The Baby Yoda sweater is done. I hadn’t planned on finishing it this weekend, but I have good reason to believe that the recipient will be/has already arrived early, so I figured a push to finish it up this weekend was in order. I’m happy with the yarn (Knit Pick’s Shine Worsted, in Reef) I […]
My cracktasic whirlwind tour of David Eddings’ longest story continues. The Mallorean picks up where the Belgariad left off, after Garion has defeated the dark god Torak, and all should be right with the world. Naturally, it’s not. Turns out, killing Torak was something that had to happen before the ultimate showdown between the Dark
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Read for the Young Adult and Once Upon a Time II Reading Challenges. This tale of the beast from “Beauty and the Beast” is an interesting twist on the fairy tale. In the author’s notes, she lists a popular poetry version of this tale by Charles Lamb in 1811 as the inspiration for the setting
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And now, due the miracle of a temporary warming spell, I present, Crocus! Now, I just have to remember that they’re pretty much the only thing that can survive out there for the moment…
I got my first earlier reviewer book from LibraryThing. I feel so special! I don’t normally count cookbooks as real reading material, because they’re generally more flip through and skim the recipe title type books, but at least the first half of Food 2.0 dealt more with the philosophy of why the author cooks the
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge I do enjoy a good book where I’m completely surprised when the mystery is resolved at the end of the story. The build up of this story was great. Margaret Lea, a book store employee who has published a couple of biographical essays, but is certainly not known for
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I can’t resist a fantasy/fairy tale/folklore reading challenge. Those subjects are such a large percentage of my TBR pile I’m happy any time I find a way to structure in reading more of them. I’m going to do the first quest, and read at least five books in the challenge subjects. I’ve come up with
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The baby Yoda sweater is coming along. I’ve got the back and sides done, and sleeve #1 is cast on. It’s been an interesting experience. This is definitely the barest bones pattern I’ve worked with so far, so it’s been nice to have to figure out what decrease I need to do to achieve the
Sure, it’s a bastardization of a Rachael Ray recipe (my love of her oeuvre shames me, for no particularly good reason), but it’s Mexican macaroni and cheese! There’s chicken, and cilantro-y goodness! A combination of two of my comfort food standbys. I’ve been on a nearly two week long stretch of cooking apathy (mostly induced
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