Read for the 2010 Graphic Novels Challenge This is an aptly titled volume, where so much of the action has to do with Snow and Bigby, and their children. I’ll admit to enjoying having the story line that kept them apart wrapped up, and it’s fun to see the children with names and personalities. It’ll […]
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It’s been an absolutely lovely weekend. Temps are in the 50s (or more in the south), and it’s sunny, without a lot of wind. We wandered our way south yesterday, and had the first Flo’s hot dogs of the season before ending up in Hampton Beach, NH. Our initial motivation was a bit of looky-lou-itis
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I decided to throw all caution to the wind, and cast on the Sockdown March Mystery sock the day before yesterday. The theme of the month is lace, and it’s designed by Kristi Geraci. I’m using Tess’ Designer Yarns Peruvian Sock yarn in a lovely blue and green variegated colorway. It’s probably a good thing
I’ve cast on the Lily of the Valley socks by Susan Lawrence, for the first of potentially two pair I’m doing for the March Sockdown challenge. I’m using Knitpicks Essential sock yarn in the Dusk colorway. Yes, I know it’s Stroll sock yarn now, but this yarn was part of my very first Knitpicks purchase,
Blood Bank is technically the last book of the Blood Ties series by Tanya Huff, and the introduction begins with this rather depressing statement: “Because the Blood books were as much about the relationship between the three protagonists as they were about the metaphysical or the mystery, and because in Blood Debt I had wrapped
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My blog entries for February are rather bare. It’s an unfortunate side effect of this month. It’s too cold to go out much, so I don’t have many pictures to post, and I’ve been on a bit of a book slump this month as well. I’ve done next to no knitting updates because I’ve been
Read for the Historical Fiction and TBR Lite 2010 Reading Challenges. Carter Beats the Devil is set in the early 1920s, in the golden age of magic, when magicians such as Houdini ruled the stage. The story is a novelization of the life of Charles Carter, an actual magician from this period, but appears to
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I went to the beach on Sunday. Sure, I was wearing a down parka, hat and thick socks, but it was sunny! And it was largely ice free. Ah, winter in Maine…
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The Ivory and the Horn is a collection of stories set in Newford, de Lint’s fictional Every City where many of his urban fantasy novels are based. The beauty of Newford is that there are so many shorter stories set there, and it’s easy to ease yourself into this world, and meet the many recurring
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Star Crossed Slouchy Beret by Natalie LarsonYarn: Canopy Worsted in the Yerba Mate colorwayNeedles: 10 and 11 circs I finally recovered from my epic knitting fail and unraveled by original, far too small, nearly completed effort last week, and started again using the correct sized needles. The hat now fits, though now that I’ve made