Sep. 18th, 2023
Puzzles: Free to good homes
Sep. 18th, 2023 09:09 amI de-cluttered my puzzles and have a lot to get rid of.
If you would like jigsaw puzzle(s) (I have 300, 500, 750, 1000, and even one 2000 piece), please DM me on DW with your address. Or you can send it to me at okapi1895@gmail.com
Most of them are Buffalo Games puzzles with art by Charles Wysocki so New England late 19th century town & farm scenes with horse drawn buggies. But I have 4 750 puzzles of his that are part of his Cats series. Look here for examples: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/tag/puzzles
Free (as many as you want) to a good home (anywhere in the world, I will pay postage). I will leave this up until Thursday.
If you would like jigsaw puzzle(s) (I have 300, 500, 750, 1000, and even one 2000 piece), please DM me on DW with your address. Or you can send it to me at okapi1895@gmail.com
Most of them are Buffalo Games puzzles with art by Charles Wysocki so New England late 19th century town & farm scenes with horse drawn buggies. But I have 4 750 puzzles of his that are part of his Cats series. Look here for examples: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/tag/puzzles
Free (as many as you want) to a good home (anywhere in the world, I will pay postage). I will leave this up until Thursday.
Book Bingo: Complete!
Sep. 18th, 2023 04:44 pmAll the thanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kingstoken for organizing the bingo.
Banned Book: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Banned for incest and pedophilia. It's not an easy book to read but it is beautifully written.
Book on Your TBR List: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder. I purchased this book months and months ago but hadn't yet read it. It's a very informative book (which I will keep and try to apply its principles of movie script writing to my own storytelling through ficcing). But the author is very much a Hollywood person. Very obnoxious. So I have to wade through a lot of capitalist, celebrity, materialistic bullshit to get to the ideas (which are good, how to structure a story). He shits on the film Memento and holds films like Miss Congeniality and Legally Blonde (which made a lot of money), but it was funny because as I got to that part, I realized I had just rented Memento from the library because I like it so much (because it's so different from normal movies).
Free Space: The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo. This has been my 'bag book' (the book in my purse/bag which I read at soccer practice, swimming lesson, etc.) A recently translated from the Japanese originally written in 1951. I have read the four earlier in the series and it is typical of them. Family drama (incest!) and a very high body count and a locked room murder and Kosuke Kindaichi as detective.
LGBT+: The Secret Life of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles. I DNF my first choice for this so I elected something I knew I would like. You can't go wrong with M/M romance with KJ Charles. It was enjoyable, light and sentimental and predictable (but not in a bad way). One of the protagonists is interested in newts so I kept thinking of Gussie Fink-Nottle.
Disability or Mental Health: About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited by Peter Catapano and Rosamarie Garland-Thomson. This was good. Each essay is very short 2-4 pages and they are from people with all kinds of disabilities covering all different aspects of life. I would recommend it. The one line that sticks with me is that one of the writers mentioned Jesus asking the blind man what he wanted before healing him and the author made the point that Jesus' first gift was the gift of agency. That was cool.
Recommended: Servant of Death by Sarah Hawkswood which is the first in the Bradecote and Catchpoll series. A medieval mystery. Very similar to Cadfael but the ones investigating are not clerics (but this first murder does take place in an abbey). This was recommended bysmallhobbit and I have been meaning to give it a go (given how much I like Cadfael). I knew it was a book that Hobbit liked because everyone was competent at their job. A very enjoyable mystery.
Book published the year you were born: 1975 was a good year for Stephen King. He published Salem's Lot. Having read the original Dracula many times, it was easy to connect the dots. And it does show the truth of the death of small towns (literally and figurative). I didn't like the protagonist so I am sad the vampires didn't get him but the boy got away, too. This was an audiobook version (~18 hours) and Ron McLarty (a narrator I didn't know) did a solid job.
And that's a blackout! Wheee!
Thanks again tokingstoken. See you next year!
( The full list )
kingstoken for organizing the bingo. 
Banned Book: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Banned for incest and pedophilia. It's not an easy book to read but it is beautifully written.
Book on Your TBR List: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder. I purchased this book months and months ago but hadn't yet read it. It's a very informative book (which I will keep and try to apply its principles of movie script writing to my own storytelling through ficcing). But the author is very much a Hollywood person. Very obnoxious. So I have to wade through a lot of capitalist, celebrity, materialistic bullshit to get to the ideas (which are good, how to structure a story). He shits on the film Memento and holds films like Miss Congeniality and Legally Blonde (which made a lot of money), but it was funny because as I got to that part, I realized I had just rented Memento from the library because I like it so much (because it's so different from normal movies).
Free Space: The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo. This has been my 'bag book' (the book in my purse/bag which I read at soccer practice, swimming lesson, etc.) A recently translated from the Japanese originally written in 1951. I have read the four earlier in the series and it is typical of them. Family drama (incest!) and a very high body count and a locked room murder and Kosuke Kindaichi as detective.
LGBT+: The Secret Life of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles. I DNF my first choice for this so I elected something I knew I would like. You can't go wrong with M/M romance with KJ Charles. It was enjoyable, light and sentimental and predictable (but not in a bad way). One of the protagonists is interested in newts so I kept thinking of Gussie Fink-Nottle.
Disability or Mental Health: About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited by Peter Catapano and Rosamarie Garland-Thomson. This was good. Each essay is very short 2-4 pages and they are from people with all kinds of disabilities covering all different aspects of life. I would recommend it. The one line that sticks with me is that one of the writers mentioned Jesus asking the blind man what he wanted before healing him and the author made the point that Jesus' first gift was the gift of agency. That was cool.
Recommended: Servant of Death by Sarah Hawkswood which is the first in the Bradecote and Catchpoll series. A medieval mystery. Very similar to Cadfael but the ones investigating are not clerics (but this first murder does take place in an abbey). This was recommended by
smallhobbit and I have been meaning to give it a go (given how much I like Cadfael). I knew it was a book that Hobbit liked because everyone was competent at their job. A very enjoyable mystery. Book published the year you were born: 1975 was a good year for Stephen King. He published Salem's Lot. Having read the original Dracula many times, it was easy to connect the dots. And it does show the truth of the death of small towns (literally and figurative). I didn't like the protagonist so I am sad the vampires didn't get him but the boy got away, too. This was an audiobook version (~18 hours) and Ron McLarty (a narrator I didn't know) did a solid job.
And that's a blackout! Wheee!
Thanks again to
kingstoken. See you next year!( The full list )