Ropa lives in Edinburgh, and makes a living a messenger for the dead – bringing messages back to their loved ones. While it’s clearly a fantasy, it starts out in what could be our world, but very quickly, clues start to come in that Ropa’s world is not at all like ours. The people of
The Library of the Dead – T. L. Huchu Read More »
I started this book back on September 15th. It’s in translation from Polish, and I’d be curious to see if it’s as dense in that language as in English. I had to take long pauses between readings. Honestly, I usually dump a book by now with pauses this long in between, but I really did
The Widow Queen – Elzbieta Cherezinska Read More »
This is a collection of novellas, so I’ve read some before (Earthsea), but some were new to me. It’s LeGuin, so they’re all good. I think with anything of hers, it’s a matter of what I’m in the mood to have stick with me. This time it was “Paradises Lost”, which is set on a
The Found and the Lost – Ursula K. LeGuin Read More »
I’ve brought the In Dreams shawl out of hibernation. It’s been a year in a half – I really meant to get back to it sooner. I’d already invested in some metal needle tips, which have helped. And what I’ve learned this time around is that I really, really need to pay attention to the
So after May ended with a day in the 90s, June decided it was going to be time to rain. The first weekend was a washout. And my seedlings were really starting to get sick of being in pots. Oh, and we had that little trip to Montreal coming up. So I spent all my
I picked up the Into Shadow short story collection from Amazon because it has stories from several authors I’ve read before, and definitely looked like the subject matter was in my wheelhouse. This is the third I’ve read – I liked the prior two, but this one really spoke to me. This is the story
The Six Deaths of the Saint – Alix E. Harrow Read More »
This was an interesting twist on Pride and Prejudice. Only some people can hear dragons, and in the past, the nobility of England made a treaty with them, where some dragons would have keepers appointed from the nobility, and would be attached as caretakers to their estates. So Longbourn is a dragon, and Elizabeth and
Pemberley: Mr. Darcy’s Dragon – Maria Grace Read More »
As usual with this kind of post, I’m going to split these between the planted native flowers, and the flowers I found growing wild, which may or may not be native. Planted Wildflowers Wild Plants
Weekly Wildflowers – Montreal Botanical Garden, Montreal, QC, Canada Read More »
