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The Seventh Tower Volumes 1-3 (The Fall, Castle & Aenir) – Garth Nix

Lovely, different story then the Sabriel trilogy. (Does that trilogy have a name? I’ll have to look that up.) Definitely a younger slant than those books, but still an engaging story that I’ll enjoy reading the rest of, once I get near a Barnes and Noble again and can pick up their exclusive omnibus addition […]

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Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe – Nancy Goldstone

First, I have to say, I don’t normally bring hard historical non-fiction as a vacation reading book. Second, I slogged through Alison Weir’s book on Eleanor of Aquitaine (the grandmother in law of two of the queens mentioned in this book) earlier this year, and was a bit nervous about trying other book about roughly

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More July notes

Due to the excessive rain today (I’d wanted to get some gardening done before departing for my vacation on Wednesday), I managed to get the rest of the squares evened out in my celestial postage stamp quilt. I toyed with the idea of at least getting strips together, but the near dusk-like quality of the

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quilt block

Hurrah!

A mere two weeks and two days later, I finally regained the full use of my computer, just in time to be going on vacation next Wednesday! Ah well. Hopefully, I’ll still have the time to catch up on some of the posts I’d wanted to do. At the very least, last night after only

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quilt fabric

Early July Notes

Well, I’m mildly ashamed that this is my first post for the month of July, but not only is my computer still unformatted, but I’ve had to take some time to deal with the conclusion of my grandmother’s fight with ALS. I’ve come by my crafting skills from Grammie. In her later years, she made

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