• New releases: Tor.com (horror & genre-benders, scifi, fantasy, YA SFF), Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best books out this week, mysteries/thrillers, graphic novels/comics, horror, romance, SFF)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• I hope more states ban book bans.
• Time loop ficlet.
• I didn’t see the ending of this ficlet coming.
• Another ficlet!
• “A post about home and moving on“.
• Learn about Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1966 – she had to do so via stealth.
• “Lego recreated a VHS copy of The Little Mermaid from plastic bricks“.
• Virtually visit the various starship bridges of Star Trek.
• :blink blink: (It’s a real product.)
• Disconcerting furniture.
• It works.
• I don’t hate this – it looks cozy and efficient.
• Cool, but too folksy for me.
• Not even close to a tree house.
• As OP notes, you’d need a riding vacuum cleaner.
• Dang, they couldn’t stretch the carpet for that price?
• Has a stripper pole.
• Funky, with dangerous tub steps.
• Converted bank with dubious loft stairs.
• A very large bed and headboard were removed from the main bedroom, leaving a hot mess.
• No one will ever notice!
• “Doesn’t anyone believe in railings anymore?“
• Did they just give up on the bottom stair or what?
• Huh. They look squishy.

Reviewettes
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, edited by Greg Ketter. Pretty good collection of short stories about bookstores. Seemed a little heavy on the horror (do not like), but I enjoyed the stories anyway.
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Vera Wong grows on you until you’re suddenly, unexpectedly fully invested. Recommended.

Mayhem would like me to STOP pestering her.

Harry napping on the kitty hammock.

Polly sees BIRDS!