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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-21 08:55 am

Books Received, June 14 to June 20



Five works new to me: 2 fantasy, 1 non-fiction, 2 science fiction, of which 1 belongs to a series, and the other 4 are stand-alone.

Books Received, June 14 to June 20

Poll #33275 Books Received, June 14 to June 20
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 1


Which of these look interesting?

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99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them by A. M. Alker, M. D. & Ashely Alker (January 2026)
1 (100.0%)

The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear (June 2025)
0 (0.0%)

From These Dark Abodes by Lyndsie Manusos (May 2024)
0 (0.0%)

The Prestige by Christopher Priest (July 2025)
0 (0.0%)

Deathly Fates by Tesia Tsai (April 2026)
0 (0.0%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
1 (100.0%)

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nverland ([personal profile] nverland) wrote in [community profile] creative_cooks2025-06-21 07:13 am
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Potato Salad with Avocados

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Potato Salad with Avocados
Total Time: 20 min Cook Time: 10 min Prep Time: 10 m Serves: 4


Ingredients

1 1/2 lb. bag red, white and blue potato medley (or assorted red, blue/purple and new potatoes)
2 ripe Avocados, seeded and peeled
1/2 lemon, zested and juiced 2 green onions, white and light green parts only, minced
1/2 cup diced celery, optional
1 serrano pepper, stemmed, seeded and minced, optional
1/2 tsp. garlic salt, or to taste


Instructions

Place potatoes in a microwave-safe bowl and cover with water. Cover the bowl and microwave on high for 8 to 10 minutes. Test for doneness by piercing one potato with a fork. The fork should slide in with gentle resistance. Continue cooking if not done, otherwise carefully drain the potatoes and refrigerate them until cold.
Cut potatoes in bite-sized pieces (quarter or dice depending on size of potato). Place in a large bowl.
Slice one half avocado and sprinkle with the lemon juice; set aside.
Mash the remaining avocado and add to the bowl with potatoes. Stir in the lemon zest, green onions, celery, pepper and garlic salt.
Gently fold in the diced avocado; adjust garlic salt to taste. Fan avocado slices on top and serve immediately.

Variations:

Fresh herbs make a nice addition to this avocado potato salad. Stir in a teaspoon or more of your favorite minced fresh herbs, such as dill, cilantro or flat leaf parsley.
Stir in diced hard-boiled eggs.

Serving Suggestion: Amp up the American holiday spirit by serving in a bowl with patriotic colors. If prepared in advance place a layer of plastic wrap or a flat cover directly over the top surface; refrigerate.

*Large avocados are recommended for this recipe. A large avocado averages about 8 ounces. If using smaller or larger size avocados adjust the quantity accordingly.
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nverland ([personal profile] nverland) wrote in [community profile] recipecommunity2025-06-21 07:12 am
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Potato Salad with Avocados

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Potato Salad with Avocados
Total Time: 20 min Cook Time: 10 min Prep Time: 10 m Serves: 4


Ingredients

1 1/2 lb. bag red, white and blue potato medley (or assorted red, blue/purple and new potatoes)
2 ripe Avocados, seeded and peeled
1/2 lemon, zested and juiced 2 green onions, white and light green parts only, minced
1/2 cup diced celery, optional
1 serrano pepper, stemmed, seeded and minced, optional
1/2 tsp. garlic salt, or to taste


Instructions

Place potatoes in a microwave-safe bowl and cover with water. Cover the bowl and microwave on high for 8 to 10 minutes. Test for doneness by piercing one potato with a fork. The fork should slide in with gentle resistance. Continue cooking if not done, otherwise carefully drain the potatoes and refrigerate them until cold.
Cut potatoes in bite-sized pieces (quarter or dice depending on size of potato). Place in a large bowl.
Slice one half avocado and sprinkle with the lemon juice; set aside.
Mash the remaining avocado and add to the bowl with potatoes. Stir in the lemon zest, green onions, celery, pepper and garlic salt.
Gently fold in the diced avocado; adjust garlic salt to taste. Fan avocado slices on top and serve immediately.

Variations:

Fresh herbs make a nice addition to this avocado potato salad. Stir in a teaspoon or more of your favorite minced fresh herbs, such as dill, cilantro or flat leaf parsley.
Stir in diced hard-boiled eggs.

Serving Suggestion: Amp up the American holiday spirit by serving in a bowl with patriotic colors. If prepared in advance place a layer of plastic wrap or a flat cover directly over the top surface; refrigerate.

