Nightstand: Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce.

Coffee table: My GIA class notes!! Makers marks, the content of alloys, and vocab words galore.

Kindle: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth and The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley. I’m a fast reader and I spent 10 hours on planes this weekend. I’m in the middle of Horses, at the beginning of Cameron Post and also finished Libba Bray’s Going Bovine and Tamora Pierce’s Trickster’s Choice.

Audiobook: In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce. We had to take a hiatus on this one because the library loan ended and there was a short wait to get it back.

Internets:

Most important link of the day right here! I am co-hosting an online book club for The DC Ladies and November is the first month!! My fabulous cohost is kicking things off by leading us through Where’d you go, Bernadette? It is not to be missed.

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Wedding Band Fetches $118K at Auction – I find this fascinating. You have to wonder about the motivation of the person who bought it.

One of my Book Riot peers wrote this very thoughtful piece in response to the news of a mom who is editing out the scary parts of Harry Potter as she reads it to her child.

Museum of Science Fiction May Become Reality In D.C. – EPIC. Would you visit?

I wrote a roundup of bookish wedding cakes for Book Riot. The Game of Thrones cake is beautiful and it warms my heart that someone had a Dune wedding cake. Which is your favorite?

This is an entire farm filled ONLY with miniture animals. Why haven’t you clicked yet?

World’s Largest Paraiba Tourmaline Unveiled – You know I love me some Paraiba, and this one is incredible. What do you think of the necklace? I think I’d prefer to see that stone in a simpler piece. Something that magnificent doesn’t need so much embellishment.

This fabulous interview with a romance novel author includes the phrase “real heroines rip their own bodices.” What more do you need to know?

Nightstand: The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce. Rereading because I just read her new book about Briar and Rosethorn (Battle Magic) and one book of Briar is never enough.

Coffee table:  Fire by Kristen Cashore.  LOVE this book. Rereading to research for a Book Riot post.

Kindle: Graceling by Kristen Cashore. Sensing a pattern?

Audiobook: In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce. YA all around!

Internets:

20 Photos of Famous Authors in Awesome Costumes – Epic. Writers know how to party.

There’s no reason you’d want to skip reading an article called “Did Cervantes Invent the Turducken?”

I could never possibly spend enough time looking at the Miniature Libraries of Marc Giai-Miniet. SO WONDERFUL.

A Pug Dressed as a Wrecking Ball Won $25,000 in a Costume Contest – I think this was well earned.

5 Cozy Bread Bowls to Hold Your Soup (and Your Dreams) – YES. This. It is all I want.

People have been making noise recently about possibly changing the racial slur that my hometown’s football team uses as its name (and its accompanying offensive caricature of a mascot). I’m not a football fan, but I think this name change is long overdue.

Get a peek at the mockingjay dress in this new Catching Fire footage. What do you think?

Nightstand: The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce.

Coffee table: Fire by Kristen Cashore.  LOVE this book. Rereading to research for a Book Riot post.

Kindle: Graceling by Kristen Cashore. Sensing a pattern?

Audiobook: Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede. These books are marvelous as audiobooks. Marvelous.

Internets:

The OED (my favorite dictionary) is considering adding some new words! Most of them are ridiculous. Which do you think should go in?

Case of 11 year old girl shows we shouldn’t use BMI testing in schools to shame kids – Dear world: please stop this.

This 1940’s hair and makeup tutorial is fabulous. If there were several more hours in a day, I would look like this sometimes.

Janet Yellen will be the first lady Fed chair! Way to blaze trails, Yellen.

This wedding is lovely. The elephant cake topper! It warms my heart.

Pricescope’s jewel of the week this week is this rose gold, bezel-set, floral-inspired engagement ring. I think it’s lovely. Just the right amount of sweetness.

Hot Boozy Concoctions for Fall. Because: yes. My winter drink of choice is generally Adult Hot Chocolate (Bailey’s!) but I can’t wait to try the Bishop and the Sweet Tea Hot Toddy.

These bejeweled skeletons are amazing. (They’re very old and decorative, but they are real. Don’t click the link if you don’t want to see pictures of skeletons.)

What are YOU reading?