This was a fun book – Tesla Crane is one of the richest people in the world, thanks to her family’s robotic business. She’s newly married, and she and her husband are on their honeymoon – a cruise to Mars. And then there’s a murder. Tesla’s husband is actually a retired detective, but he’s the […]
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Finally made it down to Crescent Beach after the January storms, and it’s not great. Like canyons carved into paths and large swaths missing from the former coastal line not great. Not surprising, but still sobering. I was heartened to see that despite how warm it’s been, nothing is blooming yet.
Crescent Beach State Park and the January 2024 Storm Read More »
Biddy has grown up on a hidden island off the coast of Ireland, raised by the magician Rowan and his familiar, Hutchincroft, who spends most of his time as a rabbit. It’s a rather idyllic existence, but as she gets older, she starts to realize that it’s rather odd that Rowan doesn’t allow her to
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So, first day of March, and the garden has no snow on it. (Could have said the same thing for the last day of February – we had rain on Wednesday that got rid of almost all the snow. What’s left is in very shady corners.) I have never made a secret of not being
It occurred to me that I haven’t posted about my sweater project in a while. I finished the body a couple weeks ago, and then just had some trouble wrapped my head around joining the sleeves back on, in pattern. I did finally do that about a week ago, and got to the end of
This is a such a sweet little story. Otta’s six, and lives on her father’s ship. One morning, the ship’s boy finds a rat, and Otta sees a pet. The First Mate doesn’t approve, and sends the rat overboard. What they don’t know is that the rat is hosting a baby elemental – the very
Demon Daughter – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
I saw this used, and snagged it because I like the author. It’s a fun enough book – presented as a dictionary of all the tropes you’d run into in a fantasy story. It was published in 1996, so it’s fun to think about how much things actually have changed in fantasy-book land since that
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland – Diana Wynne Jones Read More »
I have such a love hate relationship with the world of this series. I’m honestly not sure why I keep reading them. I feel like I need to do some sort of psychological deep dive into this. I like this kind of story, and the world building is pretty unique, but I think there’s something
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I cannot emphasize how little sun we’ve gotten for a good chunk of January. The sun actually came out today, for the first time in what seems like ages, so we braved the wind and went to the coast. We had two insane coastal storms the week of January 7th – the worst being the one
Two Lights and Kettle Cove – Cape Elizabeth, ME Read More »
I started the Boreas cross stitch about a year ago, and stalled out fairly quickly because it was just too big to do comfortably. So, I finally bought an embroidery stand with some birthday money I’ve been sitting on since April. I decided I needed something a little less large to get myself back into things,
