Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME
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In an Absent Dream – Seanan McGuire
Katharine Lundy is a middle child, and even worse, the child of her school’s principal. She’s always been good at following rules, so she quickly becomes invisible, since no one wants to risk friendship with the principal’s daughter. That’s when she first finds the door to the Goblin Market, where there are a few simple
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Garden Notes
Well, step #1 toward our solar installation is done. The tree on the east side of the house is down. I don’t take cutting down a tree lightly, but this was a junky tree – that side of the house is constantly littered with small branches. Plus, it’s a Norway maple, so it’s been sucking
The Forest Unseen – David George Haskell
This is an interesting book. A biologist spends a year going back to the same small patch in a Tennessee forest, and you get a slice of the seasonal things happening there. He relates a lot of the tales out to the larger world, and you’d be surprised how many stories you end up getting
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A Deadly Education – Naomi Novik
Loved this book. Galadriel is at an international boarding school for young wizards. They’re basically trapped there for four years, and constantly under threat from a whole bunch of nasty, evil beasties, but everyone keeps coming because it’s safer than being out in the real world at that age. Graduation is when you fight your
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Garden Notes
The garden’s coming along very nicely – it filled in quite a bit while I was gone. Of course the bad of being away for a week is that my peas went over while I was gone, so I didn’t really get to use those quite as well as I would have liked to. So
The Assassins of Thasalon – Lois McMaster Bujold
Penric’s brother in law Arisaydia is attacked by assassins from Cedonia (his former home), and Penric and Desdemona immediately see that something is seriously wrong. Someone is using demons as assassins, with the end results of these young demons burning out from killing someone. Arisaydia finds that there’s strife in the royal family, and he’s
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