The community garden bed is greening up. We’ve had flea beetle over there pretty bad. I’ve gone through way more kale than I should have, and the broccoli greens and broccoli are toast. It hasn’t touched the Swiss chard (had the first harvest yesterday), but any of the runner beans I put directly […]
Binti has been accepted to Oozma University, which will require her to leave Earth and her people –a people that do not normally travel out of their land. On the way, her ship is attacked by the Medusae, and Binti is the only one left alive. This is a novella (one of the bad things
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Pattern: Pamina by Caoua CoffeeYarn: Blue Moon Yarn Silky SockNeedles: Size 2 DPNs I’ve finished the Pamina socks. Liked this pattern way more than the first one I tried with this yarn. It’s really well plotted out – she’s actually counted out all the row counts (something I can do, but appreciate not having
I chose this site today because it features a bog, and had an orchid in the land trust’s website pictures. And since my regular local bog (Saco Heath) is closed for the foreseeable (Covid-based) future, I was hopeful I’d see some cool orchids. And I did. Where there was no way I could get close
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Kaylin is a Hawk, trying to keep the streets of the city of Elantra safe. After fleeing a terrible childhood in the fief of Nightshade, she’s drawn back there, when children are murdered. The twist is that they have been marked the same way that she was, when many other children died, and no one
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It took me a little while to get into this book, because it’s not a happy story (and I’m having a hard time dealing with not happy lately), but Jemisin’s never steered me wrong, so I kept at it, and I’m glad I did. There are three interweaving stories in a far future Earth, where
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This book is in two parts – Evelyn’s story, and Brendan’s story. (I have the Kindle edition. I’d love to see how this works in the actual book edition.) The two meet in college in the Cornish village of Clews, and their story is a twist on Arthurian legend. It’s really interesting reading reviews of
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