Welcome back, everyone!
I have such good news. After months and months of losing the reading bug, I think I may have found it again! I don’t want to jinx myself, but I bought a new ereader, loaded it up with a few options (I didn’t want to be too overwhelmed by choices!), and started one. Since I’ve started it, I can’t stop thinking about it and I’ve even been bummed when I’ve been too busy to read before bed.
Our new cat Toast is also making great strides! He and Linus have touched noses and generally get along. Toast follows Linus around like a nosy, kid brother and Linus hasn’t shown any signs of aggression since the first few weeks we had him (we adopted back in May). Toast has gotten very brave and will sit in the same room as me and my partner and he even jumped on the bed for a brief minute in the middle of the night. At first, things felt so slow going and it could be a long while before he lets us touch him, but I’m so overjoyed by his progress from where he was at months ago!
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Ghostly Archive is a recent Instagram account I’ve followed where the creator visits cemeteries and finds gravestone recipes. She then makes the recipes at home and brings them back to sit and enjoy by the person’s graveside. I honestly had no idea gravestone recipes existed. Are you familiar with them?
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Sarah shared this Humans of New York post with us on the SBTB Slack of a bookseller and romance reader with her eyes on an HEA.
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“I Changed My Life to Support Ukraine. It Felt Like the Jewish Thing to Do” brought me to tears and it was a nice reminder that truly good people exist in the world.
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Lastly, if you’re on TikTok, you may already know about creator Elyse Myers. Well six months ago, Elyse released her hair care routine on YouTube and debuted her beautiful results in getting her curls back. The video is super informative and I’m always looking for ways to improve my curly hair routine, but what really caught me off guard was Elyse’s emotional sign-off and how/why she fought her curly hair for so long.
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting 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!
I hated my waves as a teen and twentyish person. I wanted stick straight hair like G Paltrow had and like I saw in fashion magazines at the time. Well, fast forward to my 30’s when a medication made my hair fall out in clumps. I was taken off the med but when my hair tentatively grew back my waves were gone. I miss them.
I have very straight hair but my youngest daughter has wavy/curly hair that frankly baffles me. It gets tangled, frizzy, damaged so I’ve taken to mostly braiding it to prevent damage. Thanks for the link, I’m trying to learn how to do her hair and the video was so helpful.
Thanks for the Toast/Linus update! I’m glad things seem to be going ok for both furboys.
New Murderbot coming! https://bookshop.org/p/books/system-collapse-martha-wells/19538545?ean=9781250826978
@hng23: I’m so excited for the new Murderbot! I got a digital ARC from NetGalley and am saving it to read during my vacation in a couple of weeks.
I think the HONY post is one of the most wholesome I’ve seen there. Isn’t that what romance is ultimately about: that readers (women, in particular) can dream and those dreams aren’t unreasonable, “unrealistic”, or dumb?
@Egged: I have very thick curly past-my-waist-length hair.
The best thing I recommend is a teardrop-shaped detangling brush like this one https://www.elle.com/beauty/g38005570/best-detangling-brushes/#product-cf77aa49-cc37-4b85-8890-6bd82abf84d2
Be sure to start brushing from the ends, slowly working your way up the hair in sections as they untangle. It takes much less time than a regular hairbrush & is pain free, always a plus.
Emotional indeed. My family hails from Ukraine and I too have been doing what I can. There are a lot of Ukranian sellers on Etsy and I have been buying from them not only to help support them but also to reconnect with my cultural roots. There are also sellers on there taking donations to help support the abandoned pets left behind when their owners evacuated or died. I still have cousins there and we have been trying everything we can think of to locate them without success.
I totally get Elyse and have watched her journey.
I have 3B curly hair. I don’t hate it. Stop saying, you must hate it. I bet you want straight hair. It’s cruel. It’s mean. It’s unkind.
Also commenting when it’s frizzy, like I don’t know.
It’s taken me a lifetime to get over the cruel things said to me by family, by hairdressers, by strangers, by friends, etc… I don’t need your validation or opinion one way or another over having curly hair.
Don’t tell me products to use. I have have my own combination of products to use. Each curly has their own cocktail and routine. What works for me may not work for you, and vice versa.
If you were raised to be ashamed of your curly hair, berated because of it, or made fun of for it, you will understand.
@EC, how very worrisome that you can’t reach your family. I hope they are safe, remain safe, and you are able to reach them soon. I’ve experienced short term fear when family is located on a different continent in the midst of a natural disaster. I can’t imagine the on-going concerns you must have.
An interesting thing: “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone” (podcast) often has a book club segment, and on this week’s episode they started reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown. They have varying opinions about it, romance novels and enemies-to-lovers. (also I think Sarah should talk with them lol)
I don’t know where I found this guy on instagram but he and his cute daughter rescue Aussie wildlife. Was it on this site? https://instagram.com/joshneille11?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==