Miyara is a princess, on the eve of the day she’s supposed to dedicate herself in service to her people. She’s the fourth daughter, so her older sisters have taken their own paths, and she’s at a loss for what to do herself. So she chooses to leave, which exiles herself from her family. So […]
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We’ve had a stretch of really blah weather for a bit now, so while there are definite signs of Spring (all of the above pictures are from my backyard), I have not been out doing as much yardwork as I would like. I have plans, but not enough dry hours to accomplish all of them.
This is the second book in a series that started as a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, with dragons. Alaistair and Aliza are now married, and the story goes off into original territory. There’s some good world building here – quite a bit of interesting mythology, with a twist, comes in. But the story can
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Pattern: Eira by Kelly G.Yarn: Lana Plantae Rambouillet Fingering in the Cochineal & Madder colorway, Quince and Co. Chickadee in Iceland and Quince and Co. Finch in EgretNeedles: Size 2 DPNs Using up yarn continues. I had some definite tension issues on the sides of these. It got better on the second one, but wasn’t
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This is a lovely interpretation of “Sleeping Beauty”, where our main character suffers from a terminal illness, and it’s the suffocation of her parents’ love and trying to help her that’s ruled her life. She’s an adult now, on borrowed time, waiting for her figurative spinning wheel to appear, when instead, she’s sucked into another
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