Yes, it's time again for the Great January Book Giveaway! These are all books I've weeded from my shelves that need a new home with loving parents readers. Claim the one(s) you want in the comments, first person to claim gets it. Feel free to ask for as many as you like :)
Updated 1/9
Updated 1/9
| Title | Author | Genre |
| House Lessons | Erica Bauermeister | memoir |
| Staying On | Paul Scott | fiction |
| Rage | Bob Woodward | politics (Trump) |
| Clear and Present Danger | Tom Clancy | fiction |
| A History of Wild Places | Shea Earnshaw | fiction |
| Natural Cleaning for Your Home | Casey Kellar | non-fiction |
| Brain Droppings | George Carlin | humor |
| Darkfall, Phantoms, Servants of Twilight | Dean Koontz | horror (3 in 1 volume) |
| Treasury of Fantasy | Carey Wilkens (editor) | fantasy |
| 6 pb romance novels (all basically the same lol) | Barbara Cartland | cheesy romance |
| Red Death | P N Elrod | vampires |
| The Good Life | Helen and Scott Nearing | nature/memoir |
| The Forstye Saga vol. 1, In Chancery | John Galsworthy | fiction |
| The Family | Mario Puzo | fiction |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | sci-fi |
| The White Hotel | D M Thomas | fiction (seriously weird) |
| The Fabulous Riverboat | Philip Jose Farmer | sci-fi |
| Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern | Anne McCaffrey | sci-fi |
| Educational Games for Fun | Margaret Mulac | non-fiction |
| Tom Brown's School Days | Thomas Hughes | fiction (v. old hc, early 1900s) |
| Organic Plant Protection | Rodale Books | non-fiction |
- How am I?:bouncy
"Some people will use a symbolism of the relationship of God to the universe, wherein God is a brilliant light, only somehow veiled, hiding underneath all these forms that you see as you look around you. But the truth is funnier than that. It is that you are looking right at the brilliant light now, that the experience you are having which you call ordinary everyday consciousness - pretending you're not it - that experience is exactly the same thing as ‘IT’. There's no difference at all. And when you find that out, you laugh yourself silly. That's the great discovery.
"In other words, when you really start to see things, and you look at an old paper cup, and you go into the nature of what it is to see, what vision is, or what smell is, or what touch is, you realize that that vision of the paper cup is the brilliant light of the cosmos. Nothing could be brighter. Ten thousand suns couldn't be brighter. Only they're hidden in the sense that all points of the infinite light are so tiny when you see them in the cup they don't blow your eyes out. See, the source of all light is in the eye. If there were no eyes in this world, the sun would not be light. So if I hit as hard as I can on a drum which has no skin, it makes no noise. So if a sun shines on a world with no eyes, it's like a hand beating a skinless drum, no light. YOU evoke light out of the universe, in the same way you, by nature of having soft skin, evoke hardness out of wood. Wood is only hard in relation to a soft skin. It's your eardrum that evokes noise out of the air. You, by being this organism, call into being this whole universe of light and color and hardness and heaviness and everything."
-- Alan Watts
"In other words, when you really start to see things, and you look at an old paper cup, and you go into the nature of what it is to see, what vision is, or what smell is, or what touch is, you realize that that vision of the paper cup is the brilliant light of the cosmos. Nothing could be brighter. Ten thousand suns couldn't be brighter. Only they're hidden in the sense that all points of the infinite light are so tiny when you see them in the cup they don't blow your eyes out. See, the source of all light is in the eye. If there were no eyes in this world, the sun would not be light. So if I hit as hard as I can on a drum which has no skin, it makes no noise. So if a sun shines on a world with no eyes, it's like a hand beating a skinless drum, no light. YOU evoke light out of the universe, in the same way you, by nature of having soft skin, evoke hardness out of wood. Wood is only hard in relation to a soft skin. It's your eardrum that evokes noise out of the air. You, by being this organism, call into being this whole universe of light and color and hardness and heaviness and everything."
-- Alan Watts
- How am I?:
thoughtful
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Moderation isn't an end point, or even a center point,
necessarily. Rather than a template, it is an approach,
a tone, a cock of the head, an open mind, a willing ear,
an unjaundiced eye. A moderate wonders what other facts
might be brought to bear. A moderate figures we're in
this together and believes that a meeting of the minds
is not tantamount to surrender.
