What I really love about this author and this series is the range of stories she manages to work into this world. You never really know what you’re going to get in each book. This is a very quiet book – it starts with Miles making an incredibly stupid (and uncharacteristic) mistake – he […]
Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies. You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination
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This is one of my exception cultivated garden posts, because this botanical garden does make a point to feature native plants. And some of these are actually natives once you get outside of the cultivated areas.
Weekly Wildflowers – Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, ME Read More »
I really liked the premise of this book – set in Regency times (in a slightly alternate world where the Prince of Wales is not yet regent, and married differently than in our own timeline), Sarah Tolerance is a fallen woman. She was ruined by her family’s fencing master, and had a lovely life with
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My family is filtering into town – my sister and younger niece arrived a week ago Thursday (younger niece spent this week at her first sleep away camp). So the photo taking at our outings has been a bit reduced – I’ve been concentrating on tide pooling. But the beach is there, and is lovely!
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I aspire to have as a good of retirement output as Bujold does. I snap these novellas up as soon as I see them – they’re just such a great read. This story isn’t really revolutionary – Pen’s journeying into the countryside to find a forgotten shrine to his god, the Bastard. In a small
Penric and the Bandit – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
