This is a collection of novellas, so I’ve read some before (Earthsea), but some were new to me. It’s LeGuin, so they’re all good. I think with anything of hers, it’s a matter of what I’m in the mood to have stick with me. This time it was “Paradises Lost”, which is set on a […]
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I’ve brought the In Dreams shawl out of hibernation. It’s been a year in a half – I really meant to get back to it sooner. I’d already invested in some metal needle tips, which have helped. And what I’ve learned this time around is that I really, really need to pay attention to the
So after May ended with a day in the 90s, June decided it was going to be time to rain. The first weekend was a washout. And my seedlings were really starting to get sick of being in pots. Oh, and we had that little trip to Montreal coming up. So I spent all my
I picked up the Into Shadow short story collection from Amazon because it has stories from several authors I’ve read before, and definitely looked like the subject matter was in my wheelhouse. This is the third I’ve read – I liked the prior two, but this one really spoke to me. This is the story
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This was an interesting twist on Pride and Prejudice. Only some people can hear dragons, and in the past, the nobility of England made a treaty with them, where some dragons would have keepers appointed from the nobility, and would be attached as caretakers to their estates. So Longbourn is a dragon, and Elizabeth and
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We’ve got another Elemental Masters comes to America book, but in this case, America is coming to Europe. Annie Oakley and her husband are traveling with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, and they’ve come to Germany. It’s winter now, and they’ve settled down in Strasburg for winter quarters. While they’re there, Buffalo Bill decides to
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While we were gone, I relocated all the house plants to the back room, so we could close the window shades that they were normally in front of. The seedlings and the bedding plants were still under the grow lights, and I didn’t want those window shades open at night with all that light to
We had a frost last week, after I stupidly planted out a few of the tender plants I bought last weekend. Lesson learned there. (I covered them – they did survive. Fortunately, it was only four plants.) So the rest of the plants I bought are jammed in with my seedlings under the grow lights,
This book occurs relatively late in the timeline of this series, and concerns Miles’ cousin Ivan. It’s more or less the story of how a notorious womanizer finally finds the right woman, and settles down. It helps that the right woman is one of the daughters of one of the baronial families of Jackson’s Whole.
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The Lana Plantae Rambouillet Fingering in Cochineal & Madder is finally used up! The “problem” with this yarn is that it’s a 500 yard skein (as opposed to a 100 g skein), so it feels like it took forever to finally use up. I really did like this yarn, the color is so cool. It’s
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