It’s been a while since I’ve done a Knitting Note post – this shawl kicked my butt, in the best way. I’ll do a more detailed post once it’s blocked, but the knitting is actually done. I’m actually feeling a bit adrift. It took me a while to really get going with this, and due […]
We pick up Zinnia’s story after A Spindle Splintered. She’s gotten a bit of a remission from her terminal diagnosis, and is using her newly opened up time to rescue other Sleeping Beautys from their fates across the fairy tale multiverse. And then one day, she finds herself in a Snow White story instead. I
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The tomatoes are gone. After the last blight removal chop, which was drastic, they just weren’t doing much. I decided to cut my losses. I also pulled the netting off the brassicas. At some point over the week, a hole developed. I have no idea how long it had been open. I managed to patch
This is a fun regency monster story. It has a really interesting twist on zombies. The French decided to go the route of getting to the English army through their wives. Some poisoned face powder was put out in London, and several hundred gentlewomen (and a few unlucky servants) died – and then woke back
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This is the second book in the trilogy that follows the founding of the Kingdom of Valdemar. Kordas’ people have escaped the empire, and are now journeying through the wild lands to the west. There are people there, and they’ve resolved to not overwhelm anyone that’s already settled, so they need to move on from
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The trellis down. It was already tipping, and I didn’t have time to take it down when we had a hurricane bearing down on us. Fortunately, the hurricane was more or less a bust in Southern Maine, but I took that as a sign, and just snipped all the bean stems this morning. I’ll let
This is a fun, regency set, but fantasy oriented, book. Gussie is the only non-magical member of the Werth family, a family infamous for their powers. But, when she’s kidnapped, she finds that she might be the most magical of them all. The story’s fairly basic, and you’ll get no real surprises out of it,
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Sherlock Holmes is dead – but Sarah, Nan and the Watsons know that that’s not true. He’s had to go to ground to defeat Moriarty. Moriarty is actually dead, but because he has a necromancer in his employ, that necromancer is doing his best to bring Moriarty back – which goes straight into rather grizzly
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Well, it’s September, and Mother Nature finally picked up on the fact that she didn’t torture us nearly enough with hot weather in August, so we got several days of humid 80s over the last week. I’ve pretty much given up any pretense of normalcy – I’m just rolling with whatever happens at this point.
In this book, fairy tale narratives exist in our real world, ready to send a person down a certain path, just because they were unlucky enough to be born with just the right characteristics to a fit a particular story. That’s where the ATI Management Bureau comes in – they’re a hidden government agency tasked
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