Weekly Wildflowers – Scarborough Marsh, Scarborough, ME
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Changing the World – ed. Mercedes Lackey
This is another Valdemar anthology opened up to other authors, and it’s another solid offering. Per usual, my favorite story is the Mercedes Lackey story, which in this case, is about the girl left behind when her sweetheart is Chosen to be a Herald. It’s a rather unexpected story, which I think is why I
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Garden Notes
So the weather turned on a dime about a week ago. It got cool. And cloudy. Not a whole lot of actual rain, still. But the cool is weird. I feel like I usually transition to shorts vs. pants every other day for while, but I had a sudden day where pants were necessary, and
Shadows – Robin McKinley
The backdrop of this book is an alternate world where magic is real, but the government of North America figured out where the magic genes are and chopped them out of everyone a couple of generations ago. But there is still magic in the rest of the world. Maggie’s a senior in high school, and
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Knitting Notes
The Vivid blanket progresses. I’d gotten to my original goal – four squares for each of the six colors – on Friday night. In laying them out today, I’m going to try and go for one more square in each color (which I’m fairly sure I have enough for, but I’ll know as soon as
Musings on Books
I was reading an article about e-books recently, and it got me thinking about how e-books were impacting my own reading/book collecting tendencies. And I do think they are, but probably not in the way a lot of people would think about it. Travel: I am a firm believer that it’s not a vacation if
Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch – Nigel Slater
After plowing through Slater’s Ripe, I had to go back and get the book he wrote before that, which dealt with vegetables, instead of fruit. And I again found this to be one of the rare cookbooks I can read from cover to cover. However, it’s a little less useful to me than Ripe was,
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Gifts – Ursula K. LeGuin
Orrec lives in the Uplands, a poor region of farms that hides a people with extraordinary gifts. Each family’s gift is different. Orrec’s family’s gift if Unmaking, and his gift is untamed. He is forced to blindfold his eyes so he doesn’t destroy the people he loves. That’s really an aside to this book. The
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A Distant Mirror – Barbara W. Tuchman
This is a serious, scholarly book about the 14th century, but written in such an approachable manner that anyone interested in this time period should be able to read it. To illustrate the time period, the author settles on one man to trace how his life was impacted by all the changes of this century.
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