The Old "Safe Place" Gamble Weekly Link Round-Up

 

This week, I figured out that putting something “someplace safe” sometimes means putting it right in front of your face.

 

I have two different colors of yarn that I’ve been dying to use. I decided I’d knit a shawl, so I found a pattern online, printed it out, and put the pattern in one of the open yarn boxes in the craft room so it would be right there with the yarn. Sensible, right?

 

A couple of days later, I wanted to take a look at the pattern, so I went out to the craft room, turned on the lights, and went to grab it. I couldn’t see it.

 

For three days I hunted for that blasted pattern. I even gave up and went online to print another copy only to learn that I couldn’t find it. 

 

 

Last night, I went out in the dark craft room to put something away, and I happened to have my scooter’s headlights on. As I turned around to go back up the ramp, the headlights shone at an angle on the side of the yarn box, and guess what? 

 

There was the pattern. Right. Where. I. Put. It.

 

Enjoy the links!

 

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• Inside Book Twitter's (final?) days.
• What if you gave a book signing and nobody came? Authors and bookstores share experiences.
• We've entered the Hot Boy Reader era.
• Getting the investigative details right in cozy mysteries.
• Kendra Winchester's moving library.
• Barnes & Noble saved itself by putting books first. Imagine that.
• The unexpected gifts of reading.
• Can detective novels withstand the Moonlighting Curse?

 

►Book Banning & Censorship◄

• Here's how Moms for Liberty is lying about books.
• Write your legislators about banned books right now with this template.
• The State of Colorado concluded that the firing of a Colorado librarian who objected to the cancellation of programs for youth of color and LGBTQ teens was illegal.
• Some mothers in Iowa are calling for more parental say in restricting "obscene" books in schools.
• The Orange (California) Unified School District restored the digital library that had been suspended over parents' book complaints.
• The Liberty Lake (Washington) City Council looks to limit the authority of the library board.
• Seventy people show up, hoping for appointment to a Florida district's book-banning committee.
• The book banners of a Virginia county are violating parents' rights.
• Shakespeare and Martin Luther King, Jr. make the list of troublesome works in Nottoway County (Virginia) schools.
• Trolls tried to disrupt a U.K. library's Drag Queen Story Hour event-- then something incredible happened.
• A South Dakota House committee has killed a bill targeting "obscene" materials in libraries.
• A book about legendary baseball player Roberto Clemente has been removed from Florida public schools pending a review over discrimination references.

 

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• Archaeologists finally know what happened at the brutal reform school known as the Florida School for Boys.
• Artificial intelligence has identified a long-overlooked Raphael masterpiece.
• A 2,500-year-old love letter was revealed in an ancient general's sarcophagus.
• Egypt has unveiled tombs and a sarcophagus in a new excavation.
• Egypt's oldest mummy, at 4,300 years, may have been found.
• A vast subterranean aqueduct in Naples once served elite Roman villas.
• A metal detectorist has discovered a rare gold pendant celebrating Henry VIII's first marriage.
• A 5,000-year-old tavern with food still inside has been discovered in Iraq.

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly May Clampett◄

• Four dogs have set the Guinness World Record for the most medical conditions detected.
• A study has found that Vikings brought horses and dogs to England.
• Why fennec foxes are the world's smallest wild dogs.
• Do beavers have a solution to climate change?
• Farmers in Missouri found a wild African cat wandering around the fields.
• Watch this gentle dog join his human baby brother in the crib.
• These woodpeckers went nuts, stashing 700 pounds of acorns in the wall of a California home. (And I'll bet they weren't happy when their private Fort Knox was broken into!)
• Meet Bobi, the world's oldest dog.

 

►The Wanderer◄

• One embroidered red dress is made by 343 artists from around the world over the course of thirteen years.
• I love this book heartbeat t-shirt I found on the internet while wandering around.
• California lost 36 million trees to drought last year.
• How Octavia Butler inspired a pathbreaking Black-owned Pasadena bookstore.
• This Native American tribe (Arizona's Pima Indians) is taking back its water.
• The wooden quilt doors of New Orleans.
• The loneliest post office in the world.

 

►Fascinating Folk◄

• How an all-Black female World War II unit saved morale on the battlefield.
• Twelve fascinating facts about Jesse Owens.
• Muriel Gardiner, the American heiress who risked everything to resist the Nazis.
• Celia Cruz, the "Queen of Salsa", will appear on a U.S. quarter.
• Lost sketches have revealed that Da Vinci understood the key aspect of gravity centuries before Einstein.
• The underrated genius of Ringo Starr.

 

►I ♥ Lists◄

• Sixteen uplifting books coming out in 2023.
• Nineteen new books by Black authors.
• Ten fictional tales of historical icons.
• Ten books for Kate Morton fans to read next.
• Eight medical mystery and thriller books.
• The ten most hackable IKEA furniture items.
• The most anticipated travel books of 2023.
• What non-fiction do we study from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s?

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.

And don't forget that quality Me Time with a good book!