A Hurry Up and Wait Weekly Link Round-Up

 

It's Tuesday, and this isn't going to be much of an intro to this week's links. First, my laptop has died, so I'm in here at the desktop, wondering why my laptop decided to give up the ghost.

But most importantly, when the doctors weren't happy with the progress Denis was making, they ordered an MRI. When the results of that came back, they told him to get to the hospital, and that's where he's been since late last Wednesday afternoon. They've now isolated exactly what the infection around his spinal column is and are attacking it with a targeted spectrum of antibiotics. A picc line has been put in place, and he'll be on those antibiotics for about twelve weeks.

Right now, we're waiting for the doctors to show up and release him to come home. Anyone who's ever had anything to do with hospitals knows the name of the tune I'm about to sing...

 

 

Hurry up and wait!

 

He is on the mend, though, and it's a relief to know exactly what's going on.

Enjoy the links!

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• How audiobooks helped a reader overcome her fear of long books.
• A rare manuscript is revealing a massive lost world of sixteenth-century books.
• The future of recycling may be in microbes.
• Major book statistics about readers: pandemic edition. Also, on reading pandemic fiction during a pandemic.
  
• How Ukrainians are using literature to fight back. Ukraine's libraries are offering bomb shelters and camouflage classes as well as books.
  
• #representationmatters: disability and crime fiction.
• New Dr. Seuss-inspired books will feature diverse creators. Also, five animated shows based on Dr. Seuss books are headed to Netflix.
  
• What classic mystery author should you read, based on your zodiac sign?
• What happened the last time the U.S. tried to make Daylight Saving Time permanent?
  

 

►Book Banning◄

• The Texas Library Association has formed a coalition to battle book bans.
• Why didn't the New York State Education Department defend its state librarian?
• Brad Meltzer's book was banned. Here's how he fought back.
  

 

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• Researchers have deciphered the glyphs on a 1,300-year-old frieze in Mexico.
• How much medieval literature has been lost over the centuries?
• Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance, has been discovered beneath the Antarctic sea. The shipwreck is teeming with bizarre ocean life.
  
• Emperor Hadrian's palatial breakfast chamber.
• A rare stone with Pictish symbols has been discovered in Scotland.
• The immortal armor of China's jade burial suits.
• Underwater archaeologists are excavating a Byzantine shipwreck near Samos. 
• Archaeologists have uncovered two pre-Hispanic temples in the Tehuacán el Viejo archaeological zone in Mexico.
• A new cosmic-ray scan of the Great Pyramid of Giza could reveal a hidden burial chamber.

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄

• Watch a determined tabby cat do crunches at the gym.
• Watch a happy duck playing a hand drum with its feet.
• To protect bighorn sheep, authorities have killed 58 mountain goats in Grand Teton National Park.
• African wild dogs survive by living in the cracks of a landscape.
• A study has found that large parachuting spiders could invade the East Coast.
• An adopted lone narwhal traveling with beluga whales could produce narluga calves.
• Before seeing Turning Red, learn these amazing red panda facts.
• A man caught at the Mexican border allegedly had more than 50 reptiles stuffed into his clothes.

 

►Man's Best Friend◄

• Watch this diligent border collie herd his ducklings to water.
• Arnie, the hero dog who saved over 80 canines by donating blood, has retired.
• When dogs bark, are they using words to communicate?
• Smoky, the dog who helped build an airbase during World War II, is the first to receive the Distinguished Service Medal. (I reviewed a book written about Smoky.)
• Ruby, the shelter dog turned K-9 hero, has inspired a Netflix movie.
• Therapy dogs can help relieve pain in the ER.
• A cute yellow Labrador retriever puppy named Holiday will be Maine's first official courthouse therapy dog.
• A man who fell from his wheelchair into a lake was saved from drowning by his little beagle named Sarah Jane.

 

►Craftsmanship & Artistry◄

• Vibrant hoop embroidery animals. 
• Alejandro Lopez is a talented hairstylist who elevates hair braids to look like complex woven art.
• Making a needle felted cappuccino.
• Bookish cross stitch and embroidery patterns to download and make.
• This Depression-Era "magic cake" has a secret ingredient.

 

►The Wanderer◄

• Detailed floor plan drawings of popular TV and film homes.
• Here are the world's 25 most endangered cultural heritage sites.
• Six books that explain the history and culture of Ukraine.
• Cozy mystery towns to visit.
• Crime & the City: Birmingham.
• Open Shutters uses the spycam epidemic to address the woeful state of women's rights in South Korea.
  

 

►Fascinating Folk◄

• John von Neumann, the scientist who inspired Dr. Strangelove.
• Michèle Mouton raced the boys and took their trophies.
• Meet the "Top Gun" heroines of World War II.
• Marie-Madeleine Fourcade's story is a real-life Handmaid's Tale.
• When sixteen-year-old Emma Tenayuca disturbed the peace.
• The only all-Black women's unit sent to Europe during World War II has been awarded a Congressional medal.
• How Black men changed the world.

 

►I ♥ Lists◄

• Thirteen histories about the lives of aristocrats.
• Seven World War II spy memoirs to augment your historical fiction shelf.
• Bookish goods for your kitchen and pantry.
• The owner of Bold Fork Books is a cookbook obsessive. Here are her favorites.
• Fifteen readers share the books they re-read the most.
• Fifteen modern mysteries for fans of Golden Age detective novels.
• Twelve of the funniest women in literature.
• Fourteen incredible Brazilian books available in English translation.
• Eleven (fortunately) retired Girl Scout badges.

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!