*Large avocados are recommended for this recipe. A large avocado averages about 8 ounces. If using smaller or larger size avocados adjust the quantity accordingly.
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Susan Dennis ([personal profile] susandennis) wrote2025-06-21 06:08 am

Menu Day

This was Friday's entry.... which... again... I forgot to hit 'post'!

Today's menus are of greater importance than usual. There's the looming meal allowance. This week, they have a pork chop at dinner that is soooooo good. Ordinarily, I'd order a couple of extras for the freezer. BUT if next week's menu looks very good, then maybe not. Scott and Julie will arrive Sunday and stay until Thursday so we will be using up the meal allowance that way if the menu is good. If it sucks, then I might pile on the pork chops and the three of us will go out.

Of course, it does not matter one bit if I go over and (did I mention this last week) they now have a new thing where you can donate any spare meal money you have left over to the Issaquah Food Bank.

But, still, to me, menus matter and I want to see next week's. They put it out (in the mail room cubbies) about now so I can go get mine any time. They also put the menus online but, frustratingly, not until Sunday or next week.

Hazel came over last night to chat. When John is down or cabby about something, she really wants/needs conversation with other people. I know Joan always wants company so I'm not sure why I get picked. She's a lovely sweet person, Hazel but not at all interesting. 95% of the stuff she says, I have heard before and didn't care about them either. Anyway John did come home from the hospital Wednesday and now he has a back issue and they are going to the doctor tomorrow.

I listen politely and offer nothing, I learned my lesson on Myrna. I am not their care giver and they are not my responsibility.

I treated myself to a nice set of covered bowls last week. When they arrived, I loved them! Yesterday, I used several to make pickles and another salad. And then I popped them into the dishwasher. Now they are not so much bowls as sculptures. I went back to Amazon to carefully read the web page. It says nothing about dishwasher. Nothing - not in the reviews, not in the questions, not in the texts. Fuck. So. I found another set of nice, covered bowls which were clearly labeled safe for dishwasher. And now, it's back to UPS for the 4th time this week. Sigh.

But it is a lovely cloudy day so no fighting the sun and an easy trip.

I have yarn for about 4 more Pride monsters/robots and then it will be back to dolls. If the inventory holds up a bit, I might work up some Halloween prototypes. Martha is all over Halloween so she's agreed to judge. I'm aiming for one - like the bunnies - that I'll make a bunch of. But then for sure back to the dolls. I do have enough inventory to hold me over for the days Scott and Julie are here.

Ok, time to get dressed and get on with the day.
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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-06-21 07:50 am
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Yahtzee Roll

I don't know if this one's going to happen. I'll have to crank out 5 fills in 4 days. But it makes me think of BBC Sherlock's Sally and Stella.

https://getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/856782.html?thread=10808526#cmt10808526

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eller ([personal profile] eller) wrote2025-06-21 01:40 pm
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Astronomical acknowledgement

Happy solstice! :3
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Rachel Coleman ([personal profile] rmc28) wrote2025-06-21 12:39 pm
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A week ago I was in Prague

(I forgot to mention that for about twenty minutes of the day I flew to Prague, I couldn't find my passport, because it was not in the box where it normally lives at home. That was not a fun twenty minutes, and much love to both Tony and Charles for joining me in the search. We found it eventually, it had fallen down the side of the shelf on which the passport box lives, in a way that meant you could only see it from one specific angle. Thankfully, I eventually stood at that angle and spotted it.)

The ice hockey camp continued to be excellent and very hard work, and I feel like I learned a great deal (and now I need to remember to keep using everything I learned and not fall back into bad habits). The coaching was very supportive and kind while pretty much pushing me to my physical limits. I very much hope to return on future camps.

The Saturday evening we went into central Slaný where there was a kind of beer festival happening, lots of different beer stands around the town square, a live rock band on stage, and a bunch of fairground rides. Sunday lunchtime, after the camp was finished, the original three of us got an Uber into Prague in the gloriously hot and humid afternoon. The other two had been to Prague before so I went off on my own to do some tourist things (boat tour! historical tram! walking across the Charles Bridge!) and messaged them when I was ready to meet up again. Turned out we were about five minutes walk apart at that point.

