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After a six-month break to let the internet cool itself down, our indie Stuff Your eReader event is BACK!!!! As promised, I’m telling you about this at midnight Pacific time, aka, the very first second that all of these books are free, because right now is the start of the Amazon.com day, and some of these books are free TODAY ONLY (ie, for the next 24 hours, or #stuffyourkindleday as it is sometimes known!

So here we go again. “Her Dark Love” is free. I am also giving a notable mention to “Life After Death by TR Sharrow… the full list is at romancebookworms.com However I do recommend using the categories to find what you are wanting! I appreciate this list does not have book covers displayed. I also find long lists daunting, so some good tips are to use Control and F to find what you are after.

Hello, and welcome to the CulinaryWoman Newsletter! I’m happy to see so many new subscribers and to thank everyone who’s been with us. This is the free weekly newsletter. CulinaryWoman looks at topics in the ever-changing food world, and I also share the stories that I’ve written for news outlets, and podcasts. Before we start, I want to send best wishes to Catherine, Princess of Wales in her cancer battle. I have great affection for her as a fellow airline child, and as a graceful human being, daughter, wife, sister and mother.

The United Kingdom’s greatest musical export of the 20th century was a genre called shoegaze. The first wave of shoegaze didn’t last long–maybe five years–but what a fertile and influential time it was. I’ve been a fan of shoegaze ever since I first heard Slowdive’s “Alison” in 2005. It’s just so good. That sound! It scratched an itch I didn’t know I had. It’s exactly what I want to hear basically all the time.

Blink-182 are often credited with leading the pop-punk resurgence of the early 2000s. For a few short years, pop-punk was a legitimate force on Top 40 radio, MTV, and in malls across America. Not only did skateboarders and inline skaters listen to it, but so did jocks, theater kids, gamers, and old normal people. For a moment, our country was united around power chords and lyrics about adolescent angst. It was a beautiful time.

From the time I was 10, I’ve been obsessed with what it means to grow older. I’m curious about what it means to others, of all ages, and so I invite them to take “The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.”Here, style icon, TV host, author, and menopause innovator Stacy London responds. -Sari BottonP.S. A reminder that in my book, everyone who is alive and aging is considered an Oldster, and that every contributor to this magazine is the oldest they have ever been, which is interesting new territory for them—and interesting to me, the 58-year-old who publishes this.

I hadn’t planned on snapping street fashion on my trip to Japan, but from the minute I stepped onto the streets of Osaka, it captured my attention. We talk a lot about personal style on here — discovering it, expressing it, refining it — and in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, the outfits themselves were indeed fascinating. At the same time, observing the street style with fresh eyes at an individual level had me thinking about the culture and society in which these people live.

If you get the reference in the hed and dek, did you have a Tamagotchi? Or a Baby G? Were you a Leon fan or did you love Aaron’s moves more? (Sorry, this was for a very specific audience, but it’s the first thing I think of when I think of the word “sugar” – Cantopop is full of earworms like these. I’ll stop now. There is no other marmalade-related content in this newsletter.

I’ve been holding back sharing a thought that I think should not be as controversial as it is: People can be “a little bit autistic.” This doesn’t mean that I think it’s okay for people to say invalidating phrases like “everyone is a little bit autistic” in response to a person disclosing their autism. Yet, there is some truth to the idea that people can be a little bit autistic.