I read young adult books with some frequency, and I’ve discovered many of my favorite authors in that category well after I left the demographic. Tamora Pierce is one that I’ve been reading since I was, in fact, a young adult. I think the thing I love most about her books is how well she […]
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The White Tyger is the third book in the series that began with A Princess of Roumania. Miranda Popescu had been sent at a very young age into an alternate reality where the isle of England hadn’t sunk into the ocean, the American colonies aren’t a back water frontier, and Romania is a small, relatively
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It’s been crazy hot up here. Like, hole up in the house, and don’t go anywhere in daylight hot. One of the few bright sides to that is the really interesting weather the heat brings on. (And we’ve been lucky there – no crazy statewide damaging thunderstorms that knock out power for a week…)
My first canning of the summer season isn’t really seasonal, but had a definite purpose. In my quest for new and interesting sandwich ideas for dinner over the winter, I hit upon fig preserves as an idea for a sandwich spread. Do you know how expensive fig preserves are? And how much the BF ended
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Yes, I am a sucker for being complete. Despite the fact that the main character kind of irritates me, I tracked down the last book in the Claidi Journals, Wolf Wing. Claidi and Argul can finally get married, but just as they do this, they receive an unexpected summons from Argul’s grandmother, Ironel. It turns
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I officially give up on growing cilantro. It always bolts within about a week of me getting it to a size I can actually think about using. And yes, it’s kind of pretty, and the bees like it, but I’m not getting any use out of this plant. So I guess it’s
I like historical fiction. I’m fully willing to admit that much historical fiction takes a somewhat rosy view of the past, and there’s quite a bit out there that glosses over some of the more unpleasant (to modern eyes at least) aspects of cultures in the past. The Tiger in the Well pretty much embraces
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In an effort to find something Down East that we hadn’t done before, the BF stumbled upon the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, specifically the Petit Manan Point section in Steuben. It was definitely the best part of our weekend. (And I say that despite the fact that we were nearly eaten alive by
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Last weekend, we headed up to Ellsworth, and since we both had Friday off, we managed to wend our way up, stopping to head down the peninsula to Port Clyde, since neither of us had been there before. The Marshall Point Lighthouse was a delight – perfect picnic spot, and Owl’s Head is lovely, with
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Tamson House is in Ottawa – and takes up an entire city block, a ringed fortress around a central garden. It looks perfectly normal from the outside, but what most people don’t know is that it’s a nexus, a portal to the other worlds that touch our own. Its garden is an echo or the
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