Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. My only prior experience with John Connolly’s work was his novel The Book of Lost Things. That book definitely has some dark overtones, but the stories in Nocturnes make it look full of sweetness and light in comparison. The stories all have some level of creep to them, […]
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On my own for dinner tonight, and I was feeling in a definite veggie mood. I ended up making butternut squash with sage and a touch of brown sugar and balsamic vinegar, and some garlicky sauteed spinach. They looked a little lonely on the plate, as purely veggie meals sometimes do, but they were sure
Susanna sock number one is done! I definitely like the pattern. It goes pretty fast once I get going. I also like the yarn. It was a little sticky when I was winding it from the skein to a ball, but I’ve since had to frog it, and that went fine. It’s nice and soft.
I’ve succumbed to the lure of Malabrigo. I picked this up at Bee’s Yarns in Bar Harbor. Isn’t it lovely? Bee’s is a cute little shop. It’s just off the main knick-knack drag in Bar Harbor, and they also sell penny candy, so BF and I were both able to enjoy the trip inside.
And thus continues the story of Keladry of Mindelan as she works to become the first fully acknowledged Lady Knight of Tortall in centuries. More than anything, this book has made me want to go back and read the Alanna books, for parallels between the two, since at this point, no one knew Alanna was
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I’m back to loving Robin McKinley unconditionally again. I’d been a little leery after her last book Dragonhaven, but Chalice has won me back over. The book has definitely overtones of Beauty and the Beast, but isn’t a strict retelling. Mirasol is the new Chalice to the Willowlands, the second most powerful person in the
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Swiss chard and kielbasa pasta. The swiss chard stained the penne a lovely shade of pink in places. About the only thing that could have made the dish more fun was if I could have gotten my hands on some Northern Lights swiss chard (veggie 5063 I plan to have in my hypothetical garden) and
So this was the status of my Susanna socks last night, when I decided to try them on and found that I couldn’t even get them on my foot well enough to even tell if the heel would fit. And this after I was all proud of myself for navigating through rejoining to knit in
I clearly have an addiction to the color blue. Granted, I’d been planning on buying some of this yarn in blue the next time I went stopped by Seaport Yarn (which I ended up going to yesterday in my quest to fill out my swap package), but still. That now give me 11 blue items
I love Ravelry. I’ve been trading yarn lately like a fiend. A while ago, I decided to put everything I didn’t have immediate plans for in the trade/sell category of my stash. Several of the things in there are one ball only, but I figure if you just need that one ball… (And in fact,
