This book is based on the societies and mythologies of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (at least what we’ve been able to figure out about them), as well the theories of common dreams of the early psychoanalysts like Freud and Jung. If that sounds heavy, it’s not – it’s a really different story than […]
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It’s been a while since I read the precursor to this book (A Dirty Job) – it’s on my 2007 reading list, but I read it before I actually started the blog that year. So I definitely had to get back into the world of this story, which took a few chapters. Charlie
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This is the Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf by Karen Baumer. I’m making it with some of Tess’ Designer Yarns Microfiber Ribbon, which is not something I’ve ever worked with before, but the colorway was so cool, I had to buy some. This particular colorway was something she’d done up for a festival, and was the
Pattern: Citadel by Beata Jezek Yarn: Knit Picks Capra in the Pesto colorway and Reywa Fibers Embrace in the Festival colorway Needles: Size 5 circs and DPNs This hat promises to be warm – it’s a cashmere and yak hybrid, and the double layering seems promising. Here’s hoping I’ve finally found an airtight hat
The about the author section in this book owns to the fact that the author wrote it as an answer to what if there were fantastical elements underlying the social conventions that restrained woman in Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte books. Ivy Lockwell is the oldest of three sisters. Their father was once
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent – Galen Beckett Read More »
I didn’t think I’d get this book. I won it through EarlyReviewers back in November. I was totally psyched – I have very warm memories of my mother reading the Little House books to my sister and me when we were little. You generally don’t get those books for at least a month
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography – Laura Ingalls Wilder, ed. Pamela Smith Hill Read More »
Aren’t those just the cutest mutant carrots ever? And I have beets! (And really, beet greens!) I harvested both of these containers because they were really getting in the way of me getting to the tomato pots. Plus, since I’m not the kind of person willing to start my carrot bed
Pattern: Arianrhod by Sue Lazenby Yarn: Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud in Blossom Heather Needles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I finally got around to blocking my sister’s shawl this weekend. (It’s an ideal activity while waiting for a coworker to drive in and pick up our old couch to go to the dump.) I’m really
I’ve been rereading the Elenium and the Tamuli, which I won’t do a full write up by book. But I wanted to say a few things. First: the Belgariad and the Mallorean are still Eddings’ better works, but these two series are very readable. Second, and I don’t know if it’s because a friend recently started
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This the Citadel hat by Beata Jezek, using KnitPicks Capra in the Pesto colorway, and Reywa Fibers Yak in the Festival colorway. (Yak! I got it half off!!) Is it weird that winter hats make good summer projects?
