Welcome back to Wednesday Links! How are you all?!
The good news in my neck of the woods is that my brother is visiting soon and I bought tickets to South Korea to see him in the spring. I never thought I’d spend by 35th birthday in South Korea, but I’m not mad at it.
In big Toast news, I got to pet his back three times before he walked away. No running away, jumping, or hissing! This was our first substantial human contact and I’ll be riding that high all week.
What are your wins this week?
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EC Spurlock sent this link our way! Lore Olympus is coming to an end and Rachel Smythe, of course, discusses her complicated, bittersweet feelings.
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Sarah shared this with us and I’ve been sharing it with almost anyone I can. It’s a very tough quiz where you try to guess if a word is a name from a Tolkien book or an antidepressant. It is surprisingly difficult.
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Another share from Sarah, who said this one was “SO WILD.” I believe you have to sign up for the site to finish reading, but this is a story of a con who was conned. (Also would love some romance recs about battling con artists. Maybe a future Rec League!)
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I went down a Tiny Desk Concert rabbit hole over the weekend, so expect to see an uptick in videos. However, I was really amazed by Imogen Heap’s performance, especially when she revealed her magical, musical gloves!
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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 am a prescriber and also someone who has read the trilogy more than 10 times in the last 50 years. I did not get 100%. One of my BFFs, also a prescriber and someone who can speak Elvish, did not get 100%. Curious how others are doing.
It was in fact very difficult! I got 18/24 and a friend got 20/24. Neither of us have anything other than a layperson’s perspective of medicine (we hear or see the ads sometimes, maybe hear about one from someone who’s been prescibed it). We do both use the elvish glosseries from The Simarillion to blend words into names for our RP/RPG characters though? Sometimes it felt like that’s where the people naming the medicines were getting their names too!
Tolkien used real life languages like Finnish and Welsh Gaelic to create both Quenya and Sindarin, so maybe it’s a case of branching off similar sources?
That is a seriously unusual quiz! I scored 14/24 and have no special knowledge of either category.
@Amanda: I hope you’ll have a great visit with your brother soon and a great time in South Korea in the spring. You can wave hello to my daughter; she went there to teach English for ‘a year or two’ ten years ago. Clearly, she likes it.
Bernadette Banner redesigned romance novel covers for historical accuracy again and the redo of The Duke Who Didn’t and Rebel were both awesome.
Always ready for videos. Thanks, Amanda.
That quiz is amazing. Thank you for the share. Everyone at my arts nonprofit is now playing. Highest scorer is a self-professed LOTR nerd who used to have nothing to do but look at pill bottles at her mom’s pharmacy when there was no childcare and she got 20/24
Thank you for that, @Melody Prime–loved this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xufMJvAhjiM
I got 21/24! Credit to all the LoTR fanfic I read
22/24 on the Tolkien quiz. A bunch of the names from Tolkien books were fairly obscure.
(Presumably the drug names, also, but I wasn’t trying to recognize the drug names, I was just deciding whether or not it was a Tolkien name.)
Thanks to Amanda for the Tiny Desk Concert link. I went down a similar rabbit hole recently when it was announced that Bob Boilen had retired. He will be missed. Not sure if Tiny Desk Concerts will continue, but there was one the other day with Smokey Robinson, so maybe yes?
Must admit that I mostly know Imogen Heap for “The Happy Song”. My toddler grandchildren adore that song and the stop-action video that goes with it. Of the reported 25 million views, I think we account for about 1 million of them. Happy to be introduced to her other music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PhtxqKLvVc
For a con story, if you like sweet romance, Nancy Naigle has a FMC who was conned. It’s not the main part of the story, the romance is with the police detective assigned to her case, but the con is solved in the end.
And Then There Was You.
If you like romantic suspense solving a murder surrounding a pyramid scheme, try Denise Wheatley’s Backcountry Cover-up.
23/24 on the Tolkien quiz! I guess I’m a Tolkien nut!