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
This book is in the companion series to the Mercy Thompson books, centering on the wolves of the Marrok’s pack in Montana. What’s fun about this book is we get to see some of the wildlings wolves, wolves who Bran has taken into his specific protection because they can’t be around regular werewolves, let alone
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Last weekend was in-law family Christmas, down on Cape Cod. We did manage to sneak away for one day, and while out and about, found our way to Marconi Beach. It was cold, but lovely, and the chop was good. There is a surfer in one of these pictures, if you squint.
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It hasn’t gone far yet because I’ve been distracted by other things, but the baby blanket for impending niece #3 has begun. I’m doing Vivid again because I really liked how it came out for M. This time, I’m going Cascade 220 Superwash Sport. She’s coming in April, so I’ll be ramping up on this
This book traces the entirety of the history of the moon’s influence on Earth. Needless to say, this a huge topic, and each chapter could probably have been a book of its own, but I really liked the overview I got. There’s a lot here from an evolutionary perspective (of the Earth itself, much less
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This is a trip of a modern fairy tale. I suppose I should have expected this, as Saint Death’s Daughter was an absolute trip of regular fantasy novel. This is a shorter work, with goblins and fae, and travel between the worlds they inhabit, if you know the way. Desdemona finds the way after realizing
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