Bookish clubs I would join

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is a Freebie. I'm going with bookish clubs I would join but mostly I just enjoy making up titles. For more Top Ten Tuesday, visit That Artsy Reader Girl here.

01 - The Guild of Notorious Skim Readers — enjoy skim-reading with others who also think it's okay to skip the boring parts

02 - The Chapters and Cakes League — come and eat cake and maybe read a chapter or two of a book but mostly eat cake

03 - The Sisterhood of Literary Feminine Accuracy — complain about the mistakes of female characters in books written by male authors

04 - The Fellowship of the Tome — read chunky books and complain about their length

05 - The Association of Sleepy Readers — pick books, complain about them and then vote not to read them, then take a nap

06 - The Spook Society — get together with other scaredy cats and read scary books that are maybe not too scary

07 - The Civilized Society of Murder Mystery Maniacs — join other murder mystery lovers in reading and nitpicking murder mysteries

08 - The Society of Obstinate & Persnickety Readers — For people who are very, very picky of what they read

09 - Miss Marple's Knit & Snitch Bookish Society — come and join us for some knitting and snitching and maybe even read a book

10 - The League of Trifle Knowledge — join us in the search for the meanings of life in the small corners of bookish worlds

What book club would you like to join?

Words for Wednesday Prompts - Feb. 1, 2023

This February, I'm the host for Words for Wednesday. Words for Wednesday was started by Delores and now is hosted by various people on various blogs. The aim of Words for Wednesday is to encourage us to write using some or all of the prompts. This week's prompts are:
1 - missing
2 - pillow
3 - rattle
4 - flight
5 - beginning
6 - shabby
7 - time

You may write your piece in the comments or post it on your blog. If posting on your blog, please leave a direct link to the post so we can all visit you. Have fun writing!

Seven Things: Just some thoughts

01 - I brought this lovely calendar by Botanikum (link here). Though the calendar starts on a Monday when I'm so used to it starting on a Sunday so I might get confused using the calendar. I seem to keep buying floral wall calendars. I used to get those page-a-day desk calendars but since they stopped putting out the floral version, I decided the heck with desk calendars and anyway, wall calendar are nicer but only if you're able to get a decently large one. For some odd reason, most wall calendar are pretty small unless you get the foldable 12x12 version which I dislike.

Botanikum calender January page

02 - I spent 90 dollars on an app that should remove adware but after it did its job, I still see the same gross looking ads. I don't know why I see these gross ads. I clean my browser's cache a million times. I update the browser a million times as well. I got the stupid app to remove adware but nothing works. Wordpress blogs (the free version) is where I see those gross ads the most. I actually think ads are useful and sometimes allows me to do some window shopping but I just don't get these gross-out ads. So now I got an ad blocker named AdBlock which is an extension for Firefox. It seems to work but I'm still testing it. Here's a post from Mozilla that helped me decided on this particular ad blocker - link here.

03 - I like to complain about things and then forget about it. I think it's the best way to deal with bad things. Dwelling on them is useless and keeps your mind on it too long that you might end up hating the world. So I say, complain and then forget about it.

04 - I have been re-reading (sometimes skim-reading) L. M. Montgomery books for next month's We Love L. M. Montgomery Week (Feb. 20-24) hosted by Rachel at Hamlette's Soliloquy. I have decided on writing two posts for this event. You can find more about We Love L. M. Montgomery Week here.

05 - Two of the best emails I got this month is from two newsletter people (what's the word opposite of subscriber?) telling me I haven't been reading their newsletters and they are starting a new list and they will delete my email from their list unless I say otherwise. This is great news to me. I am the type that are too lazy to unsubscribe from emails I don't read, I just ignore them so it's nice to be removed from a list without doing anything.
     I think all companies should do this also with web accounts because who have the patience trying to remove themselves from a company's website when they never ever have a delete account button (and if they had one, you had to search for it)? But it's easier to unsubscribe from email newsletters than it is to delete an account from a website. I know I have tried. One company told me their computers would all go berserk if I had my account deleted which is hilarious and kind of scary because if every company runs their computers this way, then aren't we all screwed? Are there companies with their computers exploding or shutting down at every moment because I'm certain somewhere someone wants or is going to delete an account.

06 - Some silly author is telling people not to show books they have dnf (did not finish) and that people shouldn't say they didn't like a book and they shouldn't say something bad about a book. To that I say, what the heck? Is this person saying having opinions and expressing them is wrong? If you put your book out there, it is meant to be judged and if you think just because you worked hard on a book means people can't trash it, then what planet are you living on? Just keep your book to yourself then you will never ever have people saying anything bad about your book.

07 - I still do not have email subscription for my blog. Would people be interested if I send them an email when I have new posts? I don't have many readers so I can email people with a short snippets of posts and links. Probably not a lot of emails as I don't post often. Is this a good idea, bad idea?

Got anything you want to share? Feel free to say them in the comments.