I finally figured out what was bugging me about the garden, last night. Despite the fact that it’s a week after Memorial Day, and I always do my planting on Memorial Day (but skipped this year because we went to VT, and it was so freaking cold!), the iris are still not blooming. But, they’re […]
Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. I really can’t say enough about these books (the Sevenwaters Trilogy), which till the story of a family in Ireland trying to keep to the old ways as the Druids are dying out, and the English and Norse are starting to invade. This third book
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. This is actually an omnibus containing three books: The Green Knight, The King’s Damosel and King Arthur’s Daughter. They retell the Arthurian legends from the points of view of the women in the stories: the first is Merlin’s granddaughter Vivian (granddaughter of Morgan and Morgause’s
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Well, here’s what’s survived in the back yard. I officially gave up on the heucheras today, as well as the lavender and lemon thyme from the side yard. It’s definitely been a weird Spring, seeing what is coming back. The climbing rose survived, but most of the top is dead. That’s probably ultimately a good
Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Eff is a twin, and her younger brother is the seventh son of a seventh son, making him a natural born magician with strong powers. Problem is, because of the number of sisters they have, that makes her the thirteenth child, and even some of
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Jena is the second of five sisters. They live with their merchant father in the mountains of Transylvania, and they have a secret. On the night of the full moon, as long as they are together, they can open a portal to the Fairy Realm,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Well here’s an interesting combination – an Arthurian post apocalyptic tale. And it’s from the 80s, so it predates the current post-apocalyptic YA trend. The story is set in a boarding school in what used to be called Wales. It’s about 500 years past a
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This is definitely one of the best years for daffodils we’ve had in a while. In other news, I managed to do a bit more gardening today. First were the back yard pots. The pots on the right are the hostas. They’re starting to bud, and I actually transplanted a couple of the larger ones
Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. Prudence and Robin have lived all their lives with their father as masqueraders – adventurers on the continent. When they get mixed up in the Jacobite rebellion, and things go badly, their father hatches a plan to allow them to escape. Thus, Peter (Prue) and Kate (Robin) are
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A LibraryThing EarlyReviewers book. Billie has landed her ideal job – assistant to the editor of Delicious! magazine. In no time flat, she’s installed in New York, meeting the absolutely fascinating cast of characters that work at the magazine as well as some of the interesting food sites in the city. But as quickly as
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