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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Furthering my reread of the Pegasus/Rowan books, I’ve moved on to Damia, which was actually my first experience with this series, back in the pre-internet days when it was harder to track down books that weren’t in bookstores, and you settled for what you got, even if it was out of sequence… Damia is the
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Published in 2013, this was the first new Darkover anthology in a very long time. The music theme apparently grew out of a submission for the planned anthology (Stars of Darkover – currently sitting in my TBR pile) that was based on a Darkover filk song, but was way too long to include
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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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