This is a cute little book – there are lots of short stories about various princesses (or pseudo princesses in some cases), grouped into categories like Warriors, Survivors, Partiers, etc. There are a fair number of non-Western women as well, which was nice. The only thing I’m not quite sure I totally liked was the
Princesses Behaving Badly – Linda Rodriguez McRobbie Read More »
A little background on this one: back when I was in middle school, my older brother got this book for Christmas (I’m guessing when it was new, and probably on display in the bookstore so it caught someone’s eye). It was still laying out later that day, and I read the first couple of chapters.
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The set up of this Heyer book is complicated – a new Earl with a step mother and bitter half brother, a cousin, the Earl’s best friend, a local neighbor girl who’s far too practical for her own good, and the beautiful local heiress. Can you guess who marries who? And have I mentioned there’s
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In the final book of the Mistborn trilogy, the world is more or less coming to an end – the ashfalls have increased so much they’re choking out the sun by day, and the mists at night have turned sinister, and are making people fall ill. But Vin and Elend have found that the Lord
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So after I finished the fish hat relatively early yesterday, I was then able to finish out chart three of the Evenstar Shawl. What I didn’t realize until I then read ahead for the next chart’s instructions is that this was the last chart in the main body of the shawl, and I’ve actually made
Project: Fish Hat [Dead or Alive?] by Thelma Egberts from the Winter 2008 KnittyNeedles: Size 8 DPNsYarn: Cascade 220 Heathers in Red and Green, Malabrigo Rios in Indicieta, Malabrigo Worsted in Taureg and Blue Moon Fibers Gaea in Corby The fish hat is done! This is a really fun little pattern, and great for
Five friends go to a university talk by a noted Celtic studies authority, and quickly discover that he is in fact a wizard, and has come to bring them to Fionavar – the first of all Worlds, where they all have an important part to play in the war against the Unraveler. This is a
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So I came outside on Friday morning to a bit of a surprise. One of the first summers we’d move here (so at least eight years ago), I planted a couple of lilies in the side garden, which then proceeded to get well and truly decimated by lily beetle, to the point where they barely
I’m taking a little break from the Evenstar shawl (which is going really well – I’m toward the end of the third chart), for a birthday request. This is the Fish Hat [Dead or Alive?] from the Winter 2008 Knitty. It’s great for using up scraps, so I did buy one yarn to tie what
So this year, our CSA is growing rhubarb. I’ve done strawberry rhubarb crisp, and a killer rhubarb coffee cake, so where do you go next? Jam! The above is a Vanilla Balsamic Rhubarb Jam, and for once, it actually made more than the recipe said, so I had a small jar’s worth to sample, and
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