The tale of Tam Lin started as a Scottish ballad featuring a strong-willed heroine, a powerful faerie queen, and a knight in need of rescue. Here are six gripping retellings of this slippery, shapeshifting story! reactormag.com/a-knight-to-...

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

Almost a month late but starting Halloween Bingo with my Secret Reading Room friends! Look at the beautiful card made for me. I'll try to remember this thread, but for master post on my blog: whiskeyinthejarromance.blogspot.com/2025/09/2025... #BookSky #HorrorSky #HorrorBooks #Spooky #Reading

"The level of chaos and the depth of suffering was because of the type of weapon used. At Annunciation, the shooter fired more than 100 rounds with a high-powered rifle. That is why there were so many victims. That is why the injuries were so severe. The type of gun matters. " – Dr. Tim Kummer

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Knight and Day is an underrated movie.

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

No better time to sign-up at your local library!

Sunday’s 11-hour final blowout at the 119-year-old Minneapolis dive bar ended with Cornbread Harris taking longtime patrons to “church” 🎶🙏🏻

This issue of Word Suitcase is all about Judy Cuevas's lavishly messy and complicated 1991 novel BLACK SILK

Possibly the only Minnesotans watching the Twins tonight. #MNTwins #baseball #AngelsStadium

A guest post from author Jill Sorenson (who has a new book out now!) is live over at the Bat Cave. Jill talks about pulp romance and the books that turned her on to the genre wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

Early night for me, tucked in #AmReading The First Liar by MC Rising Tori witnesses her boss' death and suddenly finds herself in a war battling monsters with a rag tag group. This has some tv show Supernatural vibes I'm digging with the incoming spooky season! #BookSky

In a very short time since the tragic mass shooting at Annunciation Church, different people and organizations across the city have made resources available. Whether you are looking for support or ways to help those in need, we’ve compiled some of the resources available.

Today is World Folklore Day! Chosen in honor of the coining of the word 'folklore' by English author and scholar William John Thoms, in a letter published on this day in 1846, it honors the traditional stories of the peoples of the world. #folklore #WorldFolkloreDay #💙📚 #Booksky

"Listen, I know you've got stuff to do, but the TinyCat Webinar is today and I think you're gonna get a lot out of it." Today (Wednesday), 1:00pm EST Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/85882643642 #BookSky #libraries #💙📚

If you like cult favorite vibe body horror, (someone choked to death by their own snot) Body Melt 1993 was absurd fun. Along the lines of The Stuff. Take your aspirin! #HorrorSky #HorrrorMovies

Lunch time plans! #AmReading The Battle of the Bookshops by Poppy Alexander A You've Got Mail vibe with Jules trying to save her aunt's bookshop against her rich childhood foe Roman's new one. Enjoyed The Littlest Library by this author, so I'm excited for this. #BookSky #Romancelandia

#AmReading Love is a War Song by Danica Nava Avery escapes to her grandmother's ranch after a media frenzy becomes too much for her. Cowboy Lucas doesn't like what she represents, but when they're forced to work together, both begin to see under the masks. #BookSky #Romancelandia #MusicSky

August Lane by Regina Black Emotional Ooof story, million things to talk about in this, tried to condense down to a readable #Review. Get your friends/book club to read this with you because you're going to want to talk! whiskeyinthejarromance.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi... #BookSky #Romancelandia

I need to do a rewatch of this

From @prisonculture.bsky.social's intro, an encapsulation of her wisdom about the critical importance of building things: "The world is not transformed primarily by what we think of it. Transformative change happens when we are willing to build the things that we know must exist." p.12.