-- Kathleen Parker, "American Id-eology"
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- How am I?:
exhausted
I hope everyone is having a safe, relaxing winter holiday, despite its being not at all what we would have expected a year ago. If you're looking for an excellent way to pass some time, 
hoggywartyxmas is now posting and once again the stories are a true delight -- original, creative, well-written, and jolly good fun. Madam Malkin has a starring role in several of the offerings posted thus far, including a lovely exchange of letters with Madam Pince in which both young witches are finding their professional feet, as it were. The description of the National Library of Magic is bewitching :) If you haven't yet visited, now is the time!
hoggywartyxmas is now posting and once again the stories are a true delight -- original, creative, well-written, and jolly good fun. Madam Malkin has a starring role in several of the offerings posted thus far, including a lovely exchange of letters with Madam Pince in which both young witches are finding their professional feet, as it were. The description of the National Library of Magic is bewitching :) If you haven't yet visited, now is the time!- How am I?:bouncy
Today I mailed my letters for Vote Forward!! Mine were 110 out of more than 16 million letters sent, encouraging folks to participate in the election and vote, vote, vote -- check out all the photos :)
- How am I?:
hopeful - What's that noise?:The Rising
If you're looking for something to do this evening, a panel of eight horror authors will be doing live readings from their books! It's at 6pm EST tonight, go here to find out more:
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* Saint Walpurga, whose nacht this is, was hailed by the Christians of Germany for battling "pest, rabies and whooping cough" which seems rather appropriate at this moment. Her thoughts on injecting disinfectant are, alas, unknown.
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* Saint Walpurga, whose nacht this is, was hailed by the Christians of Germany for battling "pest, rabies and whooping cough" which seems rather appropriate at this moment. Her thoughts on injecting disinfectant are, alas, unknown.
- How am I?: jubilant
In case anyone reading this was not already aware, in March there was a security breach at DreamWidth and a number of user names and passwords were compromised (DW announcement here). Per their instructions, I immediately changed my DW password and also my LJ and AO3 passwords. Recently I got an email that correctly stated my (former) DW password, and then threatened various actions unless they got money (bitcoin) from me. Since that password is no longer valid, and I'm not concerned about the nonsense threats, I've deleted the email and don't intend to do anything.
BUT it's proof that the stolen data has been shared, and that my account was one of the ones compromised. So, if you have not yet changed your DW password, you should do so immediately, and if you use that same password on any other social media or other accounts, you should change those also, to something different.
BUT it's proof that the stolen data has been shared, and that my account was one of the ones compromised. So, if you have not yet changed your DW password, you should do so immediately, and if you use that same password on any other social media or other accounts, you should change those also, to something different.
- How am I?:
aggravated
This quote from Bridget Jones' Diary has been running through my head:
It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas [or, in this case, Corona-mas] with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.
It may be due to the fact that this was my breakfast:
(click to embiggen cake)
I hope, when we all go back to work, I remember how...
It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas [or, in this case, Corona-mas] with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.
It may be due to the fact that this was my breakfast:
I hope, when we all go back to work, I remember how...
- How am I?: thoughtful
Arthur Greenleaf Holmes, the English Libertine Poet, delivers his scandalous verse and takes your live requests from the rectory at the Church of St. Thomas The Polygamist. Live on YouTube, tonight at 7pm EST.
Watch here.
Warning: With poem titles like "I built my love a menstrual hut" this show is not for the faint of heart or ear. (When he says "wildly inappropriate" he really means it.) But it is also clever, funny, elegant, highly literate, and shows off a delightfully quirky way with language. One of our absolute favorite performers at our local Ren Fest.
Edit: Here's his channel, if you want to see more/subscribe.
Watch here.
Warning: With poem titles like "I built my love a menstrual hut" this show is not for the faint of heart or ear. (When he says "wildly inappropriate" he really means it.) But it is also clever, funny, elegant, highly literate, and shows off a delightfully quirky way with language. One of our absolute favorite performers at our local Ren Fest.
Edit: Here's his channel, if you want to see more/subscribe.
- How am I?: excited
sshg_giftfest, hoggywartyxmas, and snapecase are all posting right now, and I am as happy as a very happy thing that is happy! Everyone has outdone themselves this year -- hoggywarty has some fabulous stories about Garrick Ollivander in particular, while over on the giftfest someone actually wrote original music to go with their story -- ye gods!!My gifts were so wonderful, too: Someone wrote me a very funny, distinctly clever, and rather sweet Discworld crossover featuring the Librarian from Unseen University along with Nanny Ogg and the rest as visiting lecturers at Hogwarts (Ook), while some amazing artist created these rather snarky and entirely adorable christmas cards exchanged between Snape and Minerva.
Go, read, enjoy, and leave all these amazing gifted creators some love :)
- How am I?: ecstatic
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