I took a load of photos but actually this random selfie for my family is one I'm really happy with:

We had dinner in Prague, during which time the hot weather broke into torrential downpour, and did a bit more walking around once that tailed off into intermittent showers, but eventually got back to Slaný for the evening. We got packed up and out of our rooms as requested in the morning but were able to leave our kit in storage while we had a leisurely walk and hipsterish brunch in Slaný before it was time to head to the airport.

Getting home was tediously delayed by train cancellations but I still got home in time to put the first washload on and repack my kitbag for Warbirds practice Monday evening.

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Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote in [community profile] awesomeers2025-06-21 12:32 pm
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Just One Thing (21 June 2025)

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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rogueslayer452 ([personal profile] rogueslayer452) wrote2025-06-21 02:30 am
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Review: Unfriended franchise

Unfriended is among what is referred to as the "screenlife" found footage genre that has become known in recent years, where most if not the entire film is made up of people talking on webcam from their computers or phones. Horror and thrillers utilize this the best, and the Unfriended franchise is of the former category.

Unfriended )

Unfriended: Dark Web )

I don't know if there are plans of continuing with the Unfriended franchise or just remain a duology, but I have to say both movies were quite good for what they were. If it were to continue on, I would prefer it to be anthology-based. It would be on brand, since both these were stand-alone movies anyway, though perhaps it could be an expanded universe similar to that of V/H/S where the movies are in the same world just not connected to one another.
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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-06-21 07:10 am

But I was cruising Gawain in the mist

Thanks to the effects of prolonged illness on my body, I have even more difficulty with it these days than in previous difficult years, but [personal profile] spatch took a picture of me on the way down the hill of Powder House Park that looked like I could still be the prow of a ship.



Listening to the radio in the car and tracking down songs at home, I seem to have amassed a small collection of music videos, more recent than not. I had never seen the studly single entrendres that accompany the blues-rock boasts of Elle King's "Ex's and Oh's" (2015). Rob identified the scratchy guitar chug in Sarah Barrios' "Thank God You Introduced Me to Your Sister" (2021) as a callback to Fountains of Wayne and thence the Cars, but it is a sapphic banger in its own right. It is generationally lovely to have the London Gay Men's Chorus backing up the acoustic version of Isaac Dunbar's "American High" (2024). Jean Dawson's "Pirate Radio" (2022) rocks like an Afrofuturist anthem and an autobiographical chantey at the same time. If it ever crossed your mind to wonder about a cross between the Preacher in True Stories (1986) and the High Voltage Messiah of The Ruling Class (1972), there's John C. Reilly in Jack White's "Archbishop Harold Holmes" (2025). The vintage riot grrrl of Halsey's "Safeword" (2025) is enthusiastically not safe for work. Patrick Wolf's "The Last of England" (2025) has so much Jarman in its DNA, it is almost gilding the lily to have filmed at Dungeness except that it feels like the correct acknowledgement. I just like the oneiric stop-motion of Witch Prophet's "Memory (feat. Begonia)" (2023).
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darkjediqueen ([personal profile] darkjediqueen) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-06-21 06:52 am

Background Challenge: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: No Longer In The Background

Title: No Longer In The Background
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship
Summary: Donny was no longer in the background of her life.
Word Count: 2,126


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lhune ([personal profile] lhune) wrote in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day2025-06-21 11:42 am

Saturday 21/06/2025

1) Did some shopping before the heat really started

2) Yum fennel salad for lunch

3) It remains nice and cool in my flat. Ideal for reading a book or watching a series ^_^
Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books ([syndicated profile] smartbitches_feed) wrote2025-06-21 08:00 am

Book Beat: Pickleball, Bingo Recs, & More

Posted by Amanda

Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on a list of underrated romances! Think of Book Beat as Teen Beat or Tiger Beat, but for books. And no staples to open to get the fold-out poster.

All’s Fair in Love and Pickleball

All’s Fair in Love and Pickleball by Kate Spencer

Author: Kate Spencer
Released: June 3, 2025 by Forever
Genre: ,

Pickleball rivalry? Sure. Falling for your fake boyfriend? Now that’s a surprise.

Bex Martin’s racquet club is her entire world. But the business she inherited from her mother has started to feel more like a sinking ship. That is, until Nikolaus Karras—a former tennis bad-boy with an ego as big as his serve—makes himself at home on her courts.

Niko has something to prove, and a high-stakes pickleball tournament is just what he needs to get back in the game after a career-ending injury. When he is finally able to set his ego aside to ask for Bex’s help, everyone assumes that they are a couple—on and off the court.

