What a sweet book. It’s about Ruth, who seems to have a pretty perfect life, until her husband is laid off, her 16-year old daughter loses the ability to relate to her, and her father breaks both his arms and has to move in, when her mother (note that Ruth’s parents have been long divorced) […]
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I don’t know what it is, but I’m in a massive nesting mood today, which is being mostly thwarted by the fact that the worst off sections of the house are also the unheated sections of the house. But, the various parts of my craft accumulation are in portable containers, so I was at least
Have I mentioned I can be an obsessive completist? I read The Summer Country last year, and I thought it was mainly ok. So, on the way to Thanksgiving at my father’s, I stopped at the Big Chicken Barn, and managed to find The Winter Oak. Hey, it was used, and cheapish, and I do
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So, I’m a little, ok, massively late with this, but I really wanted to answer the 2/14 Booking Through Thursday question. Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could
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So it’s February. And it’s snowed. Again. And there isn’t enough tea in this world to keep my hands and insides warm. So, in honor of Project Spectrum, I took a leisurely stroll through last summer’s flower pictures and put together a Fire themed collage. Can Spring get here just a little quicker so I
I’m very nearly done with the Lil’ Devil Baby Hat. Just need to weave in the current ends, and then make the horns. I confess to a certain level of trepidation for the horns, as it involves picking up stitches in a triangular shape, supposedly above the ear flaps, but doing this in a hat
I had a rather lovely, fairly productive weekend. Saturday was my mother’s birthday, and we did a little girl’s afternoon out to the Skillin’s annual open house at their Falmouth greenhouse. Mom found a really cool Greenman to replace the eagle decoration that came with her garage, and I bought a new oxalis to replace
Read for the Graphic Novels Challenge This graphic novel was written in the 80s, and was set in a dystopian near future in the 90s, where there’d been a terrible war, and a fascist government has taken over Great Britain. The only person standing against this government is a shadowy figure codenamed V, who turns
I actually finished my Fetching mitts on Sunday. I think the lovely warmth I was getting from one mitt spurred me on, because they were done in near record time. They’re keeping my hands warm in my chilly house as I type this. No picture, since I haven’t had the time to monkey with posing
Read for the Young Adult Reading Challenge. This book was a double young adult selection, both by intended audience and by the fact that the author was thirteen when she completed it. Considering the age the author, this is quite a decent book. The plot is extremely quick; it centers around the vampire Risika and
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