In the interests of finding new and different things to do on a Saturday where we have nowhere special to be, the BF came up with the idea of making a list of state parks, and trying to visit as many as possible this summer. So we started this Saturday, at pretty much the southernmost […]
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Work is progressing on my two current knitting projects. (I recently bought a laptop, so I have to confess to spending some of what is normally knitting time in front of the tv doing file clean up on the laptop instead.) I don’t remember if I mentioned before, but I started on the Barrow socks
Read for the 2010 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. I’ve been trying to get my hands on The Dying Earth for years now (I have all the other books written in this particular world, but for some reason, the first was the hardest to locate). It’s one of those seminal earlier works of science fiction (or
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Read for the 2010 YA and the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenges. Every person that’s read Graceling, every blog that I follow that’s reviewed it, has had nothing but the best things to say about Graceling, so I started this book with high expectations. I’m very happy to say it didn’t disappoint. In
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Yesterday’s weekend wander was to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden in Boothbay. It was the perfect day for it – a little on the cool side with clouds approaching but staying away until we left. We also got there early enough that the gardens weren’t clogged with people. I was excited to find more rhodys
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Trillium from Vermont, strawberries from my neighborhood, all others from the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden.
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I started The Mulberry Empire for the Complete Booker Reading challenge. It seemed like a promising story: the events surrounding the failed British invasion of Afghanistan in the early 19th century. I’ve abandoned the book a quarter of the way into it (first abandoned book since 2007). I just couldn’t get into the story. There
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Read for the YA 2010 Reading Challenge. Life at Obernewtyn has gained a bit of normalcy. Since they’re so far from the Council’s lands to the south, the Misfits are protected by their remoteness, and they believe they have time to gather their forces before the Council comes to investigate them. They’ve divided themselves into
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Miranda is a pretty typical teenager living with her adoptive parents in a small college town in western Massachusetts. She was born in Romania, but has little memory of life there before Rachel and Stanley saw her and took her away. What she doesn’t know
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