I thought McKillip only had one scifi book – but it’s actually three. Moon Flash (and its sequel, which I have not yet read) could be mistaken for fantasy at the beginning, but turn out to be scifi as the story moves along. Kyreol is the daughter of the village Healer, in a simple […]
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So remember how I snapped off about half of one of my tomato plants while I was getting the cages on, and really wasn’t sure if it would pull though? Well, it’s now the heartier of the two plants, both of which had to go to tier two of the tomato cages today.
I’ve been sitting on this book for a while – my only other experience with this author was the movie version of The Remains of the Day, which I loathed. (I think that was a case of seeing something with the wrong expectations or in the wrong mood – it’s been long enough I
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I have to admit, I’m a little sad I only have one book left in this series. I know I can count on these books when I want to be amused and entertained. The Wizards are up to their old tricks with the Enchanted Forest, and since Queen Cimorene is pregnant, everyone else is
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A few things from the garden, courtesy of my new camera. I’m already loving the macro function.
I still love this author’s use of language – she reminds me of Patricia McKillip – her landscape descriptions are amazing. I loved the first trilogy of hers that I read. I’m finding this series a bit more of a slog. The series is basically the story of the descendants of
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The sky scarf is now officially half done. (It really is, because I haven’t yet touched it in July.) It is pretty funny, because you can really see that June was grayer than May. I realized I’m going to have to order more white, and more of the medium blue (which has become
I am super impressed with the climbing rose in my garden – after the last two winters, I wasn’t convinced it was going to survive. It’s actually blooming quite nicely now – I think having to clear out all the deadwood was actually good for it. The lilies are also doing great, especially
For something completely different, I turned to a Jane Austen interpretation. This one was meant to fill in the missing pieces of Darcy’s story – so we could see the thought process behind why he would decide to try and win Elizabeth Bennett after she rejected his first proposal. It’s not a bad book.
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Between Damia and the Music of Darkover, I was feeling a bit nostalgic, so decided to reread one of the actual Darkover books. This one is the tale of when Earth finally happened upon the lost colony, and the people of Darkover find out that they did not originate on their world. It’s an
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