This books starts with an older couple living an old England shrouded in mist and forgetting. They’d like to venture to see their son, but they can barely remember why he left, and if they should go. They’re finally able to push through the mists enough to set out on their journey, and they encounter […]
The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro Read More »
The snow pack is rapidly decreasing. We were hoping for a walk at Two Lights yesterday – I would put money on the main path there being clear, but their front entrance is blocked. It looks like they’re redoing the entrance road (the entry kiosk is completely gone at the moment). Better now than later,
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The Trisha sweater is going well. Which means I’m past the interesting bits in the yoke, and have moved into the endless stockinette portion of the body. What is cool about this is that it’s technically reverse stockinette, but the designer used short rows to turn things around so you’re knitting it as regular stockinette.
This collection does have some overlap with her other short story collections (my review of another is here – I’ve read another beyond this), but there is different work in here, so it’s worth getting. I really like the author’s voice – these are fairy tales retellings, or variations, or stories set in a fairy
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They have emerged from the snowbank! (The weather decided to markedly warm up last week. We got rain. The snow pack has dramatically shrunk.) Granted, they’re now encased in solid ice right under the covers, which isn’t great. It should be above freezing today, so I’m going to check them later to see if any
Remember those seeds I winter sowed and left out on the back deck before it started snowing? I have no idea how they’re doing – they’re buried under the above. I have to assume nothing has sprouted, because it’s been cold. Like, we had a frozen pipe (that fortunately didn’t burst) one morning cold. We
This story is about Jennifer Talldeer, a private investigator in Oklahoma, who also happens to be an Osage shaman. Her specialty is finding Native American artifacts and returning them to their original owners. In this story, she’s hired by an insurance company after a construction project goes disastrously wrong, and the developer tries to frame
Sacred Ground – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
First two yarns of 2025 are used up – these hexipuffs are the rest of the The Alpaca Yarn Co. Paca-Peds and Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat yarns I just made hats with. It was nice to get some yarn struck out of my list – I sat on all my ends last
This series is a supposed look into Jane Austen’s diaries, theoretically finding inspirations for various characters and locations in her books. This book finds Jane, her mother and her sister in the Peak District, near Chatsworth House. If you’ve seen the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, Chatsworth was used as Pemberley, and it is considered to
Jane and the Stillroom Maid – Stephanie Barron Read More »
Pattern: Allerton Hat by Wooly Wormhead Yarn: The Alpaca Yarn Co. Paca-Peds in the Stardust colorway Needles: Size 1.5 DPNs This is a cute pattern – and has enough going on to keep it interesting, even though it’s fundamentally a garter stitch tube. And can I say how gratifying it was to do grafting in
