This year, I read: There was one scholarly book on myths, and two books that were much more fairy tale than fantasy themed (An Earthly Knight and The Perilous Gard). All in all, a good Spring run.
Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge – 3/21/15 to 6/21/15 Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. If you’ve read any of de Lint’s Newford books, you know he’s created an urban fantasy setting that incorporates parts of many world mythos (mythi? What is the plural for that word?). If a human mind has conceived it, it exists,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Lady Altheia is kidnapped on the night of her birthday celebration. While her family frantically searches for her, she wakes up in the forest, and realizes her captors are the Lithmern- ancient enemies of Alkyra. What’s worse is that they’ve brought
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I finally managed to get everything planted out this weekend. I may have kept the seedlings too long – we’ll have to see how those go, but at least everything’s in its final place for the year now, and we can just see how it goes.
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Callie lives with her mother in Kansas. It’s the 1930s, and nearly everyone else has left their town, due to the choking dust. But Callie’s mother won’t leave – Callie’s father had promised to come back to them, and Callie’s mother
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Here’s another great entry in the list of books that are mostly historical fiction, with just a touch of a fairy tale thrown in. In this case, it’s a combination of the stories “Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight” and “Tam Lin”. Lady Jeanette is the younger daughter of a Norman Lord living in
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Here’s the sky scarf, as of 5/31/15. You can see in this picture that I was finally able to introduce the dark gray I bought to represent thunder. I’ve used it four times so far. For one thunderstorm that happened in the middle of the night, I decided to
In which I include a single, pathetic image taken from inside my garage because it’s raining cats, dogs and probably a few sheep outside… I did make it out on Friday (took the day off) to buy some herbs: basil, Thai basil, lemon thyme, oregano, chocolate mint, nasturtiums and parsley, as well as a token
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,
