I officially give up on growing cilantro. It always bolts within about a week of me getting it to a size I can actually think about using. And yes, it’s kind of pretty, and the bees like it, but I’m not getting any use out of this plant. So I guess it’s […]
I like historical fiction. I’m fully willing to admit that much historical fiction takes a somewhat rosy view of the past, and there’s quite a bit out there that glosses over some of the more unpleasant (to modern eyes at least) aspects of cultures in the past. The Tiger in the Well pretty much embraces
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Tamson House is in Ottawa – and takes up an entire city block, a ringed fortress around a central garden. It looks perfectly normal from the outside, but what most people don’t know is that it’s a nexus, a portal to the other worlds that touch our own. Its garden is an echo or the
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With the extremely steamy first day of summer upon us, I can safely say I’ve finished this year’s reading for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. I did challenge the first, which was to read at least five books in the challenge categories (fantasy, folklore, fairy tales and mythology). Due to a fair number of
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Cazaril has escaped from slavery, and for refuge, seeks the safest place he can think of, the noble household where he served as a page when he was a boy. But once there, to his surprise, he’s named the secretary-tutor to the sister of the heir to
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. This book combines three novellas of some sort of romantic fantasy. Rachel Lee’s ‘Drusilla’s Dream’ is a fun little little story that manages to combine a night shift data entry job with a good, old-fashioned quest by a princess to find the Behemoth that can save her
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Back on the last day of May, I cast on Anne Hanson’s Palimpsest Stole, using some Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud yarn (Horizon colorway) I’ve had in my stash for a while. I bought this pattern back in March 2011, and it’s a good thing I didn’t try it until now. It’s true lace, with the
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Yeine’s mother had fled her life as the heir to the King of Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and gone north, where she had married Yeine’s father, ruler of the kingdom of Darr. Yeine had known little of her mother’s life, but when her mother mysteriously dies, Yeine is
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Claire and Sydney are sisters – both members of the Waverley family, which means something in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Claire learned from their grandmother how to prepare dishes grown from the herbs in their garden, things like the honeysuckle wine they always bring to
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Yeah, I may have gone a little crazy with the Pookies this week. I finished the last of these new three last night. Let’s see, they involve three different kinds of Cascade 220, Knitpicks Merino Style, Mission Falls 1624 Wool, and the Quince and Company Lark I’m using for the faces. One of the Cascade
