There really is nothing to see here. We're waiting for the delivery of our exercise equipment. I've polished the dining room floor in anticipation. The center one of my three monitors has gone belly up, and I'm waiting on delivery of a new one. (Because once I went to three monitors, I realized that I'd never willingly go back to one... or even two.) Denis is learning that he's more than capable of pool filter repair. I'm scanning photos and artwork.
Yawn.
So I'll show you another t-shirt and be on my merry way out to the link corral. Head 'em up! Moooove 'em out!
►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄
- Kuwait relaxes book censorship laws after banning thousands of titles.
- How are crime authors going to address the pandemic in their new books?
- Teresa Dovalpage and Uva de Aragón discuss Cuban fiction, food, and writing across languages.
- The greatest crime film of all-time: The Third Man.
- People want to support their local bookstores. They could be hurting them instead.
- Why are we so fascinated by houses in literature?
- The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first painting by a Native American artist.
- Sherlock Holmes at the womanly art of self-defense.
►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄
- A lost medieval sacristy and burial grounds have been unearthed at Westminster Abbey.
- A fallen boulder at the Grand Canyon has revealed prehistoric reptile footprints.
- Gold-hunting diggers are destroying Sudan's priceless past.
- A trove of 1,000-year-old gold coins have been unearthed in Israel.
- Recreate the ancient Egyptian recipes painted on tomb walls.
- A rediscovered early medieval potion could be the future of antibiotics.
- Gandhi's glasses were found sticking out of a British mailbox with a note attached.
- Read thousands of Abraham Lincoln's newly transcribed letters online.
- A record-breaking 60,000 flamingos flocked to southern France.
- The secret behind a new insect repellent's potent punch is found in grapefruit.
- A sole-searching, shoe-swiping fox was caught in Germany.
- Monkeys' attraction to burned grasslands may offer clues to human ancestors' mastery of fire.
- A gregarious pet goose gleefully greets her human whenever he returns and yells "Daddy's home!"
- The statue of Sallie Ann Jarrett (a dog) at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- A pair of lazy gray wolves howl while lying down.
- An octopus plays a determined game of tug of war with a freediver's GoPro.
►Fascinating Folk◄
- Makeshift refuges: Edith Wharton's home-building.
- Fabien Cousteau, Jacques Cousteau's grandson, wants to build the international space station of the sea.
- The life and legacy of "founding mother" Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.
- Mary Golda Ross: the first Native American aerospace engineer and space race pioneer.
- Seventeen-year-old Kay Petersen has won a $250,000 prize at the nation's most prestigious science fair for her hunger-fighting tool.
- Dr. Gerty Cori, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for medicine, revolutionized biochemistry.
- Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison are among the Women of the Century for arts, literature, and media.
►The Happy Wanderer◄
- Chocolate "snow" dusted a Swiss town after a malfunction at the Lindt factory. Here's another article about it from the Smithsonian Magazine.
- The Lincoln Memorial undercroft, a cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for sixty years.
►I ♥ Lists◄
- Death at the fair: a cozy mystery tradition.
- Fourteen thrilling reads for fans of Daniel Silva.
- Nine books set in U.S. national parks that are almost as refreshing as a vacation in nature.
- Seven novels that use weather to enhance the suspense.
- A database of 5,000 historical cookbooks is now online, and you can help improve it.
- Eight books with settings so cold you'll forget about the summer heat.
- Eight unsettling historical thrillers that will haunt you until the last page.
- Top ten Scottish crime novels.
- Twisted siblings and the new era of psychological thrillers.
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!
You know, Cathy, it can be good to have those less-frantic, 'nothing new here' times. I hope you'll enjoy your exercise equipment once you get it. And that t-shirt is fantastic! Now, I'm headed to Westminster Abbey - that sounds fascinating!
ReplyDeleteIt does, doesn't it? And those "nothing new here" weeks *can* be nice...if you don't have a seemingly endless procession of them.
DeleteOff to check on some of these links!
ReplyDeleteHope you find some you enjoy!
DeleteGood luck with your exercise equipment when it arrives. We're actually having rain today - I almost don't know what that wet stuff is. Ha! I found the article interesting that related how crime writers might deal with the COVID pandemic. I suspect that most authors will perhaps eventually use parts of it, but who knows how things will play out? Have a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteYou, too! And...rain? What's that?
DeleteLove that T-shirt. I'd reword it to say "before the pandemic and books."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links. Always so much fun every Friday to read them.
But they always add to the TBR mountain.
FYI: Just watched a video of Barbara, Carl Hiaasen and JOhn Sandford. Laughed for an hour.
I haven't watched that one yet. Good to hear you enjoyed it.
DeleteHiaasen and Sandford have hilarious stories about southern Florida, pythons and the crazed humans who go to National Reptile conventions, as well as various doings at events by the wealthy.
ReplyDeleteI've seen Sandford and he can really spin good yarns. I'm looking forward to Hiaasen (Denis loves his books), but am a bit swamped with things right now, so it's going to take awhile for me to watch the video.
DeleteGreat shirt!
ReplyDeleteRe: authors and the pandemic - that article doesn't include Michael Connelly, but he has said that he shifted the time of the setting for the newly-published Fair Warning back to the end of 2019. It was originally intended to be in the present of the publication date (i.e., as current as possible), but clearly that did not work out.
Yes, I read about that, too. Val McDermid (another favorite of mine)has a book out in October called Still Life which ends just as the lockdown is about to begin. I'm wondering if she's going to deal with the pandemic in the next book or skip over it entirely.
DeleteI like Val McDermid, but only certain books. Not the violent ones, or the more violent ones.
ReplyDeleteThis is the latest in her Karen Pirie series, which isn't as violent as her Tony Hill series. I enjoy Pirie. I don't enjoy Hill.
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