I very much enjoyed this book. Maia is the overlooked fourth son of the Emperor of the Elflands, the only child of a political marriage to a Goblin princess after his father’s most beloved wife had died. They were fairly quickly banished to the hinterlands, and with three older brothers, Maia never expected to ever […]
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This took me quite a while to get through – it’s an homage to Jack Vance’s Dying Earth series, and the writing is very true to the unique tone and world that he created. Which I very much enjoy, but can’t take in large doses. (I don’t tend to like authors with a more florid
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This is number one of a pair of Zostera marina socks, by Hunter Hammersen. The yarn is Blue Moon Yarn Silky Sock in a nice mix of bluey green and purple. I’m enjoying this pattern – there are instructions for varying the spirals so you can make the socks mirror each other, which is pretty
Having forgotten to read the blurb on this book before I stowed the dust cover (we have this in hard cover, and I hate reading books with a loose dust cover), I was mighty confused when Peter suddenly had left the police force and was getting hired on as security at a tech company in
False Value – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
It was in the 70s the weekend before last. So of course, I was away, and therefore had to put the garden to bed in 30’s November weather yesterday. I suppose it could have been worse – I did see the forecast, so avoided doing it today in the 20 degree wind chill and snow
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This novella is set in the world of the Rivers of London series, but takes place in Germany, without any of the regular characters making an appearance, except as a passing reference. Tobias Winter is Germany’s version of Peter Grant, and we get to follow a case of his. We get to meet some different
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Another great Penric and Desdemona story. Pen and Des are summoned to the healer’s house over a most unusual illness. What they find is even more unusual than the healer had suspected. A man who was fished out of the harbor is actually dead, but appears to be alive because he’s being inhabited by another
Knot of Shadows – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
I’ve been cycling through books recently – I’ve actually got three open books on the Kindle at the moment that I haven’t been able to keep attention on long enough to finish. (I’ll probably nope out on one by the end of the year, and another is a short story anthology that I’m really enjoying,
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