The Privilege of the Sword is the story of Lady Katherine Samantha Campion Talbert, who is shipped off to live with her uncle, the mad Duke of Tremontaine. He wants to make Katherine into a swordsman. He’ll also pay off all her family’s debts in the process, so Katherine dutifully goes to the city, and […]
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I went to the Beach today. (As point of reference, my beach with a capitol B is Crescent Beach in Cape Elizabeth, which is, and always will be the epitome of beachiness to me.) This is normally not a statement of much import, but the last time I was at the Beach was a blustery
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I thought I finished the Patricia A. McKillip Challenge yesterday with the completion of a fourth book, but after rereading the challenge rules, I realized I actually finished it back in August, with book three. However, in hindsight, I’m almost positive I read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld before, so book four makes up for
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Read for the RIP IV and Patricia A. McKillip Challenges. “She opened her drawing pad and sat there, drawing the stairs she remembered from her dream. They began in the tide, each ebbing wave revealing another step, and then another. As she drew, the mists overhead blew inland and sunlight streaked the water. She made
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I’ve finished the first of my year long reading challenges! I definitely preferred the TBR Lite format to the full TBR treatment I did last year. You wouldn’t think reading 12 books I’d been meaning to read anyway would be stressful, but setting a list at the beginning of the year turned out to be
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Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. I’m enough of a word geek to be familiar with the Oxford English Dictionary, but I admit to knowing next to nothing about its history. Considering the scope of the dictionary, it’s not surprising that it has a long and interesting story behind it. The OED was
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The new year of Sockdown has begun, and I’ve cast on Wendy Johnson’s Rivergrass socks in Sundara sock in the Pine over Gold colorway. This was the closest I’m willing to come to the other theme of the month, which is knitting with yellow yarn. I’m not a fan of yellow, and don’t look particularly
Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. The fourth installment of the Sookie Stackhouse novels has Sookie involved in a war between the vampires of Shreveport, and a coven of witches (who also happen to be Weres) that move in and try to take over the vampire’s territory. The vampire’s leader, Eric, has lost his memory
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I know time is flying when it’s already time to start the R.I.P. IV Reading Challenge. This year, I’ll be doing Peril the 1st, which is to read at least four books in the mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, or supernatural categories. So far, I’ve got the following queued up or in my
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Elvenblood is the sequel to the Elvenbane, and I went into this read thinking it was a reread, but as I read along, I found I really didn’t remember where the story the story was going, so I think this was the first the time I read this book. After rereading Elvenbane earlier this year,
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