Links: Bingo, Seven Seconds, & Ballet

It’s Wednesday! How is everyone doing? Ready for the weekend yet? I definitely am, mainly because I’m enjoying a pretty good book right now and I want to dedicate my weekend to that. But in the meantime, here are some links!

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As if you needed more of a reason to ruin your book budget, we’re happy to make this list great book blogs:

Just reached The End on an awesome love story, and ready to submerse yourself into another HEA. Your favorite Book Retailer may not make the best suggestions. So what does a book worm do? Find a blog that fulfills your needs and empties your pocketbook. Here are twelve of our favorite romance book websites on the Internet today.

We’re in some pretty great company and we hope you can show the other eleven blogs some love too!

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If you haven’t heard, The Ripped Bodice is doing a Summer Reading Bingo challenge, completely with prizes!

RIPPED BODICE SUMMER READ-ALONG BINGO IS LIVE!!!!
Download your bingo card and read more books this summer!#rippedbodicebingo pic.twitter.com/na9zdFGuPN

— The Ripped Bodice (@TheRippedBodice) June 11, 2017

You can follow them on Twitter for reading recommendations, and we’ll also be posting some recs to the site next week. And if you need any encouragement, we have a Goodreads group!

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Don’t forget, we have an awesome giveaway going with a limited illustrated edition of The Innkeeper Chronicles. The book is also signed by Ilona Andrews and the illustrator, Doris Mantair!

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For readers in the New Hampshire or adjacent areas, there’s going to be a meet-up in August, hosted by Reader Suzanne! Redheadedgirl and possibly myself will be in attendance. Hope you can make it!

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Battery chargers!

Every few months a bigger, better, and lighter weight battery charger comes out. At this point I have 3 in various sizes—lipstick sized, 6.5oz, and the 12.5oz, which lives in our travel bag. I can recharge my kids' DS, tablets, my phone, etc, before it runs out of charge. - SW

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I am completely in love with this article from Jezebel, as I’m a notorious worrier:

Do not, under any circumstances, think about any interaction you’ve had with another human being for longer than seven seconds. So you got weird at your office Christmas party. Give it a full seven seconds, and release it. Yeah, you did make a weird noise with your mouth when you were alone with someone in the kitchen, and? Laugh about it to yourself for exactly seven seconds and then never think about it again. Anything longer is too long.

I’m determined to implement the 7-second rule into my life.

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I think we should round out these links with a video. Here’s a ballet dancer teaching some basics to CrossFit athletes. Somewhere, a romance novel is taking form.

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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!