The main thing I’m taking away from this trio of books (see here for the other) is that Edward Gorey thought a lot about the alphabet. There are so many variations of alphabet lists in these books. He’s also morbid. Which I already knew, but got extra confirmation reading these. I […]
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This is the fourth of the Mercy Thompson books, and definitely has an air of a between stories story, though far better done than what I’ve been reading in the later Sookie Stackhouse books. There were some rather serious events in the last book that Mercy is dealing with, including having killed one of the
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This appears to be in the year I’ll constantly find myself at Two Lights – this Friday, it was for my work summer outing.
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Our second Historic New England stop was Otis House, which sits right at the foot of Beacon Hill, in Boston. What I didn’t know about Beacon Hill was that it was once one of three mountains in this part of Boston. The other two were taken apart for fill, and Beacon Hill itself had about
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It being so hot, we ended the day in the air conditioning, and checked out the Peabody Essex Museum, which has a very eclectic collection ranging from local maritime art to the art of the Far East. (The roots of the museum are the East India Marine Company, founded by local ship captains.) It’s
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We joined Historic New England last year (our gateway being Hamilton House). We’ve worked our way through several Maine and New Hampshire properties, and decided to take advantage of a friend’s cookout in the Boston area to add a few Massachusetts properties to the list. The first was Beauport, which ended up being
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This book is a prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I only picked it up because I didn’t have to pay for anything. I’ll admit to having no expectations, but it was actually not too bad. It’s a couple years before the action of Pride and Prejudice, and the Bennett girls have
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I haven’t done any canning in ages – and still haven’t. But my mother got two quart sized take out containers of sour cherries right before she was going to leave the state, so she left them with me. I ended using David Lebovitz’s No Recipe Cherry Jam because I didn’t have enough fruit to
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