This the final book of the Beka Cooper books, and it’s a doozy. She and her partner are summoned with some haste to the Summer Palace, where they find that half of the servants and guards there have been slaughtered, and the young prince has been kidnapped. Beka promises the frantic queen that she will […]
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Here’s the 2018 crop. Didn’t quite get to 100, but I was close. That was due to quite a few rereads this year. We’ll see if that keeps up for next year or not – it’ll depend on how much I need comfort reading.
This is a great conclusion to the The Herald Spy trilogy – Mags and Amily definitely come into their own as the King’s Spy and the King’s Own. There’s a nasty bully in Haven – he or she is targeting the women of Haven that have dared to set themselves up in positions better than
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Here’s the 2018 crop. Not too shabby – more than last year. (And this does not include the progress I’ve made on three separate scrappy blankets.) I’ve already got a bunch of stash busting plans, so hopefully I can continue in this vein for 2019.
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I’ve finished the Willowfall Cowl, though I’m not sure when I’ll get to block it, so no final post for that yet. In trying to get rid of more ends, I looked at my sport and DK weight yarn to see if there were any I could add to the scrappy worsted and aran weight
This is more of a novella – starting with a young widow purchasing a new house to get away from the memories of her dead husband. The house has been on the market for a while, because it’s supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young girl. Naturally, Clara sees the ghost. In trying to
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A story in which the daughters of the mad scientists of the Victorian age (Jekyll, Rappaccini, Moreau and Frankenstein) team up with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the murders of young women in London. I liked this book. It took a bit to get going, but once it was going, it was good.
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I picked this one up for free because it was labeled a regency romance, and the plot seemed promising – young man is trying to save his family’s fortune, and encounters a young woman tangled up in the mess that may be able to help him. It’s not a bad book, but I can’t say
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This is a book about weeds, but if you’ve studied plants at all, you know that weeds are far more than just those plants that invade our gardens. If they’re not natives, there’s probably a reason they’re there, and those stories can be quite interesting. The author is English, so this is very much about
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This is a book of short stories, several of which are twists on fairy tales. I definitely liked some better than others, but this is Patricia A. McKillip, so they’re all well written. “The Harrowing the Dragon” is an interesting tale of a young man who wants to save the place where he grew up,
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