The backdrop of this book is an alternate world where magic is real, but the government of North America figured out where the magic genes are and chopped them out of everyone a couple of generations ago. But there is still magic in the rest of the world. Maggie’s a senior in high school, and […]
Shadows – Robin McKinley Read More »
The Vivid blanket progresses. I’d gotten to my original goal – four squares for each of the six colors – on Friday night. In laying them out today, I’m going to try and go for one more square in each color (which I’m fairly sure I have enough for, but I’ll know as soon as
I was reading an article about e-books recently, and it got me thinking about how e-books were impacting my own reading/book collecting tendencies. And I do think they are, but probably not in the way a lot of people would think about it. Travel: I am a firm believer that it’s not a vacation if
After plowing through Slater’s Ripe, I had to go back and get the book he wrote before that, which dealt with vegetables, instead of fruit. And I again found this to be one of the rare cookbooks I can read from cover to cover. However, it’s a little less useful to me than Ripe was,
Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch – Nigel Slater Read More »
Orrec lives in the Uplands, a poor region of farms that hides a people with extraordinary gifts. Each family’s gift is different. Orrec’s family’s gift if Unmaking, and his gift is untamed. He is forced to blindfold his eyes so he doesn’t destroy the people he loves. That’s really an aside to this book. The
Gifts – Ursula K. LeGuin Read More »
This is a serious, scholarly book about the 14th century, but written in such an approachable manner that anyone interested in this time period should be able to read it. To illustrate the time period, the author settles on one man to trace how his life was impacted by all the changes of this century.
A Distant Mirror – Barbara W. Tuchman Read More »
This is the last book in the Lyra collection for Kindle. Eleret must go to the city of Ciaron to collect her mother’s things, after her mother is killed in battle. They are Cilhar, warriors, and Eleret, though young, is tried and true, though unfamiliar with the ways of the Imperial city. Once she arrives
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Read for the RIP XI Reading Challenge. This is the eighth book in the Brother Cadfael books, and while all of the books deal with the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud in some degree (and it does touch this story), this book ends up being more about family drama, which is a
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It’s September, and the RIP Reading Challenge has rolled around again. I skipped last year, but I’m in the mood for some good mystery or dark fantasy reading again, so I’m back for this year. I’m going to aim for Peril the Second, which is two books in the challenge categories (Mystery,
RIP Reading Challenge XI 9/1/16 to 10/31/16 Read More »
I’m going to start this post out with a shout out to my new car, because I could never have accomplished the above in one trip in the Little Old Man. That’s five bags of mulch, two bags of potting soil, and a new trash can to hold my compost deliveries through the winter.
