• Still reading Glass by Ellen Hopkins (it’s a long book). Finished Sweetgirl. Picked up nothing new. Full reviews on everything coming your way on Tuesday, March 8 for Show Us Your Books with me and Steph. Hopefully iTunes will approve The Armchair Librarians by then. If not, we’ll have the audio for you available somewhere as a sneak preview.
• Speaking of podcasts, the creator of Welcome to Night Vale has a new podcast releasing on Tuesday. It’s called Alice Isn’t Dead. I am so excited for it!!
• Had the Mondayist of Mondays. I sent my kid to school with a half-wet shirt, got her to school late because Monday, threw a chair at my fence to startle my dog away from a dismembered rabbit carcass after I had to yell at the other dog to spit out what he was consuming, and my cat ran away from home. This was all before noon.
• Found out that next Friday, Bosch season 2 will be on Amazon. Kathy turned me on to the show and I’ve been eagerly awaiting this release.
• My friend’s daughter followed me on Instagram. I corrected the grammar in her profile. I couldn’t stop myself.
• I go to this conference every year, FinCon, and run a live mentoring session. This year, I decided that, in addition to the mentoring, I would submit a proposal for a panel. Found out earlier this week that the panel was accepted! I am terrified at the thought of all the public speaking but I’m trying to push myself outside my comfort zone. This should do it.
• Saw Deadpool. You guys. This movie was fucking awesome. And that is coming directly from someone who, as a general rule and preference, hates comic book movies. When the movie’s opening credits have Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning” playing over them, you know you’re in for something pretty damn special. However, please do not take small children (like anyone under 10) to see it. It’s really, REALLY inappropriate. There were times I thought I shouldn’t be watching it. And I’m knocking on 40’s door.
• Internet reads are absent this week because a) I didn’t really read much of interest (fell down a Gawker rabbit hole, though) and b) forgot to save the links to share.
• Funnies:

Have a great weekend! See you back on Tuesday for Show Us Your Books!!

P.S. Would guys mind helping promote my pitch contest? It’d be much appreciated! Here’s the link: https://janalynchbooks.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/pitch-me-with-your-best-shot/

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• Finished The Woman Who Stole My Life and am halfway through Remember Mia. Picked up no new books which is fine because I have 6 more on my nightstand and approximately 8 billion on my Kindle.
• Recorded podcast episode #3 with my Show Us Your Books partner in crime, Steph. Look for that to launch on the same day as the next SUYB, March 9.
• Made a pretty cool dinner. It was seasoned pork chops (which I ordinarily do not like but this way was palatable), roasted potatoes and green beans, both tossed with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and all put on the same pan to cook (at 425). I sort of set the smoke alarm off and proceeded to not only run my daughter out of the house (literally) and frighten all the animals but the end result was a good (and mostly not burned) meal.
• Right now is prime TV season for me. All the shows I like are on or are coming back in the next month or two so I’ve been stacking them all in my DVR for a good TV session over the weekend. And I know I’ve mentioned this show before but it bears repeating. American Crime (not to be confused with the OJ story on FX; this show is on ABC) is unbelievable. This season is tackling issues no one tackles on TV, at least not in a non-tabloid way (yes, SVU, I’m looking at you) and if you’re not watching it, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s HARD to watch. Really fucking hard. But important.
• Worked on the foundation for a Twitter pitch contest for work, where I’ll ask people to pitch me their book projects in 140 characters or less. Winner gets a book deal. Still need to run the logistics and legal stuff through the boss man but I’m excited to do it.
• Internet reads: Her Name was Skeeter: The Mystery of the Missing Muppet, found on Mental Floss. A staple in my life, Rolling Stone, had a great piece about the rise and fall of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned, crazy, former maybe also still current leader of a polygamist cult. This awesome letter on The Huffington Post to anyone who feels like they’re falling behind in life. And finally, from Fast Company, 10 research proven things working parents can stop feeling guilty about (I am working on 4 and 5. I’m actually doing really well with most of the others).
• Husband quote of the week: Everyone I needed to talk to about procuring a meteorite was on vacation this week. I think it’s a conspiracy.
• Funnies (they have a theme this week. See if you can find it):

Have a great weekend! See you back on Tuesday with a little rant about something that’s been bothering me lately.

 

 

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Short recap. Let’s do it.

Show Us Your Books is this Tuesday, 2/9/16. Title of my post? What the fuck did I just read? Because literally every book I read last month had me asking that question.

After I quit Owen Meany, I finished Crank, Pretty Girls, and Tampa. Currently reading Violent Ends. Requested an ARC of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new book and I’m waiting on that. Have 7 books on hold at the library. We’ll see what comes of that.

Thanks to a free trial of Showtime, I watched Billions (get on that show if you can) and Brotherhood (an older show that’s also on Amazon Prime). I have not yet gotten around to watching the OJ Simpson miniseries on FX. Has anyone watched it? Is it any good?

Made not one new recipe this week unless you count chicken thighs marinated in balsamic fig salad dressing in the crockpot. I do not because it’s not much different than the normal way I make that particular dish.

Had a book proposal accepted. Sure, it’s with the company I work for but I’m publishing a book. It’s not the one I’ve been working on, it’s a different one, nonfiction, but yay for me!

Decided to give up Paleo coffee creamer in favor of the natural ones from Coffeemate. I just can’t do the coconut milk in my coffee anymore. I don’t like it no matter how much I try.

Broke up with my daughter’s pediatrician for a number of reasons. Specifically, they changed doctors in the practice without letting us know and the doctor they wanted us to have sucks and then tried to cancel our appointment last minute thinking it was okay and all of that is a big fat no. So we decided to change doctors. Best choice ever.

Found out The Duggars are supposedly coming back to TV. So many angry faces. WHY, TLC, WHY? I feel betrayed by you except I’m not entirely unsurprised. Money makes people do strange things.

No nonwork related internet reads this week. Sorry. I’ve been reading about the Flint water crisis, though, and I’m pretty sure that’s too much of  downer for a Friday (but seriously, read up on it if you haven’t. It’s some scary shit).

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Wish us luck as we have our first competition with the new gym on Sunday! And the child’s BFF is coming with us. We’ve never had to manage another child at one of these things. #onlychildparentproblems

Have a great weekend! See you Tuesday for all of your book posts!

 

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