This book continues the Black Jewels series, which had been pretty much wrapped up, so I was interested to see where the author would go from there. I really liked the parts of the book with Lucivar’s family among the Eyriens. He was given a lot of power when Janelle Angelline passed on, and seeing […]
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Antsy’s story began in Lost in the Moment and Found, and this book is a lovely conclusion for her. The last book ended with Antsy leaving the Shop Where all Lost Things Go, angry at the price that children weren’t being warned they’d need to pay if they opened doors from the shop. In the
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Not my best year – I went through several periods where I’d have three books going because I couldn’t properly get into any of them. Can’t really put a finger on why – I read all of them to completion, and did enjoy them. We’ll just have to see if this translates to next year.
One thing I enjoy about the Penric and Des books is that the author isn’t afraid to go out of order in time, so this book goes back to Penric’s days with the Princess-Archdivine in Martensbridge. He’s so young! (It is actually noticeable in certain ways that he interacts with Desdemona.) This is a great
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There’s been a development with the Vivid blanket. The yarn I made the original one in is no longer available, so I ended up going with Cascade yarn. The original was in fingering weight, but I liked the colors in the Superwash Sport better, so decided to go with that. Sport’s just the next size
Easy list this year – just one. Middlegame – Seanan McGuire I can’t put my finger on why I couldn’t get into this. Interestingly, on LibraryThing, no one wanted to do a summary in their reviews because it’ll give too much away, so I suspect this is one of those books you either love or
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Boreas chart 5 is done. I completed this all in December – I wanted a little bit of a palate cleanser after some heavy knitting stash busting. Holy crap was that a lot of black thread! This is why I had to buy a cone’s worth. I love that you can actually see the hand
This is not an author I’ve read before. Her previous books are mysteries, and actually this book is a murder mystery, but one with a fantastic fantasy world built around it. Neema has risen to be the High Scholar for the Emperor Bersun, in an empire where each emperor or empress serves for 24 years.
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I’m doing a little bit of cross stitch as a palette cleanser right now, because I went hard on stash busting this past year. So I’m safe to post my completed projects for 2025. I intend to continue the stash busting next year as well – I’ve got a fair amount of patterns queued up
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We got a white Christmas, for the first time in a while. This entire December has been weird. For the portion of the month that was still technically Fall, we were treated to unusually cold temperatures – down to single digits overnight. I actually had to bring my dahlias in from the garage for a
