The Three-Ring Circus Weekly Link Round-Up

 

 

Things have been in a bit of an uproar here at Casa Kittling. Denis was hospitalized for six days and came home with a severe lack of sleep and a picc line that will rule our lives for the next eight to twelve weeks. I already had experience with a picc line, but Denis had to be special and have two different antibiotics. One line is the type I'm familiar with while the other involves a bag of antibiotics and an attached pump. 

That pump and I don't always get along, but lucky Denis just sits there with his eyes shut and lets me get on with it. 

Now there are drug deliveries three times a week, a nurse coming to check the picc line and dressing and taking blood for lab work. Then there's the physical therapist coming to check on Denis, and I can pretty much tell him that PT ain't happenin' until they get his pain meds sorted out. What we really need is taking the longest to sort out: home help. We need someone who can run errands, and help me a bit with the laundry and cleaning. Somehow, we're winding up with a shipment of fourteen meals, which we don't need since I can have groceries delivered right to the door. I only hope I have room in the refrigerator and freezer for this stuff because I just put away the last delivery!

Hopefully, next week things will have settled down a bit. I'm finding it hard to concentr-- oh look, a squirrel! and still haven't gotten my dead laptop dealt with. I'm looking forward to a few more minutes of peace and quiet so that I can visit everyone's blogs and see what they've been up to as well as what they've been reading. Right now if I get those minutes, I have a tendency to nod off because the schedule for those antibiotics aren't conducive to getting any decent sleep.

But at least Denis is home, and even if he is still experiencing too much pain, I can see improvement being made.

Enjoy the links!

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• The biggest family tree ever recorded dates as far back as 100,000 years ago.
• Why librarians should read at their desks.
• Should cookbook authors employ sensitivity/authenticity readers?
• What we can learn from a Bollywood blockbuster about periods.
• How BookTok changed Book of the Month's influencer marketing strategy.
• Why are so many men still resistant to reading women?
• Learning to love really long books.
• What if the FBI required recruits to read paranormal crime thrillers?
• How Peter Baker felt when his novel was stolen. 

 

►Book Banning◄

• Book bans and the threat of censorship rev up political activism in the suburbs.
• A librarian in Texas has lost her job after not removing books.
  

 

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• Melting glaciers have revealed 1,700-year-old weapons used by reindeer hunters.
• A group called the TrowelBlazers unearths the forgotten history of women in archaeology.
• What ancient toilets reveal about the history of the human gut.
• See dazzling photos of a Roman mosaic floor unearthed in London.
• See a stunning, life-like reconstruction of a Stone Age woman.
• A new A.I. can help historians decipher damaged ancient Greek texts.
• A well-preserved 131-year-old shipwreck has been found in Lake Superior.
• A 14th-century sarcophagus has been found in fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral.
• Archaeologists have discovered five tombs in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis.
  

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄

• For fifty years, dogsled teams have been testing their mettle at the Iditarod.
• Fifty perfectly timed nature photos that will make you laugh.
• Yellowstone tourists encountered one of the park's rarest animals, the wolverine.
• When squirrels were one of America's most popular pets.
• The Secret Service dog that stopped a White House intruder and the SEAL Team 6 K-9 that took part in the raid that took down Usama Bin Laden were among the six American working dogs awarded the Animals in War and Peace Medal of Bravery.
• Musket, the therapy dog who comforted U.S. troops in the Middle East, now needs help continuing his healing work.
• Watch this woman use a wheelbarrow to transport a herd of baby goats back to their nursing mothers.
• Octopuses are reusing human trash as shelters. (Why do I think they're better at recycling than we are?)

 

►Fascinating Folk◄

• You know about Artemisia Gentileschi-- now learn about these other Renaissance women artists.
• Harriet Tubman is famous for being an abolitionist and political activist, but she was also a naturalist.
• Josefina Guerrero, the invisible, afflicted spy who led the U.S. Army into occupied Manila.
• How Félicité Niyitegeka saved her Tutsi neighbors from genocide in Rwanda.
• Georgette Heyer was the Agatha Christie of romance novels. You've probably never heard of her.

 

►I ♥ Lists & Quizzes◄

• Can you match the literary animal to its book?
• Fourteen contemporary artists on how reading influences their work.
• These books have gone viral on social media.
• Six narrators with unusual perspectives.
• Six novels about women at work during World War II.
• Ten novels about toxic friendships.
• Twenty-five of the best murder mystery books according to Book Riot.
• The best crime novels set in Ukraine.

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!