We had a friend visiting us from England this past week, and decided that since we had a few days off, we’d bring her up to Acadia National Park and show her the sights. Day 1 of our trip ended up being very fogged in on the island, but it had a definite quiet beauty […]
Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Arthur Penhaligon is a normal boy who was never meant to be a hero. In fact, he should have died, except his life was saved by the sudden arrival a key that’s shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur discovers that this key belongs to Mister
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. There’s a surprising amount of variety in this slim book of short stories – all of which are retellings of fairy tales, with a modern, adult twist. The title story is a retelling of the story of Bluebeard, this time set on the coast of Brittany, as a
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Jill Kismet is a Hunter, trained to keep regular humans safe from Hellbreed. It’s not an easy job. Her teacher was recently killed, and she’s made a deal with one of the local hellbreed leaders that gives her great power, but may be her undoing. In the midst
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Pattern: February Lady by Pamela WynneYarn: Knightsbridge by The Fibre CompanyNeedles: Size 9 (and 11 for bind offs) Not only have I finally finished a sweater in a season where I can wear it, but it’s the February Lady sweater, so I drank the koolaid by making it. That being said, I totally understand the
The Privilege of the Sword is the story of Lady Katherine Samantha Campion Talbert, who is shipped off to live with her uncle, the mad Duke of Tremontaine. He wants to make Katherine into a swordsman. He’ll also pay off all her family’s debts in the process, so Katherine dutifully goes to the city, and
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I went to the Beach today. (As point of reference, my beach with a capitol B is Crescent Beach in Cape Elizabeth, which is, and always will be the epitome of beachiness to me.) This is normally not a statement of much import, but the last time I was at the Beach was a blustery
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I thought I finished the Patricia A. McKillip Challenge yesterday with the completion of a fourth book, but after rereading the challenge rules, I realized I actually finished it back in August, with book three. However, in hindsight, I’m almost positive I read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld before, so book four makes up for
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Read for the RIP IV and Patricia A. McKillip Challenges. “She opened her drawing pad and sat there, drawing the stairs she remembered from her dream. They began in the tide, each ebbing wave revealing another step, and then another. As she drew, the mists overhead blew inland and sunlight streaked the water. She made
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I’ve finished the first of my year long reading challenges! I definitely preferred the TBR Lite format to the full TBR treatment I did last year. You wouldn’t think reading 12 books I’d been meaning to read anyway would be stressful, but setting a list at the beginning of the year turned out to be
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