There’s a prophesy that when the Old King dies, his replacement will be a Queen. Keeley is the oldest of whole bunch of kids (thing number one I loved about this book – Keeley’s family – they’re a hoot), and has carried on her mother’s family tradition of blacksmithing. When she finds out it’s her […]
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We’re starting to get to the end game of this series. The Earth chancellor thinks Jess and Pavel are dead, so she’s trying to figure out how to destroy Mars and put an end to any final threads the two may have left on Earth. Meanwhile, they’re desperately trying to help Ethan figure out how
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This book is a retelling of ‘The Princess and the Pea’, but where it’s an ordinary girl who gets thrown in with the royal family, and eventually earns her place there by being herself. Alyssa is separated from her party in a storm and ends up at the Winter Palace. After completely charming the 11-year-old
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Night Walked Down is done. (The way the flowers in the fifth and sixth panels blended made it so I did them together, so no separate pictures.) I really enjoyed this pattern. I’m probably going to get a frame sooner rather than later for this, although where I think I want to put it needs
I’m just fascinated by fungus. They also frustrate me, because unlike wildflowers, they’re hard to identify down to a specific level (and I have a deep seated need organize things). This book reinforces why that’s the case. If you’ve never studied fungi much, they are just so diverse, and so fascinating. The author’s fascination with
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It’s interesting reading reviews of this book – people seem really divided about how badly humanity is portrayed in this book. Not that they started out looking too good in the first book of the series, but things get really grim in this second story. I’m really intrigued by this world building where humans really
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Got a new camera – I’d been less and less satisfied with my pictures lately, and being on the first whole week away for a while really solidified that feeling. So I looked it up, and I’ve actually had that camera since 2015. So what was a really premium point and shoot at the time
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