#Reading Getting some morning reading in with: August Lane by Regina Black Country music stars reuniting after a song writing betrayal with second chance romance. Feel like there could be some delicious tension in this one! #BookSky #Romancelandia #ContemporaryRomance #MusicSky

One of my favorite Banana-Pants Presents is on sale for $1.99 - Expecting a Royal Scandal by Caitlin Crews. Come for the delicious banter stay for the thrice-married virgin (!) heroine. My review from last year: wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2024/06/tbrc... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

The DON'T LET YOUR DUKES GROW UP TO BE SCOUNDRELS and WHERE HAVE ALL THE SCOUNDRELS GONE audiobooks were already discounted, but now they're free! They're great! Links below.👇

Orange is not loud~it’s steady, like the way morning touches your face.... #photography #orange #sunrise

Will be in Anaheim beginning of Sept., any recs for things to do (no Disney) and places to eat? Best dive bars especially appreciated! Going for my baseball trip, so 2 nights at 6pm and one 3pm game and will not be dressed up for fancy doings. #Anaheim #Tourism

A #Reading on the deck night. The Gilded Heiress by Joanna Shupe (Aug. 25) The marketing mentioned Anastasia, I'm only human! (and singing Once Upon A December) Josie the orphan singing on the street corner gets pulled into Leo the hustler plans. #BookSky #Romancelandia #HistoricalRomance

I'm regretting waiting to take my baseball trip until Sept. 🫠 Why trade Bader???

What happens after rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire, but don't quite win? A novella trilogy about choosing hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life on the utopian planet Refuge. #Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #spaceopera #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐 books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

#FridayReads A Flower Traveled in my Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland About the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo who searched for their missing and stolen family members during/after the El Proceso campaign and dictatorship in 1970s/80s Argentina. #BookSky #NonFiction

I talked to KCRW about how, since the 1980s, political leaders have framed homelessness as a problem of individual pathology—a tactic to conceal its economic roots, justify removing unhoused people from public space, and divert scrutiny from a system that both creates and profits off this precarity.

Big day, the release of the new food that will be at the MN State Fair!

#Reading Silver Lining by Maggie Osborne. What a prologue for a romance, oozing pustules and pools of vomit. 😂 Buddy reading this over on StoryGraph, should be fun to discuss, lol. #BookSky #Romancelandia

Alt text (because accessibility is a part of justice): You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale Date: July 8-11, 2025 Location: Bookshop.org Enjoy free shipping and the knowledge that your money will go toward supporting independent bookstores, not billionaires

#Reading The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore This Monday's goodies, Strawberry Lemon Scone and contemporary romance. Free-spirit Iris and new in town intense chef Archer, are finding love this time in Dream Harbor. #BookSky #Romancelandia

everyone should be safe in public spaces. ideally everyone should also FEEL safe in public spaces! but if your discomfort is based on being racist or homophobic or not wanting to see a homeless guy or a mentally ill person, none of whom are a threat to you, i don't really care how safe you feel.

#reading Smile for the Cameras by Miranda Smith 20yrs ago, Ella was in a cult slasher classic, but walked away from the fame. Returning to film a reunion doc, actors are meeting their gruesome movie fates. Who's the murderer and can Ella be a final girl again? Summer slashing! #BookSky #horror

#BookReview My #TBRChallenge post, only a week late Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale whiskeyinthejarromance.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi... Tl;dr: Imperfect characters who made awful and heroic choices and a second half that was mostly about war PTSD #BookSky #Romancelandia #HistoricalRomance

Need this to send the strongest possible message to racists islamophobes genocide worshippers sex predators and politicians who stand for absolutely nothing to get the fuck out of here

Ugh, congrats, again, Panthers. Enjoy your summer adventures Stanley!

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It almost feels on time for me that I'm starting (going to try and sneak reading in during hockey intermissions 😂) my #TBRChallenge the night before. Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale They better be road tripping in this! I've been promised pirates 👀 #Booksky #Romancelandia #AmReading

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

#Reading Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou Joining a buddy read over on Discord for this! A reimagining of Bluebeard, anyone that knows me, knows I always show up for those. Can't wait for some chills and thrills :) #BookSky #Horror

Purposefully leave extra cheese around to do this