Anyone who's a friend and can follow along on my personal Facebook page already knows what the "getting prepared" part of my post title means. This week Denis and I brought all our Christmas decorations out of storage, and they're in piles in two rooms of the house. I could've gotten this round-up done last night, but instead I was formulating more holiday plans. If I weren't married and still living alone, I'd consider leaving all my decorations up throughout the year because I love the way the house looks and feels when it's all gussied up for the holidays. Denis already knows I can be a bit eccentric, but I'd rather not have such visible proof past Twelfth Night!
Some of the decorations for my "knitting tree" |
Of course I'll be sharing photos once everything is done, but in the mean time, I'd better go round up those links!
Bookish News & Other Interesting Stuff
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- A television pilot featuring Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch has been given the green light.
- A zoo in Ohio is using a Beagle to detect panda pregnancies.
- I noticed that last week's episode of Criminal Minds included a Dia de los Muertos scene. No bones about it: the Day of the Dead is finding new life.
- Here's a catalog that believes reality can sell clothes better than Photoshop. Somehow, I don't think this would work in the US-- although I wish it would!
- A woman's stolen bike is replaced... but there's a catch.
- This provided a belly laugh one morning: the British Royal Navy has found a very creative way to scare Somali pirates off the east coast of Africa!
- Amazon is now giving early access to Kindle books.
- Independent booksellers don't seem to be jumping for joy at Amazon's new Kindle selling program.
- PBS has a program I'll be watching at the end of November: "How Sherlock Changed the World."
- I love how Margaret Atwood rejects book blurb requests!
- I found this article on how the excavation of Gallipoli is changing our understanding of how World War I was fought.
- From The New Yorker: Talk Not: JFK and the Case for Quiet.
- The battle lines for today's debates were drawn centuries ago by America's early settlers.
- MacKenzie Bezos was not amused after reading The Everything Store.
- Dr. Seuss: the master of the whodunnit.
- I found two interesting articles about a discovered cache of Nazi art treasures.
- Beware: A man in Texas was arrested over an overdue library book.
- Another beware: the lack of quiet time does have an effect on children's reading.
I ♥ Lists
- The results of a recent book blogging survey are in, and they are very interesting indeed: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four.
- These 7 books predicted the future with eerie accuracy.
- 10 lovable things about brick-and-mortar bookstores.
- Top 8 architectural bookshelves
- The 23 best parts of being a book lover
- 14 published novels written during NaNoWriMo.
That's it for this week. Don't forget to stop by next week when I'll have a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure!
I love the little sweaters and can't wait to see your decorations!!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see them either. It's fabulous for me to see it all once everything is done!
DeleteCathy - I love those sweaters!! Just love 'em! How perfect. And thanks as ever for the links. Must see what the Royal Navy is up to...
ReplyDeleteI think you're really going to enjoy what the Royal Navy is up to! LOL
DeleteI love those little sweaters, too. They have beautiful colors and patterns, and I would be tempted, too to display them on a holiday tree.
ReplyDeleteI must go back and read the links, but I had to stop by to commend the sweaters, so creative.
What a lot of work you do for the holidays. I look forward to the photos.
One of the nice things about those little sweaters is that my friend used leftovers from skeins of yarn she'd used to knit socks. I should've sent her my leftovers from various needlepoint projects!
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