A Hot Date With A Good Book

Chronicling a Long-Term Love Affair with Literature

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

[blasphemous-lies-and-deceit]

REMINDER TO ALL YOU YOUNG PEOPLE:

Do Not Take A Picture of Your Ballot

It is illegal. Your vote will be thrown out and not counted.

DO NOT post it on Facebook, or Twitter, or Snapchat or Instagram or Tumblr or ANYTHING. Don’t share it with your friends. The likes and notes are not worth it. Just keep your phones in your damn pockets the entire time you’re voting.Take a cute selfie with the “I Voted” sticker afterwards instead.

Please don’t let me read headlines going something like “Millennials fucked up the election by posting pictures of their ballots” because it will be fucking insufferable. And also Trump will probably win and we’ll all be fucked.

[pokemonprofessor]

Also, DO NOT WEAR ANY SHIRTS, HATS, PINS, BAGS, ETC. THAT SHOWCASE A CERTAIN CANDIDATE OR POLITICIAN WHEN YOU GO TO VOTE!

It’s called passive electioneering, and some states will bar you from entering a voting place if you are wearing anything pro-or-anti-a certain candidate. Show your support that day by voting instead of wearing your candidate proudly on clothes.

[bri-ecrit]

THIS IS IMPORTANT.

DO NOT TAKE/POST PICTURES OF YOUR BALLOT.

DON’T DO IT.

[boutella]

You just got Holtzmanned, baby!

[hotdatewithagoodbook]

The circus arrives without warning...

[supaslim]

WARNING ABOUT A REALLY NASTY NEW VIRUS.

Meet CryptoLocker. It’s your worst nightmare. A lot of antivirus software, including the big names, cannot yet detect or stop it. If your computer gets it, CryptoLocker takes all your files hostage by encrypting them and giving you a certain amount of time to send a certain amount of money to the man behind the virus.

The encryption is very tidy, and so far seems uncrackable (well, crackable, but it might take a couple centuries). If you tamper with the virus itself, it will pretty much self-destruct and take everything with it. And the way the money is transferred, the dick programmer behind it all for the moment is pretty much uncatchable.

YOU CANNOT GET RID OF THIS VIRUS WITHOUT COMPLETELY WIPING YOUR COMPUTER. YOUR ONLY CHANCE IS PREVENTION AND PREPARATION.

Back up your computer to something like an external hard-drive, or even an internal hard-drive that you just take out and stuff away somewhere for safe keeping. Make sure your antivirus is up to date, avoid skeevy sites, and don’t open random emails. DO NOT download email attachments unless you know exactly what it is, because that seems to be how this is primarily being transmitted.

You can learn more about it here.

[spacevixenmusic]

We’ve actually run into this at work. It’s extremely aggressive and a major fucking pain to get rid of. One of our guys got infected with it and even paid the company whatever fee they charge to decrypt the files, and due to “an error processing the first payment”, ended up double-charging him (no refunds, of course) and is virtually untrackable.

Literally fuck this guy with a cactus. Like, if you see him, offer to introduce him to your little cactus friend in a quite personal and intimate manner. This shit is FUCKING INEXCUSABLE.

Also, bulk up on your virus protection, limit your porn and illegal cartoon-watching and torrents to safe sites, DO NOT OPEN EMAIL ATTACHMENTS UNLESS YOU’RE EXPECTING THEM, and just be careful in general, cause this one is one of the nastiest viruses around.

I wouldn’t reblog a virus alert unless I was dead serious about how bad it is.

[enceladanoceans]

Snopes Confirms

[candycoateddoom]

I got an e-mail from my dad about this.

[itshazel-belle]

Mandatory reblog.

[solarisii]

So the information in this is a little outdated. CryptoLocker CAN BE DEFEATED without just erasing everything on your hard drives or paying the ransom. CryptoLocker encrypts your files with a encryption that is unique to your computer, which sucks cause it made it hard to break. But long story short: A Dutch security firm now has a data base of keys and offers a free service HERE. You send them a encrypted file and your email and they’ll will then email you a decryption key along with a download link to our recovery program that can be used together with the decryption key to repair all encrypted files on your computer.  More Info on CryptoLocker here. Other Ransomware & Fake Antivirus removal guides can be found on this blokes channel  Also take this as a good reminder to back up important files. 

[mrkenyon]

Reblogging this good news!

This post has been all over my dash the past few days, it’s good to see someone found a way to help!

[bellumblake]

hermione was the sister harry never had and she was there for him when he was being a fuckup (and he was there for her when she was HEARTBROKEN over RON TWICE)and to say that they should’ve ended up together just cheapens what i think is one of the best friendships in the series

[root-is-ma-kween]

Yeah and her name is Kate Mckinnon!

[hotdatewithagoodbook]

This movie was a festival beauty for us bi folks... But let’s be real… It’s all about Kate McKinnon…

[obstacles100]

Who you gonna call? HOLTZMANN!!!!!!!!!!

[hotdatewithagoodbook]

She's everything... Absolutely everything in the whole world...

[xgingerbookworm]

Hello lovely nerds! I’m here to celebrate a milestone (and i haven’t done a giveway in an AGE!), & xgingerbookworm is 4 years old & is almost at 8,000 followers! I’m super exited by this so I thought i’d do a cheeky giveaway! 

If you are the winner, you may select a book from the book depository (i’m super poor!) which will be paper back :) (I usually have a selection… but BUT theres so many good books around!)

Odds and Sodds and important information:

You must be following my blog xgingerbookworm

Please like and/or reblog to enter. You can do this as many times as you’d like, but please don’t piss off your followers!

No Giveaway blogs

Your ask box needs to be open so i can let you know if you win

The winner will have 48 hours to reply.

If you win you’ll need to give me your address to send the prizes. This information will be strictly confidential.

CLOSES ON THE 18TH AUGUST 2016

Thank you my gorgeous loves….

Grace xxx

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Currently Reading: Uprooted by Naomi Novik

[the-bookie-monster]

Fuck piscatella

Godammit this show

Why?!?!?! 😤😱😭

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^^^ THIS!

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The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe

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June TBR!

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Finished 'Cinder' last night, starting 'Scarlet' tonight!

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I'm almost done with 'Cinder' and I'm pretty confident in saying that I'll be liking the Lunar Chronicles...

[bey]

reblog if u are currently a mess