I found this and Volume III at the used book store for ridiculously cheap – a lovely holiday find. I forget how much I like Slater’s writing style until I’m reading one of his books again. And yes, these are cookbooks you can read. The stories that go along with each recipe are just such […]
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First craft project of the year is done! This is Owl Forest’s Fly Agarics. It’s a fun project. Looking back at the picture on the site, the one big difference is that it’s designed to use some hand dyed variegated floss. I like the substitution colors that were given, but that variegation does look pretty
Hugh of Emblin is shipped off to the mage school at Skyhold as soon as his powers manifest – Emblin is rather proud of its reputation for no magic, and everyone there wants him gone as soon as he displays powers. The trouble is, once at Skyhold, no one can seem to teach him to
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I bit the bullet and did a Johnny’s order this year. The one thing I don’t like about Johnny’s is that they’re not really in it for the home growers, so their shipping costs are much more expensive than most other seed companies. I ultimately don’t mind paying them, because they’re a wonderful, local to
I’ve been really enjoying this series – it’s got some decent politics to it, and some nice romances, but none of it is particularly fraught – you know everything will turn out alright in the end. Princess Jalissa of the Elves and Prince Edmund of Escarland grew “close” during the captivity of Jalissa’s brother Farendel
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This is a novella in the Kinsmen series. We’re still on Dahlia, and two members of rival families need to team up to save both their families from bankrupty (and the scandal of having their spouses run off together). I enjoyed this immensely – Ramona and Matias are just great together, right off the bat.
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This book picks up at the end of The Lord of Stariel, with Hetta now confirmed as the Lord, and her relationship with Wyn on a new footing. This book is mostly told from Wyn’s point of view, and it’s an interesting one. Since he’s a prince of the Fae, we get a greater view
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I feel like I didn’t read as much this year, though looking at the raw numbers, I’m fairly on par with normal years. But I do feel like my mojo has gone away a bit – I feel like I’m not alone in this. It’s definitely been a weird year.
1. The Discovery of Middle Earth – Graham Robb I’m about forty percent of the way through this book, and I just can’t anymore. The author is writing about his ideas for the continental Celts’ cosmology, and why they built their towns were they did. They’re not bad ideas, but I don’t think they’re enough
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This the fourth of the Alpha and Omega books, and I’m still back a bit from where I’m up to the Mercy Thompson books. Here, the Fae have newly retreated to their reservations, and it seems that some of them are not happy to have had to this. They’re unleashing some of their worst against
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