Stormy Sea
My company outing was last week at Fort Williams. Naturally, it was the one rainy day in the otherwise gorgeous stretch of weather we’ve been having. But, I am from New England, so I even find stormy weather beautiful.
Zealot – Reza Aslan
I really enjoyed this book – it’s a look at Jesus of Nazareth the man, not Jesus the Son of God. The author gives a great deal of background of what was going on with the Jews being part of the Roman Empire at the time Jesus lived, which informs a great deal of why
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Evenstar Shawl by Susan PandorfYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorwayNeedles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I finally got around to blocking the Evenstar Shawl. That was fairly exciting – even my bed wasn’t quite big enough to do it completely flat. Fortunately though, because I stocked up on blocking pins, I at
Further Adventures in Domesticity
I’ve had quite the preserving week. The first thing, started during the week because I saw bags of key limes for $1.79 a pop and had to do something with them, is the above key lime pickle. It’s basically a preserved lemon, but with Indian spices. It’s percolating away, and should be ready when I
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Queen of This Realm – Jean Plaidy
It’s a measure of how fascinating a character Queen Elizabeth I was that I managed to finish this book. Strike 1: When I bought it (several aeons ago, admittedly), I thought it was a scholarly book. When I picked it up to read it, and found that it was a fictionalized memoir, I was somewhat
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Knitting Notes
And here is my Evenstar Shawl, in all its unblocked glory, finished just this morning. I have laid in a stash of extra blocking pins in anticipation of blocking this – there are tons of little scallops on the edging, and I wanted to make sure I could block those properly. Which, speaking of the
Burning Brightly – Mercedes Lackey
Lavan Firestorm is a Herald mentioned in passing in the main Valdemar books, having been the last person before the present day of that world to have the Firestarting gift. This book is the story of how he discovered his gift, and became a Herald. It’s not a pleasant story, because Lavan was severely bullied,
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Songbook – Nick Hornby
This is a book of essays about songs that have particularly interested Hornby at various points of his life. The essays may not concern the song directly, but are sometimes about what that song may remind him of, or of feelings or events that that song is forever linked to in his mind. It’s an
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Karen Cushman
Karen Cushman writes really excellent young adult historical fiction, where she really gets inside the head of a young person from some past historical period, and does it in such a way that they don’t feel too modern, but still firmly belong in their own time period. Up until now, what I’d read of hers
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation
The last week of July was my vacation with the BF, and since he had a family reunion, we headed over to Vermont and the adjacent area of New York. (My personal vacation is coming up in September, and it’s completely awesome – as I’ll be able to post about in October.) A lot of
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