Grumpy Beastie's Other Lair

I put myself on a little "vacation" where it's quiet, people are not apt to bother me, and I can borrow a computer. I've been catching things up and I have stumbled upon a bingo. I'm going to keep going with the card until I have a blackout, but I am impressed that I managed to actually use every book I've read so far for a fill and that there is a bingo. Usually, it doesn't work out that way.

Book in a Series	Author You've Never Read Before	Book Older than You Are	Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling	Graphic Novel or Comic
Pet or Animal Companion	A Main Character Over the Age of 30	LGBTQ+	Multiple POVs	Under 100 Pages
Romance Plot or Sub-Plot	Translated	FREE SPACE!	Humour	Non-Fiction
Thriller or Suspense	With a Blue Cover	POC Author	Horror or Paranormal	Colour in the Title
Seasonal Read	Book from Your TBR	Crime or Mystery	Sci-Fi or Fantasy	Banned Book

With a Blue Cover: Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition Book 1 by W. Maxwell Prince
Non-Fiction: Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein's Creator by Catherine Reef
POC Author: The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon
Romance Plot or Sub-Plot: A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair
Multiple POVs: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
A Main Character Over the Age of 30: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Thriller or Suspense: The Writing Retreat: A novel by Julia Bartz
Book From Your TBR: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling: Chivalry by Neil Gaiman &
Crime or Mystery: Resident Alien Omnibus vol 1 by Peter Hogan
Graphic Novel or Comic: My Favorite Thing is Monsters vol 1 by Emil Ferris
Sci-Fi or Fantasy: Nimona by ND Stevenson
Horror or Paranormal: The Only One Left by Riley Sager
LGBTQ+: A Guest in the House by Emily Carrol
Author You've Never Read Before: The Bad Ones: A Novel by Melissa Albert
Book in a Series: Lumberjanes vol 11: Time After Crime by Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters
Pet or Animal Companion: Lumberjanes vol 12: Jackalope Springs Eternal by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, & Maarta Laiho
Humor: Lumberjanes vol 13: Indoor Recess by Kat Leyh, Maarta Laiho, & Shannon Watters

This is definitely not complete, especially the Webtoons list, but it's as complete as I could make it. A lot of the non-fiction books are also graphic novels. Most of the novels are book club picks, including the Colleen Hoover one. My Adventures with Superman is new animated series on HBO. Adventures of Superman is a live action series from the 1950s.

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hhd: 70 Last Month Things

inspired by malurette and my love of making lists

non fiction
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

gen lit
The Long Walk by Stephen King (Richard Bachman)
The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lillian Jackson Braun
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

children/ya
The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill

graphic novels/manga
My Favorite Thing is Monsters, vol. 1 by Emil Ferris
Tokyo Ghoul, vol. 6 by Sui Ishida
Red Sonja, vol. 1: The Queen of Plagues by Gail Simone
Red Sonja, vol. 2: The Art of Blood and Fire by Gail Simone
Lone Wolf and Cub, vol 1: The Assassin's Road by Kazuo Koike

individual comics
Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1 – 6 by Mark Russell

movies
The Woman in Black

series
Private Practice
Haven
Supernatural
Doctor Who
Doc Martin
Traders
Law and Order
The Woman in White

Well today was...different. To start off with it was storming really hard this morning but then by afternoon it had stopped. For the rest of the day it couldn't decide between being sunny or cloudy. I went to lunch with my dad. We went to the bowling alley of course. We chatted, we ate, the usual. It also turns out that my favorite restaurant, Lee's, is shut down. I also didn't do a very good job of screening my calls because now I'm helping my aunt move the hospital bed tomorrow. I did start a new book today. Its an autobiography called If It Die by Andre Gide. Its a nice read really. It has a nice flow to it. Its kind of witty and sad in a beautiful way if that makes any sense. Most of the day was spent snuggling the kitty. She hasn't left me alone all day. I wasn't "feeling well" so I lit my favorite candles. They are the rainbow tea lights I keep in the Indian (as in country in Asia) style dish, my beeswax sweet pea scented breast cancer candle, my Nirvana scented Karmic Cube I keep in the purple glass holder, my pomegranite scented candle in the Him tin, and my white pillar candle. It worked for awhile, then mom came home. I went to the post office today and my Revolver, Spin, and Jane magazines came. I was all excited to read them and then I remembered I also have the stack of magazines that came for me while I was at school. I still read them but then it seemed like more of a chore than entertainment. I think mom broke my shredder. She has been the only one to use it since January and now it doesn't work. It seems like a reasonable assessment to me. I accidentally broke a bowl today making dinner (tuna sandwich with coconut cream pie and chocolate milk). It fell out of the cupboard as I was closing it, bounced off the counter, and exploded when it hit the floor in to tiny shards that went from one end of the room all the way into the laundry room. I have been toying with the idea of doing my hair up in kind of a pony tail mohawk for years but when I went into the living room to get my cd player as I was hiding in my room waiting for House to come on, some guy on American Idol had his hair that way. I have now decided against it, but I still maintain that my hair would have been way cooler. Today on the news they showed something about some prison doing Inmate Idol. The winner and his cell block or section or whatever won food from Pizza Hut and McDonald's as a prize. The judges were an Elvis impersonator, Alice Cooper, and the county sheriff. I have also discovered there is such a thing as press on toe nails. No Comment. *shivers* I also finally found my cell phone today. I had a text from Martini and she is sad. I wish i could go to her and make her happy, perhaps by bringing Ville with me wrapped in a pretty bow. I also don't know if I like this Simply Sleep stuff. I sleep but it give me weird dreams, well not weird more like unpleasant and annoying. As Scarlett once said "tomorrow is another day."

Website of the day: http://www.hugemagazine.com/pattern/index.html