Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. I started a tradition a few year back to try and read a more scholarly book in one of the Once Upon a Time challenge categories. Here’s this year’s selection – a collection and comparison of similar mythological themes across world cultures. If […]
Parallel Myths – J. F. Bierlein Read More »
I’m in a weird kind of holding pattern with the garden at the moment. One issue is that Memorial Day (one of our planting benchmarks) is on the early side this year, which had not lined up very well with my other benchmark – blooming iris. I actually do have one blooming,
Librarything Early Reviewers book. I very much enjoyed this book for the recipes, but not so much for the chapter content. Each chapter is arranged around some aspect of French home cooking, with the author using various friends and neighbors as examples. I think the best way I can characterize those
In a French Kitchen – Susan Herrmann Loomis Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Have you ever accidently found yourself several books into a series, with no labels to tell you that, leaving you to wonder exactly why you’ve been missing something, and not knowing exactly what that something is? That was my experience with this book.
The Silver Rose – Susan Carroll Read More »
A few more hexipuffs to finish off the Tess’ Designer sock yarn. There are few more here than I usually like to make from one color, but it’s so much lighter than a lot of what I already have, that it seemed like the contrast would be a good thing.
Here’s a slight twist on the Regency romance – in this world, some people are gifted with the abilities of glamour – the magical ability to manipulate light. At its most basic form, it’s considered womanly magic, something used to make the home brighter and more comfortable. Where the regular Regency romance comes in is
Shades of Milk and Honey – Mary Robinette Kowel Read More »
Garden clean up continues. This time, it was the annoying variegated bush in the front yard. Notice how it’s poking through a hole in the shutter? Well, it’s under much better control now. It’s really amazing what a week of 70 degree weather will do. I left for Florida on Sunday.
Up until now, I’ve read Heyer’s Regency romances, but she wrote some historical novels as well. (What I didn’t know about this one until I read the forward is that it’s unfinished – she never had the concentrated time to devote to it that she wanted to.) This is the story of John of Bedford,
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I really like how this book picks up a few centuries after the action of the Mistborn novels – society has changed and evolved due to what happened in those books – it’s really cool to see how that has changed, and what was brought forward from that older time. The setting is part Old
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Kate and her sister Alicia are both ladies in waiting to the Lady Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I) when her sister Mary is still Queen. Since Alicia is the sweet, innocent one, an imprudent remark of hers is blamed on Kate, and Kate
The Perilous Gard – Elizabeth Pope Read More »
