[From Publisher’s Weekly, who gives you three free articles before you have to subscribe, so you should be able to read this without hassle.] The catalog draws from a broad range of genres, including contemporary romance, science fiction, horror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, and adventure. Among the standout titles are the sci-fi saga The Vela: Part 1,…
Cal Hooper ends his relationship with the Chicago Police Department and his wife at about the same time and retires to a farm in western Ireland because it looked prettier than any of the others he saw for sale online. He doesn’t tell anyone he was a cop in his other life but this is…
Fun! Click through and give it a try. (h/t Kottke) Headline: Voters question gubernatorial candidates in Anchorage speed dating-style event Dana sez, This actually sounds kinda cool, and they should do it again after the primary has winnowed the field down to four candidates. Read the full story here. (Alaska Public Media) Love this. (h/t…
I was sorting through the pantry and this surfaced. There was dust on the top and I thought “Hmmm.” Then I turned it over to look at the sell-by date. Trump wasn’t even in office for the first time yet. And before you ask, no. That can has been permanently retired.
‘I’m always on tap for romance or chocolate that’s bittersweetYou can always count on me…’ Some of the best song lyrics ever written.
If you’re a member of the Authors Guild (and if you’re a writer you should be) you’ve already received this news as the first story in the July 31st newsletter, but just in case: Click through here or the image above to read the whole piece but here’s the heart of it: What Happens Next…
A book I should have read in the Women’s History class that was never offered at UAF, or at least not while I was there. In 1890 Dr. Mary [Mollie] Babcock Moore decides that she’d rather work for herself than for her husband. She had good cause. …it wasn’t long after she started working with…
Read more Clearly she was going to have to defend her status as a single woman and a doctor here.
I remember seeing the animated Aladdin in the theater, laughing so hard and so continuously my sides literally ached, and wondering later how on earth the animators’ pencils managed to keep up with Robin Williams’ mouth. “We had a script,” one of them says at the beginning of this video, a little despairingly. (h/t Laughing…
Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “shay”), yet another magical place in these United States. I was lucky enough to visit there in 2012. Canyon de Chelly is not Chaco Canyon, but I’m using it as a way into this story: Quote: “…the Trump administration’s plans to rescind a 10-mile buffer zone barring drilling and mineral extraction…
