
- “ALL.”
- Sometimes you just need a little Mr Rogers.
Cookity
- Slow cooker coconut lentil curry.
- Slow cooker taco-stuffed potatoes.
- 10 easy apple recipes.
- 18 fall cakes.
- Soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting.
- Cinnamon chocolate pecan pie cookies.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- On growth.
- To remember.
- Black kitty fabric!
- Minnesota in apples.
- Tettegouche State Park.
- “A Cartoonist’s Advice” from Bill Watterson.
- “Full-Body Education” comic.
- “A necromancer falls in love with a healer…“
- Poltergeists help a single mom raise her young son…
- What if Clark Kent’s coworkers at the Daily Planet thought he was an illegal immigrant from somewhere else on earth?
- Be kind.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
LOL
- Camera as toy for lion cubs.
- Cute cat costume cartoon.
- So many questions!
- Groaner of a space joke.
- “Foxes are cat software being run on dog hardware“.
- Biomagnification.
- Life hacks from a while ago…
- The strange fusion of Magic 8-Ball and DnD.
- “The sole reason I still have a Twitter is to watch Chris Evans drag Donald tRUMP.”
- Underrated tweets.
- xkcd on incoming calls. (Hover cursor/long-press to read the caption.)
Teh Cute
Reading Update for the Past Two Weeks
Free Agent, 
Soul Ink, 
Armageddon Rules, and 
Wish Bound (Grimm Agency #1, #1.5, #2, #3) by JC Nelson. Ok paranormal/fairy tale series about a woman whose parents sold her into indentured servitude working for the Grimm Agency. (I know, that’s amazingly unhelpful even by my reviewette standards, but pretty much anything else I can say would be a spoiler.) On the plus side, this is a completed series! It won’t drag on forever! 😀
No Hero and 
Yesterday’s Hero, and 
Anti-Hero (Arthur Wallace 1-3) by Jonathan Wood. Pretty good series about a cop who ends up in a secret British government agency (dealing with the paranormal) after he sees too much at a crime scene. Maybe it’s the nature of books that use Lovecraft’s concepts and characters, but this reminded me an awful lot of the Laundry Files by Charles Stross. And no one’s injuries really seem to linger past the time when they’re incurred.
Bookburners: The Complete First Season by Max Gladstone et al. 3.5 stars. Good paranormal suspense about a secret organization funded by the Vatican who travel the world confiscating dangerous magical texts. This was originally released serially – I would’ve hated to read it that way. I also think the serial thing contributed to this book’s heft (800 pages) – it could definitely stand to be trimmed down a bit.
Hot Lead, Cold Iron and 
Hallow Point (Mick Oberon 1-2) by Ari Marmell. Good mystery/urban fantasy series set in 1930s Chicago about private investigator (and member of the Fae) Mick Oberon. He tries to avoid mob-related jobs, but…
Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours by Alex Nall. Very good comic story about a teacher having a rough time who turns to Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood for calm and wisdom.
Mid-Century Portable Typewriters: Spotter’s Guide by Nick Bodemer. The book only has 13 typewriters in it. While there are many blank pages included for notes, fewer blank pages and more content/more typewriters would make this a much more useful reference.
“….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos (on the left – you can see his greying whiskers over his body) & Mayhem (under the blanket)
Chris- I have never, nor will I ever, have a Facebook account. I realize that Instagram is owned by Facebook but it’s alot of fun.
Have a great weekend.
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Liza Colby!
(Slinks back behind a rock with the other ancient “All My Children” fans.)
I really need to read (& re-read) some more Roald Dahl. Those quotes just reminded me how much I enjoy his prose.
Sometimes I think about deleting my Facebook account. One of these days I will do it. There are so many things I need to retrieve from it first, though, like email addresses for all the friends I had lost touch with and then re-connected with on Facebook. (And that’s the main reason I still have an account…)
Love the cat cartoon / fox software thing / black kitty fabric. So much good cat stuff this time of year.
Lastly, I agree with your description of the Grimm Agency series. It’s “okay”. I really like the concept, but I don’t feel the execution of it was quite as good as I wanted.
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I want that black kitty fabric!
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