One thing that really bugs me about ebooks is not knowing how large the book actually is. This book felt like it kept going on forever, which is pretty impressive, because most of it was a single battle. Hugh and his friends have returned home, just in time for their former mentor Alustin’s deadline for […]
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This is what two bins of seaweed look like on the back bed. I should probably go for some compost as well, but I suspect that (and some new straw) will end up waiting for spring. At least this has been applied so it can start percolating into the ground. The aforementioned two bins. These
Pattern: Summer Fjord by Trin-Annelie Yarn: Knit Picks Lindy Chain in the Harbor, Mist and Silver colorways Needles: Size 3, 4 and 5 circs Cursed sweater #2 is done. And I’ll never wear it. I think my yarn choice wasn’t good. Despite ripping it back to do the medium size, it’s still too big. I
Mererid is on the run – she’s a water diviner, taken by one of the local princes when she was small for her magic. Why she’s on the run is one of the things that’ll be unraveled as the story goes along. This is a heist story, and an enjoyable one – several other characters
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The first book in this duology ends in a major cliffhanger, where it appears that Elspeth is dead – taken over by the Nightmare. In this story, we quickly find out that she is not gone, and we also learn far more about the Nightmare, who is actually the Shepherd King. Rayvn Yew and his
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Miyara may have left the royal family behind, but they’re not done with her. All of her royal sisters show up in town, and it’ll be up to all of them to work together to save the world. This was a very satisfying end to the trilogy. I realized one of the things I really
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I’ve very behind with posting – weekends have been full of the kind of life stuff I don’t tend to document here. But the garden has marched on. We had a killing frost overnight on the 17th – the results are above. We’d actually had a lighter frost a few days before that that everything
Saturday was a glorious day, other than the insane wind. (I was bracing myself to take this picture.) The sky was perfectly blue, and there was lovely foliage along the road. Just a great fall day.
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Checked off a bucket list item this week. It’s been a very active solar flare year, and there was a flare on Thursday that managed to cut through the light pollution so that we could actually see the aurora from our back deck. (These shots both use the nighttime feature on my pixel’s camera, but
If I’m being brutally honest – this book is a filler story. But it’s a filler story between some fairly important action in the last book (in which one mentor of the main characters betrays the school they attend, and therefore causes the death/probable death of two other mentors), and the last book in the
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