Hello, everyone! How is your Wednesday doing?
I want to thank everyone who shared their positive thoughts and advice in the comments last week and those who sent notes to my inbox. It was all much appreciated and really helped my partner and I make arrangements. Linus is doing as well as can be and so far, has responded well to steroids. But it’s a day by day thing.
Since finding out about Linus’s diagnosis, I have been reading a lot. I powered through five books in a week. Unfortunately, I’d make the bad call of starting a new book at 10pm and finishing it by 1am. Not that any of the books were particularly amazing. I’m just a fast reader and it felt silly to stop when I could crush it in a couple hours. And LEST I BE ALONE WITH MY THOUGHTS!
…
If you’re looking for ways to help communities impacted by the Texas floods, the local KSAT station has some suggestions.
Agatha of the She Wore Black podcast shared suggestions with her Patreon, and we’re passing them along as much as we can:
I’ll specifically link here to Kerr County Flood Relief, Austin Pets Alive and the Williamson County Animal Shelter. Though Austin and the surrounding towns (like mine) were also victims of major flooding, our animal shelters took in animals from Kerrville and Hunt that suffered the most losses. They are desperate for help.
…
Libro.fm has a ton of audiobooks on sale at a great price!
…
Dying at this post from Bookshop. If you want an alternative to buying books from Amazon, Bookshop is a great option. We have a “storefront” with reading suggestions taken from the site.
…
Have you heard that BookExpo is returning next year?! While I may miss conventions, I do not miss the Javits center.
…
If you’re still riding the glorious wave of K-Pop Demon Hunters, it looks like there is going to be a physical soundtrack release. We also have a guest review coming up!
…
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!
Interesting story of survival of the flood in Texas. My friend Keri (author/speaker) and her mom are direct descendants of Frances Hodgson Burnett, writer of The Secret Garden and 50 other books. Her mom discovered the home was flooding in the middle of the night. They were featured on CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/10/us/video/family-of-nine-survivors-secret-garden-author-digvid
My 8yo kiddo was clued into the Kpop Demon Hunters movie by seeing some previews on Netflix and was counting the days till it was released. Since it came out, she has watched it numerous times and is making me stream the soundtrack whenever we are in the car. Good thing the bops are so catchy!