I think what I most liked about this book was that Gaiman outlined where each of the stories or poems came from in the introduction. That’s not something authors do often, though he mentioned he thought this was his least thematic short story collection, so perhaps that was his way of pulling things […]
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We took a bit of a drive yesterday with the BF’s parents. Had lunch at our favorite restaurant (Krista’s in Cornish), stopped at the quilt shop next door (mostly for the MIL, but I bought a few fat quarters), stopped at our favorite apple orchard (Apple Acres farm in Hiram) for honey crisps and
I am so conflicted about this book. To the point of where if I had not already read the two books that came before it, I don’t think I would have finished it. And I’m really not sure if I’m going to pass it on to the two people that I had loaned
The Fall of the Kings – Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman Read More »
So I pulled the tomatoes out last Saturday. One of them was mostly dead, and there was a frost coming. I’d like to take note of the lush shiso and nasturtiums above. They’re gone now. That frost was definitely a game changer.
First point – this garden is in San Diego County, not San Diego itself. Little bit up the coast actually. In case you were planning a quick jaunt across town from your hotel room… Second, this is where our membership at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden really pays off. We get
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The San Diego Zoo really is amazing. I’d always known it was one of the best zoos in the country, and it lived up to the hype. (Really, the only thing I was a little meh about was the gondolas – the Sky Train, or something like that, for a proper name
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