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.
Another Kindle sale book here – but I might have paid more for it had I known about it earlier. The Lizzie Bennett Diaries are a fantastic web series that adapted Pride and Prejudice into the modern day. Lizzie’s a communications grad student doing a web series as a project, and Darcy is
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet – Bernie Su and Kate Rorick Read More »
I picked up this book (and the other five in the series) on a .99 cent Kindle sale. Jessamyn is a pilot on Mars, training all her young life to be able to make the run to Earth to get supplies for the Colony. This is complicated by a war that resulted
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This is a great ending to the Confederation novels. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has finally been sent back to her unit on the front, when they’re attacked. Torin pretty much knows she’s going to die when she hears a bomb coming in on their position, but she instead wakes up in a prison
Valor’s Trial – Tanya Huff Read More »
I was very curious to see how this book was going to work – it’s a tacked on end to a former trilogy that actually ended with the death of Arthur. So bringing back another Arthur story was definitely a bold move. What this story does is go back to a few
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I would like to be able to say that my garden has been puttering along nicely, now that we’re in July/August, and as you can see above, it has. I’ve even gotten my first harvest from the tomatoes and shishito peppers. But this is what it looked like until this morning. Have I mentioned
I’m often surprised how many de Lint books are out there that I still haven’t read. The man is nothing short of prolific. This is a book of short stories, with familiar characters, and characters that are just passing through or around Newford. My favorite story in this book is “Seven Wild Sisters”
Tapping the Dream Tree – Charles de Lint Read More »
I realized I haven’t posted anything about any knitting for a while, and there is a good reason for that. It’s been hot (this is going to become a recurring theme in the next couple of posts.) So the blanket I’ve been working on is probably the best possible project to be working
