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Linkity returns! Now with even weirder links than usual!

May 7, 2021 Chris 4 Comments

Oh, hello there! Hope everyone continues to be pandemic fine, at the very least?! I am now fully vaccinated and the two weeks have passed. I’ve been “celebrating” by having a few long-delayed routine medical appointments… And I got my hair cut! It was past my shoulder blades – now it skims my shoulders.

New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, horror/genre benders, SF, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (SFF), AAR (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more. And more. And more.
Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
“Dragon journals and bookmarks for book wyrms to add to their hoards“.
“Consider: A fantasy series where the court wizard is treated and portrayed just like an IT guy“.
“Marriage Proposals 102, featuring Mr Darcy“.
“If going anywhere with small children was a magical fantasy novel“.
“Why do I have to wait SO LONG for library ebooks?”
If there were daemons in Discworld.
“Being vaccinated does NOT mean (bookish edition)“.
Shopping in an actual bookstore now.
“The bookshop cat and the pandemic“.
“There is no after“.
“I’m feeling symptoms of ‘cave syndrome.’ Aren’t you?“
A brief history of the school backpack.
Some fancy bees.
On house cats and meowing.
The ugliest orchid.
Some ugly birds.
What football stadiums look like from above.
Neil deGrasse Tyson vs the Steam-umm twitter account.
Parkway Theater drone video.
LEGO Space Shuttle Discovery.
Giant LEGO R2-D2.
Fandom embroidery projects.
Knit yourself a crown.
THIS. And THIS.
Blueberry cookies.
“How to cope with the garden gnome shortage“…
Saturn Devouring His Son… made from balloons… CANNOT BE UNSEEN.
Tiny novelty hands.
Platypus dragon.
March 2020. After the Pandemic. Hover cursor/long-press for captions.
“Vaccine side effect, or have you just been alive for 40 years?“
When 10% of California’s condor population decides to live on your deck.
Menard’s, strangely surreal at times.
The strange intersection of knitting and earbuds.

Reading Update
Not everything, but some of what I’ve been reading…
Across the Green Fields (Wayward Children #6) by Seanan McGuire. Not related to the school at all, but still good. I just wish these had a bit more closure.
The Secret Chapter and The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library 6-7) by Genevieve Cogman. Pretty solid in 6 and then WTF at the ending of 7.
The Last Smile in Sunder City and Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives 1-2) by Luke Elliot Arnold. Good but tragic – these are mysteries set in a world which has lost its magic, which really messed up creatures that relied on magic to live, such as vampires, unicorns, etc.

Harry has very short, sleek fur. Polly’s fur is a bit longer. They both love the windows!

The look of resignation on Mayhem’s face (plus the side-eye she’s giving Harry), compared to the FOCUS on Harry’s face…

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First linkity of 2019

January 4, 2019 Chris 3 Comments

Bookity

New releases: Tor.com (genre benders, YA SFF), Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (SFF), AAR (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches.
Linkity from the Pen Addict.
Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
“How the Lord of the Rings changed publishing forever“.
A bunch of books just entered the public domain. Where to download those books.
“What Mister Rogers taught us about storytelling“.
Have you considered doing a DiscWorld read along this year?
“‘Add more goats’ and other artistic advice from Ursula Le Guin“.
“Today’s aesthetic: 19th century literature where the nominal protagonist doesn’t even show up until you’re 20,000 words in.“
About that time Heathcliffe disappeared in Wuthering Heights.
What if there was a historical fantasy featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini?
Can you picture Arthur Weasley at a Muggle science fair?
When readers go on holiday. (Ebooks make traveling as a reader MUCH BETTER.)

Think, Make, Learn, Do

Cookity

Gluten Free

Artsy Crafty

Cool

Wha…?

This sounds more like a movie than real life, doesn’t it?

LOL

Be careful when ordering bulk crickets.
On catching an escaped cat.
D’oh! Hover cursor/long-press for the caption.

Teh Cute

Otter and babies!

Reading Update
The Mortal Word (The Invisible Library #5) by Genevieve Cogman. Another very good addition to this series. I devoured it in a single sitting.
Zero Sum Game (Russell’s Attic #1) by SL Huang. Ambivalent about this one – I liked it well enough, but the rest of the series isn’t available because it’s being rereleased. By the time they’re all rereleased, I will have forgotten everything about this book.
A Gathering of Magic (Shades of Magic #2) by VE Schwab. I gave up a few chapters in – it just wasn’t holding my interest for some reason.
The Iron Wyrm Affair, The Red Plague Affair, The Ripper Affair, and The Damnation Affair (Bannon & Clare 1-3, 1.5) by Lilith Saintcrow. Very good magical Holmesian steampunk trilogy. Recommended. While The Damnation Affair is nominally set in the same universe, it’s on another continent and features completely different characters.
Beast of Wonder by Lilith Saintcrow. I have no idea what happened in this one. Just HUH?!

Catghan activated!

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The return of linkity!

August 10, 2018 Chris 4 Comments

I’m back! 🙂 My class (printing ephemera on the platen press) was great fun. I printed a LOT of stickers. A LOT.

Bookity

New releases: Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi, fantasy) and Smart Bitches (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
Linkity from Inkophile.
Linkity from the Pen Addict.
“10 minutes with Andy Weir“.
Quotes from and tidbits about James Baldwin.
When 1984 is getting a little too real…
To remember, about fairy tales and life.
DIY book sleeves.
Dragon bookends.
Book holders and stands.
On linguistics in Lord of the Rings (humor).
“Homophones, weakly“.
The Jane Austen board game (humor).

Think, Make, Do, Learn

Cookity

Gluten Free

Artsy Crafty

Cool

Cool or Wha…?

Wha…?

I just…
Motorized handheld dish scrubber.
“1935 Streamlined Car of the Future“.
“Eating beef jerky may be linked to manic episodes in some people“.

LOL

Teh Cute

Baby mountain lion! Soggy black kitten! Baby cheetahs! Leopard and babies! Snow leopard and babies! Baby penguin! Baby red panda! Tiger! Tiger and babies! Baby red pandas!

Reading Update
Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process by Susan G Wooldridge. This was good (it’s bristling with post-it flags), but not as good as Poemcrazy. It does tackle tough subjects, such loss, grieving, and feeling stuck.
The Sketchbook Project World Tour by Steven Peterman & Shane Zucker. A look at pages from Sketchbook Project sketchbooks from all over the world. It was interesting to see what people had done to their books, but also was such a fast read I’m really glad I got it from the library.
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley. Very good first-person tale of 14-year old Jake, who lives on one of the world’s few dragon preserve parks, and who manages to accidentally and irrevocably change his life on his first solo trip into the park. (Dragons are originally from Australia, so think about the implications for dragon physiology. I’ll wait.)
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman. Very good urban fantasy about about a Librarian who gets assigned a very odd trainee on her next world walking mission. (This was recommended by Charles Stross in a post at tor.com about books vaguely similar to the Laundry Files.)
The Masked City (The Invisible Library #2) by Genevieve Cogman. The abruptness of the very close to being a cliffie but not quite ending annoyed me. Fortunately I had the next book checked out already.
The Burning Page (The Invisible Library #3) by Genevieve Cogman. Very good, very thrilling continuation of the series. Kept me up way too late on a work night.
The Lost Plot (The Invisible Library #4) by Genevieve Cogman. Another thriller! This actually felt as if it could be the end of the series. Or not. I think I’d be ok with it ending here.