Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challange. While this book is now fifty years old, it’s still regarded as a good overview of Norse and German mythology. This is a scholarly work, so don’t go in expecting just stories. There’s an overview of the Northern European worldview, and chapters dedicated to various […]
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LibraryThing Early Reviewers book. About a year after her husband passed away, one morning, Kate wakes up. While she’s been out on autopilot, her mother in law has taken the reigns – getting Kate’s daughter Devin into a new school, and packing their house up to sell. She’s even given Kate a new job in
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Why yes, it’s April now, and I’m just getting crocus. This winter has completely sucked. While we didn’t get that much snow (last year’s blizzard made that winter worse snowfall-wise), I don’t ever remember it being this cold, and I have a working recall of winters here back to the early 80s. Thankfully, we seem
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. This ended up being a fortuitous pick for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge, as this tale owes a great deal to tales from Russian folklore. Ferus is the king of Serre, and is a cruel man. His only son and heir, Ronan, has
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. This story takes place in the same world as The Curse of Chalion, and Paladin of Souls, two books I adored. While those books are about one family – the royal family of the kingdom of Chalion, this book is set in another country, which
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Thomas the Rhymer is an old tale, based on a real man in medieval Scotland. In the old ballads, Thomas meets the Queen of Elfland, and is taken away by her to her realm, where he lives for seven years. After that, he returns to
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I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to this reading challenge this year. It’s become a sign of Spring for me, and with the general suckitude of winter this year, I’ll admit, I’m really looking forward to anything having to do with Spring. (Seriously. I have never done this much garden planning
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So on the heels of the Flicker socks, I finished off the Risata yarn with a few more hexipuffs. The nice thing about these ones is they’re different than my regular color palette, so should lend some nice contrast. After that, I was a little bit of loose ends, because I was waiting for
I can’t believe I managed to take a two year break from catching up on Fables. And yes, I still have plenty more to catch up on, because there’s been more added since I last picked them up. I really have to remember that they’re great filler books for when I want to hold off
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Pattern: Flicker Socks by Cookie AYarn: Knitpicks Risata in the Fairy Tale colorwayNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs I’d gotten this pattern in a swap a while ago, and I’d also been holding onto this yarn for a while (quite a while – it’s discontinued), so they seemed a like a natural fit for a quick project.
