I don’t normally write up my rereads (my original review is here), but when I picked this book up on my half off spree at Borders, I’d recently enough read Swordspoint (which happens twenty years before this story) that I wanted to be able to read it again with Alec and Richard’s story fresh in […]
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Read for the Foodie’s Reading Challenge. Melissa Clark’s “A Good Appetite” column is one of the things I really like reading in the New York Times, though I’ll fully admit I’ve been reading much less of it since they put up the paywall for their website. (2024 note: I now subscribe, and the Cooking section features
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Anyone who watched the show Firefly, the rather tragically cut short space western created by Joss Whedon, is familiar with the character of Shepherd Book. Book very clearly had a back story that involved somehow being deeply involved with the Republic, which was naturally never explored when the show wasn’t allowed past a first season.
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It’s practically fall again, so it’s time for the RIP VI Reading Challenge. This year, I’m going to do Peril the First, which is to read at least four books in the challenge categories: mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, Gothic, horror, or supernatural. Per my usual habit of the past couple years, I’ll be seeing
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With my renewed interest in sewing due to the new sewing machine, I dragged out the much interrupted celestial fabric quilt I’ve been working on for the better part of a decade (no, really. It’s a bit shaming, actually.) When I last left the quilt, I had woefully underestimated the amount of fabric I’d need
BF called me at work yesterday and mentioned that dinner was taken care of. I got home, and we hopped in the car. We headed toward Gorham, at which point I became very confused, as we don’t jointly know anyone that lives out in that direction. It took me a few more miles before I
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This week’s haul was: sweet peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, cauliflower, garlic, and potatoes. We also headed to the Farmer’s Market this morning to round out the ingredients for gazpacho, which which we’re bringing to a friend’s house tonight. Here’s the pile of goodies that went into that: It’s funny, last year, we made gazpacho once, and
I happened to have taken Monday off, and since my hurricane clean up consisted of bringing my potted plants back out from the garage, I had a nice free day. (A note on Irene: we were extremely lucky here in Portland – I got off with a filthy car. BF is originally from Bennington, VT,
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I spent the morning on Sunday (aka Hurricane Irene day) finishing up my Emmeline Apron. It’s from quilting cotton I bought at Joann Fabric. (It’s reversible, which is why there are two pictures.) It’s a nice, easy pattern – extremely easy to understand, and probably doable in a day if you’re not like me and
The Duke of Avon has a bit of a reputation in both France and his native England – he’s known as “Satanas”, and absolutely no one thinks well of him. Late one night, he comes across a red-headed street urchin named Leon, who is fleeing a beating at his brother’s hand. Seemingly on a whim,
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