Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance) and Tor.com (fantasy, YA SFF, genre benders, scifi)
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Signs at the British Library.
• “English Pronunciation”, a poem.
• “A History of Good Omens“.
• Neil Gaiman on imposter syndrome.
• On why trying to write like Tolkien really means writing like yourself.
• 40 Terry Pratchett quotes.
• “From the Point of View of a Cat” by Karel ÄŒapek.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• Have you ever heard of cartographer Marie Tharp? I hadn’t.
• “The spiciest parts of the full impeachment report“.
• BP gets sued for false advertising.
• “The shocking rise of consumer drug prices“.

Cookity

• Quick chicken and potato curry.
• 12 easy soups.

Gluten Free

• Chocolate kiss cookies, with and without peanut butter.
• Gingerbread loaf.

Artsy Crafty

• Knit a teeny tiny fish.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Lake Superior in winter (in case you’ve forgotten it’s really an inland freshwater sea).
• I would personally be delighted to find a line of snow ducks.
• Felt kitchen.
• My version of the username song meme.

Cool or Wha…?

• Disconcerting photographs.
• Tetris, public service department style.
• IKEA tarot deck.
• Star Wars and Instant Pot.

LOL

• Have an Untitled Goose Christmas!
• Bot tshirt production gone terribly awry in the most deserving of fashions.
• Time cops.
• “How to spot a dragon using an illusion spell“.
• Darby is not a feline mastermind.
• A cat watching a horror movie.
• Decluttering.

Reading Update
Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit by Corita Kent & Jan Steward. One of the best books about creativity I’ve ever read, despite it looking as if it was produced on a photocopier in the 1980s.
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. I’m still not sure how I feel about this one. The POV character is an unreliable narrator who admits she’s a liar right off the bat. She’s also a PI who’s hired to solve a suspicious death at a California boarding school for mages, where her estranged sister teaches. It definitely sucked me in, because I read it in one evening. But right now when I think about the book, it’s like there’s a very small pebble in my shoe – a small but persistent irritation.

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*ignoring* -Chaos

“Oh, geez, how many pictures are you going to TAKE, Mom?!?” -Mayhem