It’s Wednesday! The last Wednesday in October to be exact. How are we nearly eleven months into 2016?
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We’re going to start off with something adorable and that would be a support duck. Yeah, you heard that right:
Mark Essig was settling into his puddle-jumper flight from Charlotte to Asheville, N.C., on Monday when he noticed an unusual passenger boarding the plane.
It was a duck. Making his way down the aisle.
Wearing red shoes. And a Captain America diaper.
The duck’s name is Daniel Turducken Stinkerbutt. He is the cutest.
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We’re over at Google:Play Books, recommending some of our favorite books this year! Feel free to check out the five titles we selected and loved.
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iGo Keyjuice Keyring
The iGo is an itty bitty tool that unfolds to one USB connection, plus a USB and a USB Micro, so you can plug your phone into your laptop, or into a portable battery. Excellent for tiny emergency kits, too.
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We have a request from Reader DonnaMaree, who is working hard on a PhD. She recently sent us an email regarding a survey for her research:
I am currently undertaking a PhD in popular romance fiction. Broadly I am looking at feminism in popular romance fiction but my actual research question will end up being narrower than that. Part of my research includes surveys of romance readers and romance writers. Today I have launched my surveys on Survey Monkey.
You can visit her blog here, where she has links to surveys for romance readers and romance writers. A big thank you to everyone who is willing to take the survey!
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Like free books? Well we’re doing daily book giveaways on our Instagram until the end of October. Titles are mainly horror, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense including the Blood Red Kiss paranormal romance anthology, Where the Wild Things Bite by Molly Harper, and Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett.
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Last week, Sarah wrote a quick review of A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas. If you want to know her full thoughts on the book, her extensive review is up at NPR Books:
Your reaction to the following words will probably determine whether this book is for you. If your heart speeds up and you find yourself making grabby hands at the screen, maybe hopping in your chair muttering, “Give it to me now,” I’m happy to tell you this book is available and worth your time to read once, possibly twice.
Here are the words in question: “Gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes.”
If you need another reason to read it, Carrie also enjoyed the book!
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
what a fantastic NPR review! Sarah’s hit the big leagues!! (or bigly, if you’re into Trump lingustics)
I’m not sure it needs to exist but someone has a Kickstarter for “the ultimate peanut butter and jelly knife”: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/418441847/the-pbjife-the-ultimate-peanut-butter-and-jelly-kn
And here’s some Wonder Woman art for sale: http://www.geek.com/comics/celebrate-75-years-of-wonder-woman-with-entertainment-art-1676474/
I posted this under the Harlequin Big Sale post but almost a week late. So I thought I’d post here as well.
Just fyi – if you purchased any books from the huge Harlequin sale, be sure to upload your receipts to Harlequin’s My Rewards program. They are giving 1000 points for EACH ebook purchased. When you get 2000 points you can redeem for a FREE ebook of your choice. (I used one of mine to get Sarah MacLean’s latest A Scot In The Dark, so the code works for Avon books as well.) 5000 points can get you a free print book.
I only found this out on the last day of the sale. If I had known last week, I would have done way more damage to my wallet. As it is, I redeemed enough points for 4 free books (each up to $8.99 in value). A cherry on top the already sweet deals!
@Marci– Thank you so much! I had no idea this was a thing.
@jimthered: I watched the video for the peanut butter and jelly knife. I have to say, in my four decades of 40-ounce Jif usage, I have never made such a godawful mess of a jar of peanut butter using just a simple butter knife. Maybe it’s a Big Man Hands™ problem.
Then again, kitchen stores are absolutely full of ridiculous single-purpose gadgets (a pan specifically for asparagus? a countertop device specifically for the herculean challenge of making hard-boiled eggs? really?), so he’ll probably be a billionaire this time next year.
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