This is an interesting alternate take on the Persian empire, bringing in Alexander the Great of Macedon. Nazafareen’s sister was taken by a druj (demon), and she joins the Water Dogs to try to avenge her death. The Water Dogs bind to daevas, who they are told are also druj, but there’s clearly more going […]
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This is a fun book – told jumping over about a twenty year period in the life of Maggie Bird, now a chicken farmer in a small town in Maine, but formerly a spy. She ended up in Purity when several of her other former spy friends settled there after their retirement, and this tale
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Here’s the Vivid blanket. I called this finished this week, but as I was laying it out to take pictures, it’s just not quite big enough. I have plenty of yarn left, so I can do one more square per color. That’ll add another long row, and that feels like it’ll balance it out correctly.
I started seeds yesterday. I have been rewarded today with a snow storm. Happy Spring? The flat on the left is the columbine I started before we left for Denmark. They sprouted the day after we got home, so that’s coming along nicely.
Anna and Charles are called in to investigate the disappearance of a community squatting on land that it turns out the pack owns in the California mountains. Due to prior events, the FBI has decided that Anna must lead the werewolves, and Bran is happy to not disabuse them of that notion, so he lets
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This book has three different novellas, two from Lackey’s early series, and a standalone third story. I loved the intros to each, because she wrote them for any younger person reading those earlier stories today, so set the scene of how technology has changed since those two older series. I have not read any of
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The Vivid blanket squares are done. Well, other than weaving in. I did go back and redo the binding on several of them to make sure they were loose enough.
I’m continually impressed by the world building in this series. The author is going after certain archetypes of fantasy races in the various peoples that live in the city of Elantra, but they’ve all got some interesting twists to them. And Kaylin as a character continues to have a very interesting back story for someone
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This book focuses on Roman, from the Kate Daniels books, priest of Chernobog, the god of destruction, death and darkness. Contrary to what that could make you think of how he should be as a person, we get to see Roman as a protector of the innocent and therapist to the gods. The authors do
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I love that Nigel Slater’s books are read through cookbooks. I enjoy the recipes, but the atmospheric intros make his books for me. This book is really more about the entire first part of the winter season, which just so happens to include a lot of Christmas traditions. Since that’s pretty much how I’ve landed
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