Another week has sailed by. Denis learned that super glue can work well with pool pump repairs, and he also finished going through all his "stuff" on his side of the office closet. Now we can schedule a pickup to get what we no longer need a step closer to people who want it.
I've finished up some small projects and have almost completed another afghan. I think I want to make sure everyone is nice and warm this winter. (And don't tell anyone... I received a big box of yarn this week, too!)
I've seen several ads on Facebook for things that I would dearly love to have (but don't necessarily need), but after seeing some of the nightmares friends and acquaintances have had after ordering something from a Facebook ad, I've made it a hard and fast rule never to indulge. Naturally, a company is trying to make me break my rule by having some perfect t-shirts and totes. What do you think? Think this t-shirt suits me?
Speaking of perfect, I've lost track but the Phoenix metro area has had at least 34 days of 110°F. temperatures or higher. Since when did 110 become the perfect number?
I'm going to mosey out to the link corral before the sun gets any higher. Head 'em up! Moooove 'em out!
►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄
- Hank Phillippi Ryan shares a reporter's tips for going undercover.
- A four-year-old has landed a book deal for his "astonishing" poetry.
- How books became cheap.
- A university is turning historical Mexican recipes into free eBooks.
- In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying.
- What the first women voters experienced when registering for the 1920 election.
- It's time for more period dramas to embrace the diversity of people of color.
- The power of flawed lists. How The Bookman invented the best seller.
- What scientists know about how children spread COVID-19.
►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄
- An Inca llama carving has been recovered from the depths of Lake Titicaca.
- Modern technology is revealing ancient Egyptian tattooing.
- A rare Chinese vase found in a pet-filled home sells for $9 million.
- Archaeologists have pinpointed the original location of Stonehenge boulders.
- CT scans are revealing miniature mummies' surprising contents.
- An antique vampire slaying kit from the early 1900s goes big at auction.
- Museums once coated native cultural objects in toxic pesticides.
- Found: A letter from Frederick Douglass about the need for better monuments.
►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄
- Wild bees are worth $1.5 billion for six U.S. crops.
- When did people start keeping pets?
- Here's a video of a helpful tabby cat leaping up to retrieve a package coming through the front door mail slot.
- River otters take party pooping to a new level.
- Dinosaurs suffered from cancer, too.
- Should plants and animals that relocate because of climate change be considered invasive?
- Watch a limber mob of bighorn sheep effortlessly scramble up a steep mountainside in Montana.
- What a Crowdsourced study taught us about how dogs learn.
►The Happy Wanderer◄
- Dublin: a city of books, and a city with a serious crime fiction tradition.
- Discover the UK's historic books.
- For sale: the most haunted mansion in Ireland.
- Temples of literature: Writers' houses in pictures.
- This Cape Cod island opened to the public for the first time in 300 years.
- William Wordsworth's former Somerset home, Alfoxton Park, was sold to a Buddhist charity.
- The urine deflectors of Fleet Street.
- You can do outdoor yoga with lemurs at this hotel in England.
- The Kansas homestead of America's first serial killer family is up for sale.
►Fascinating Folk◄
- Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the "wronged heroine" of DNA.
- Olivia de Havilland, star of Hollywood's Golden Age, has died at the age of 104.
- Women proved to be exceptional pilots during World War II. (Probably due to the fact that they weren't allowed to have guns on the planes they flew, so they had to use their little grey cells to fly out of trouble.)
- Captain Wendy Rexon and First Officer Kelly Rexon, the mother-daughter pilot team breaking the 30,000-foot glass ceiling together.
- Whatever happened to Eliot Ness after Prohibition?
- Matteo Stucchi, a brilliant food artist who turns boring cakes into imaginative miniature scenes of life.
►I ♥ Lists◄
- Agatha Christie: the great country houses which inspired the tales of Britain's greatest-ever crime writer.
- Gorgeous hoop embroidered landscape scenes. (I can't pick a favorite!)
- Books on Buildings: fifteen bookish murals from around the world.
- Sixteen crime novels that could save humanity.
- Top ten books about adventures.
- Ten classic whodunits every mystery fan needs to read.
- The 36 best crime drama and thriller shows on Amazon Prime: 2020 edition.
- The 57 best crime drama and thriller shows on Netflix: 2020 edition.
That's all for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure.
Stay safe! Stay healthy! And don't forget to curl up with a good book!
Oh, that T-shirt is perfect for you, Cathy! Just fabulous, and perfect for you! That's certainly enough to make you waver on your determination not to shop online... I'm off to check out that llama carving.
ReplyDeleteOh, I do plenty of online shopping--just not from Facebook ads!
DeleteYes, I agree that the T-shirt seems to suit you perfectly. Wish I could knit, but I have had no success learning. Makes me too nervous and frustrated. Anyway, we're having the mega-heat as well. Some years are like this. I just know that if I can stand walking outside in the early mornings right now, the rest of the year can be managed. Yay!
ReplyDeleteI got the same nerves and frustration from sewing and trying to learn how to crochet.
DeleteYou've certainly been experiencing the heat! Strangely, our summer has been much better than expected. Grateful for temps less than 100!
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed! It was over 110° before noon today.
DeleteHave you been outside reading in your pool and watching the birds take a bath?
ReplyDeleteNot as often as I'd like, but yes.
DeleteOh, good.
ReplyDeleteI just watched PP interview with Karin Slaughter. I stopped reading her books after two of them because of the violence and descriptions of it. But she is a charming, bright woman and made me laugh several times.
And she explained why she wrote in violence and the emotional aftereffects of it. So worth watching.
Yes, I went to one of her appearances at The Poisoned Pen. I only read one of her books because the one I did read had a heavily over-padded middle section. Sometimes I just don't want to deal with what Barbara Peters calls "books with too much middle."
DeleteBarbara Peters likes her a lot and laughed at her jokes. She knows the characters inside-out. Karin Slaughter is good on many issues. She also has raised a lot of money for an Atlanta library. I still don't know if I can deal with the violence.
ReplyDeleteYou're the only one who can make that decision.
DeleteOf course. It's personal taste.
ReplyDeleteWell, I know one book I did love. If there is a perfect book, "The Lantern Men" is it. I'm so content, but slipping into "post-good-book slump," as Bernadette would say. Perfect characters, dialogue, reflections. But we readers are again left with a question about what will happen next. So we will stew as we wait for the next Ruth Galloway book.
That's one thing I've never suffered from: post-good-book-slump. Reading a marvelous book has always filled me with excitement and the thrill of finding the next excellent read. No slumps here!
DeleteWell, sometimes I miss the characters and the story. If I have a good book ready, I zip into it. But right now after reading, "Remain Silent," by Susie Steiner, Becoming, by Michelle Obama and The Lantern Men, by Elly Griffiths, I'm hunting for a good book. A friend loaned me a memoir. OK. But fiction is needed. I'm waiting for a book of Sara Paretsky's stories and about to do a big order. But I"m looking over the TBR pile once more. And I'll get new books quickly. Found one in Overdrive at the library, but there are 200 holds. Will have to look for others like that.
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