We’re talking books this week–what I’ve been reading, a nifty tool that lets you revisit your Kindle highlights, and of course the usual meme-y silliness. Oh, and weather bragging. We must have weather bragging. With apologies to those of you who live where winter exists: Feel free to gloat in June when it’ll be approximately 872F here in Satan’s Anus. Right now it’s my turn. Now that I have the weather bragging out of my system: Welcome to the Weekend Coffee Share, hosted by Natalie the Explorer, and the What’s On Your Bookshelf challenge, hosted by Sue, Donna, Jo and Deb. Grab a treat, have a seat, and let’s get to it. The Christmas horror story is done! I’ve whined off and on this year about how I’m struggling to get writing done. That’s still true, but I did finish a story last weekend (finally!). It’s called “The Fine Print,” and it’s a ~9200-word Christmas horror story about a grieving father who picks the wrong man to bare his soul to. I submitted it for the annual Deathlehem anthology and I’m now checking my Gmail every 1.9 seconds for a response. Because that’s a perfectly normal, mentally healthy thing to do. Of course it is. We writers are known for our healthy habits and constructive coping devices. Books! Here’s what I’ve read since my last What’s On Your Bookshelf post: Readwise: Revisit Kindle highlights and more Do you highlight lots of passages in your Kindle books, then never look at those passages again? Me too! And now there’s a product for people like us. Meet Readwise! [Full disclosure: that’s an affiliate link, so I get a small cut in my subscription cost if you use it to sign up.] Readwise gathers your highlights from Kindle, Libby, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, and more. Then it compiles a few of them into a daily email so you can revisit them. You can also export your highlights to other tools like Evernote and Notion or as .csv or Markdown files, though I haven’t tried those features. The daily email can be configured to include passages from recommended books based on your highlights (you don’t want to know how many books I’ve added to my to-read list because of that feature), and you can mark certain passages as favorites or remove them from the rotation. I look forward to reading my daily Readwise email because it’s both interesting and fun to revisit passages that resonated with me. If you want to try Readwise, you can get a 30-day free trial without supplying any credit card info. Memes for Book Nerds If my TBR list becomes sentient: As memes go, this next one’s dead accurate: Spoiler alert: Gandalf has failed me. Unless you consider taking minutes at the next library faculty meeting to be an adventure. With my luck, this is the kind of adventure I’ll get taken on: Or maybe this one: And finally: *swoon* Hopefully Long-Suffering Husband will be role-playing some of those romantic fantasies this weekend because we have a guest coming to visit next week, and the house looks like a tornado hit a meth lab. Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans! (I think the rest of you already celebrated Thanksgiving, right? So have a happy ordinary, non-turkey-focused week.)