But she needs the prize money to save the club, and he needs a win to restore his reputation. So now they have a fake relationship as well as a doubles partner that they can’t seem to resist. Game on!

I’m honestly confounded by the pickleball craze, but this book would work for SBTB Summer Bingo if you’re looking for a sport that isn’t hockey, American football, or baseball.

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Love on the Air

Love on the Air by Ash London

Author: Ash London
Released: April 1, 2025 by Allen & Unwin
Genre: ,

A vibrant enemies-to-lovers romance full of radio drama and unexpected love stories, from beloved radio presenter and podcaster Ash London.

‘The best read-in-the-bath love story.’ Kate Langbroek

‘Will blow you away … beautifully (and accurately) written.’ Fifi Box

Radio young gun Alex York is used to knowing – and getting – exactly what she wants.

But when she blows up her glamorous career and retreats to a tropical island, for the first time in her life she has no plan, no prospects and, increasingly, no money.

Lured back to the real world by the breakfast radio gig of a lifetime, she promises herself she’ll never let anyone throw her off course again – not her patronisingly old-school CEO, her network arch-nemesis or even her unexpectedly attractive new boss …

Laugh-out-loud funny and bursting with heart, Love on the Air is a deliciously escapist rom-com set in the dazzling world of commercial radio and celebrity musicians.

‘Funny and fresh and feisty and fierce and simply fabulous. I couldn’t put it down.’ Kate Langbroek

‘Ash has delivered not only an exceptional story of love but also an intriguing and addictive insight into all the intricate nuances of the media and radio scene … this first novel will blow you away. It’s beautifully (and accurately) written. Congratulations Ash – you’ve nailed it.’ Fifi Box

Another Bingo rec! If you need a “character working in audio” book for the SBTB Summer Romance Bingo, this would fit the bill.

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Magic in the Melanin

Magic in the Melanin by The Melanin Library

Author: The Melanin Library
Released: February 18, 2025 by Written in Melanin Publishing
Genre:

In this anthology, everybody is Black.

Filled with epic battles, complicated families, soft kisses, and sharpened blades, Magic in the Melanin is an adult fantasy anthology that showcases Black authors who write magical stories of all kinds. Featuring full-page artwork to accompany your adventure through the pages, this anthology is what fantasy looks like when Blackness is centered and the imaginations of Black creators are unhindered. Dive into these stories and discover countless worlds where magic is truly in the melanin.

The proceeds from this anthology will go to supporting the Melanin Library, an online database of books written by Black authors. Share and support to ensure the library remains a free resource for everyone.

A whole fantasy anthology with Black characters written by Black authors. Saw this one on L. Penelope’s website. 

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Renegade Girls

Renegade Girls by Nora Neus

Author: Nora Neus
Released: April 1, 2025 by Little, Brown Ink
Genre: , , ,

“Direct but not too heavy, bright with color and gentle in tone, Neus’s graphic novel is an absolute dream of an afternoon read.”  The New York Times

A swoonworthy queer romance set against a riveting story of social change in the 1880s, this historical graphic novel reimagines the life of America’s first stunt girl—a young undercover reporter—and her whirlwind summer of romance and fighting injustice. 

Seventeen-year-old Helena “Nell” Cusack came to New York this summer looking for a story—a real story. She dreams of one day writing hard-hitting articles for the New York Chronicle, but so far she’s only managed to land a job as a lowly society reporter. That is, until Alice Austen strolls into her life, an audacious street photographer who encourages Nell to shake up polite society…and maybe also take a chance on love.

When her best friend, Lucia, is injured while working in a garment factory, Nell is determined to crack the story wide open. Posing as a seamstress, she reports on the conditions from the inside, making a name for herself as the Chronicle’s first ever stunt girl. But as Nell’s reporting gains momentum, so do the objections of those who oppose her. Will Nell continue to seek justice—even if it hurts her in the end?

Based on real-life stunt girl Nell Nelson and photographer Alice Austen, this tenderly drawn narrative is about bringing buried stories to light and the bravery of first love.

Sarah posted this in the SBTB slack! It’s a queer YA historical fiction graphic novel. The graphic novel space for YA and middle grade readers has an abundance of options. 

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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-06-21 04:27 am

Treat for The Mod Crew: The Silhouette

Title: The Silhouette
Recipient: The Mod Crew
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Canon or Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes watson
Rating: G

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