This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the sleeper is a prince in need of rescue, and the rescuer is a noblewoman turned treasure hunter who also happens to be under a curse. She’s fallen in with another princess turned exile (and expert axe welder) who’s totally falling in love with a Red Riding […]
The Bone Spindle – Leslie Vedder Read More »
I have two sweaters going right now. I really need to decide what to do with them. I suspect the colorwork sweater may not survive – I’m not sure I can do the sleeves without making them too tight. But I feel like I also owe it to myself to try. The other is more
Look! It’s starting to look like a thing! Finished chart 2 of my crazy making Boreas full cover cross stitch. (Look up Waterhouse’s Boreas if you want to see how small a section of the upper corner of the painting this is.) The second chart went much faster than the first, once I got the
What I really love about this author and this series is the range of stories she manages to work into this world. You never really know what you’re going to get in each book. This is a very quiet book – it starts with Miles making an incredibly stupid (and uncharacteristic) mistake – he
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What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies. You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination
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I really liked the premise of this book – set in Regency times (in a slightly alternate world where the Prince of Wales is not yet regent, and married differently than in our own timeline), Sarah Tolerance is a fallen woman. She was ruined by her family’s fencing master, and had a lovely life with
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I aspire to have as a good of retirement output as Bujold does. I snap these novellas up as soon as I see them – they’re just such a great read. This story isn’t really revolutionary – Pen’s journeying into the countryside to find a forgotten shrine to his god, the Bastard. In a small
Penric and the Bandit – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while – I think it was a Kindle First Reads book, back when we actually had Prime. It’s a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in the Bennet women’s house at Longbourn College, which reminds me quite a bit of my New England liberal arts college experience,
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A mere year and a half after I started, I have finished chart #1 of the full coverage Boreas cross stitch painting reproduction. (This is a couple trees on the horizon, since you really can’t tell without context.) It took me a while to finally get the right set up to hold this – it’s
Interesting magical world – it’s based on Jewish magical mythology, where magic was brought in based on heritage (shocker – there are a lot more people of Jewish decent than you’d think), but it’s an all or nothing thing. Ashira Cohen always thought she as mundane, even having a Nefesh father. She’s made a life
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