{"id":35424,"date":"2019-11-22T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=35424"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:27:12","slug":"sweet-baby-yoda-do-i-have-some-news-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2019\/11\/22\/sweet-baby-yoda-do-i-have-some-news-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Baby Yoda, Do I Have Some News For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I would do anything for Baby Yoda. I&#8217;d kill for him. I&#8217;d die for him. I demand MERCH of him is really what I&#8217;m saying. ANYWAY hey hi hello, it&#8217;s me, your host, Chnark Moondog, here to drop THE NEWS upon you like pennies flung from the viewing platform of a very tall skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>First and biggest bit of news: hey, whoa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/50-notable-works-of-fiction-in-2019\/2019\/11\/19\/2fed50da-0256-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wanderers landed on Washington Post&#8217;s 50 Notable Books from 2019<\/a> list, and I have no idea how it got there on a list filled with such literary luminaries. I assume it&#8217;s a mistake and will be corrected shortly but in the meantime I&#8217;m going to pretend it deserves to be there.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Kirkus and Pub Weekly&#8217;s best books of 2019 lists, Wanderers also hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory=best-horror-2019-best-book&amp;fbclid=IwAR1R-vQMzzRXmYThPLSdqtZ25Y3UkQWVWC9DYEFOMIU4BRlaVheF-wxWZJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library Journal&#8217;s best horror of the year<\/a>, alongside some notably fantastic books from Gabino Iglesias, T. Kingfisher (aka Ursula Vernon), Paul Tremblay, and John Hornor Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a <a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2019\/11\/locus-bestsellers-november-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locus Bestseller for the month of November<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lin_Manuel\/status\/1197508575213568001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankie has found a very good use for the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanderers<\/strong> is one of those books that keeps on going, and I have to thank you all for spreading the word about it &#8212; it means a lot and I&#8217;m so glad the book has connected with people so well. (The book did\u00a0<em>not<\/em> make the final round of Goodreads Choice, which I assume is a conspiracy and an oversight, which is to say, it&#8217;s not there because there are simply so many damn good books this year.)<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>non<\/em>-bookish news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/chuck-wendig-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mary Sue talked to me about *checks notes* apples, and only apples<\/a>. Hear me opine about the Greatest Fruit ever. And also you can now gaze back on the entire #heirloomapplereview2019 thread from Twitter, which is now (mostly) done. I&#8217;ll still do a few more, and I&#8217;ll definitely talk about the Cosmic Crisp when it comes out, since apparently that&#8217;s some kind of Future Moon Apple or some shit. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/status\/1197667673339056128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to last tweet in the thread here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And now, some photos.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49101257357_dd4e6f9509_3k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49100551473_11765bbd02_3k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49101257062_6e6097c524_3k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49059171488_57178cce5c_3k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48974416426_603eb2a4cc_3k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I would do anything for Baby Yoda. I&#8217;d kill for him. I&#8217;d die for him. I demand MERCH of him is really what I&#8217;m saying. ANYWAY hey hi hello, it&#8217;s me, your host, Chnark Moondog, here to drop THE NEWS upon you like pennies flung from the viewing platform of a very tall skyscraper. 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