Both Sarah and I are traveling, and we hope you all are doing something equally as enjoyable. If not, or if you just need a moment to slow down, hopefully these links can help.
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Just in case you need to add a few more books to your TBR pile before 2017 is over, Barnes & Noble has a great list of anticipated LGBTQA young adult releases. A good majority of the covers are amazing!
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Sarah discovered Recaptains, which gives you a refresher of a series before starting the next book:
Yay! The next book in your favorite series is coming out soon! But hey, wait a second… what was it that happened in book 1 again? Did they kiss? Did they beat the bad guy? Did they have to run for their lives and was there a Cliffhanger with Capital C?
Did you just have to ask yourself those questions without being able to answer them? Well, have no fear, the Recaptains are here! We are bloggers by day, serial killer killers by night. We spoil… on purpose! So beware!
Sometimes during a re-read of a long series can feel an awful lot like homework, so this is pretty handy.
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The 2017 winners of The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have been announced. The owls are definitely my favorite.
Backpacking on that, @Upulie on Twitter has taken those same photos and given them a Jane Austen twist. Thanks to Reader H for letting us know about it!
"Confined? Confined indeed! I would have you know, Mr Darcy, that we dine with four-and-twenty families," cried Mrs Bennett. Jane and Elizabeth did not know where to look. Mr Darcy's hauteur only increased pic.twitter.com/1tC2Ud2BjP
— Upulie Divisekera (@upulie) December 14, 2017
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Thanks to Sue for sending us this article in The Washington Post about people turning to Hallmark Christmas movies in these trying times:
They are always Christmas-focused but tend to celebrate the season rather than Jesus Christ. They are often about a high-powered career woman who needs an invitation to slow down. She is played by someone from that show you used to watch circa 1992-1998. She will meet a moderately attractive man who looks like an Old Spice commercial. The plot might be reminiscent of a specific big-budget feature film, except smaller-budget, and with Christmas.
Have you been partaking in Hallmark movies this season?
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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!
Speaking of hallmark movies, I totally got a kick out of this SNL skit:
https://youtu.be/MSzytvDsPfo
So..I don’t know how long Recaptains has been around but they didn’t have any of the Kate Daniels series in there.
Recaptains has a great premise. Example: I read the first Amanda Bouchet book, but can’t remember a thing about it. Hopefully their list of series will expand in time.
My link of the week, in honor of annoying Christmas movies THAT THEY ARE STILL PLAYING OMG IT’S OVER CAN WE MOVE ON is a breakdown that almost makes Home Alone somewhat tolerable:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/home-alone-is-so-much-better-if-kevin-mccallister-is-dead
“You might think insisting that Kevin McCallister is dead and doesn’t know it is the most lunatic film interpretation ever, and that my editor was crazy to let me write this insane subway screamer manifesto instead of writing something worthwhile. Well, I don’t care. I am going to M. Night Shyamalan Home Alone for you.”
“Speaking of hallmark movies, I totally got a kick out of this SNL skit:
https://youtu.be/MSzytvDsPfo”
HAH! I think the Young Santa one is about five or six (slightly) different Hallmark movies.
@ Sita – thanks for sharing the SNL skit. The gazebos!
I’ve seen or have been pointed to by my well-meaning husband and friends several articles around this year’s viewership for Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas and all have said the same thing … it’s a break from 2017 and the news. I agree, but this year I haven’t been as compulsive about the Countdown to Christmas movies as in the past. There are several waiting in the DVR hopper including “The Christmas Train” and a couple I dozed off on before the first commercial break. A crazy month at work may have been a factor, but I’m thinking it’s because I now live the small-town life in my over-decorated for Christmas (my city friend’s words) farm house. However, the owner of the Christmas tree farm a few miles up the road is not a transplant from the big city and my favorite bakery is owned by a lovely lady of a certain age not a perky Lacey Chabert look-alike. We do have some handsome scruffy-bearded guys wandering around, though, who just may be looking for those high-school sweethearts who left them for the big city. Maybe one of them will come back and open a bed and breakfast. We really could use a good B&B in our village.
I am all about the Hallmark movies. I watch them all year long. They are a nice escape from real life for a few hours, which I have sorely needed with all the stress/deadlines/family drama over the last month.
There is a royal-themed one coming on this weekend: http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/royal-new-years-eve
Although I always get a little annoyed by the Hallmark movies where the heroine (or hero) is a writer/journalist. They always stress about having to write a thousand-word article by their deadline or how they don’t want to go on a book tour for their publisher.
After muttering to the TV about how that is *not* how writing/journalism really works, I want to reach through the screen, pat their hand, and tell them to buck up. A thousand words is just a half-hour out of my day, not something that you slave over for two whole weeks, while at a gorgeous resort, while being wooed by an impossibly charming, handsome person with perfect hair and teeth who somehow looks even better in a variety of winter scarves/hats. LOL.
@ Ren Benton–holy shit that ridiculous movie finally makes sense– how did the “Kevin is dead” interpretation never occur to me before?!
This is my first year watching the Hallmark channel, and it’s been enjoyable! I may now have a small crush on Travis Van Winkle-an actor I’ve never heard of before, but seems to be quite delightful.
One of my pet peeves, these women head off to small wintery towns, and they don’t think to bring some low heeled boots? Or have an emergency kit in the car for winter driving? I think I did see a few where a city girl actually had a farm background, so was not such a city mouse. Those are few and far between though!
I liked the Contrail Goose myself. But Upuli wins the internet today.
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