Read for the 2009 YA Challenge. This YA novel, set in an alternate England after the Napoleonic Wars where magic exists, takes the form of letters between cousins Kate and Cecy. Kate’s been sent to London for the Season, and Cecy has stayed at home. Even apart, they manage to find themselves in the midst […]
My BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan, so we have a large variety of Neil Gaiman’s work here at the house. With Jessi at Casual Dread starting a Neil Gaiman themed challenge, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to delve into the parts of the collection I haven’t touched yet. There are four levels of participation
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I finished sleeve #1 of the Brocade Leaves sweater last night, which is good, except that I now know I don’t have enough yarn to finish sleeve number two. So I’ll be making a Knit Picks order before I start with the second sleeve, and I’ll just have to pray that the dye lots are
Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge So I managed to stay up about forty-five minutes late on a work night so I could finish Eclipse. I suppose I’m smitten. I’ve been trying to put my finger on why exactly I enjoy this series as much as I have been, and it’s been tough. As a
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Kathrin at It’s All About Books is hosting a Vampire Challenge. Since I got a vampire book for Christmas (that I’m dying to read), aim to finish the Twilight books shortly, and am working on the Sookie Stackhouse novels, how could I resist signing up? The challenge is to read at least two books with
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I really wish I’d know about Marion Zimmer Bradley’s various short story anthologies back when they were being published. I was in my teens at the time, but she usually had at least one teen in each anthology, and my head is often full of might have beens when I read these books now. At
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I’ve started over on my mother’s Spring Forward socks, and somehow managed to lose one of the needles. I figure it must have dropped off the couch when I was moving around last night, but despite combing through the entire living room, I can’t find the little bugger. I can substitute a Harmony needle, but
With 2009 now upon us, I think I can safely say I’ve finished with my 2008 reading. Here’s the list: Seventy-six is a pretty respectable number, but I still want to reach 100. I think about the only way I could do that is to reread a few more books, and not read anything that
I’m on a challenge signing up roll today! (Ok, maybe not, only because I got a little indecisive after completing this list, but I pondered four more challenges!) I really enjoyed Lenneth’s Mythopoeic challenge last year, and she’s put up another challenge for this year that’s right up my alley. I very much enjoy Patricia
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I know I said I wasn’t going to do the TBR challenge this year, but there’s now a TBR Lite Challenge, and being able to read 6 books from my TBR pile, and change the list whenever I want to (option B) definitely appeals to me. I know I can switch out the list whenever
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