Interesting book. It’s set in a vaguely Eastern cultured world, where people use magic called madra. Lindon is born without any specific ability to shape madra, meaning he’s unsouled – more or less useless to his family. But he’s determined to make something of himself, and through sheer force of will sets out on what […]
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Pattern: Zostera marina by Hunter HammersenYarn: Blue Moon Yarn Silky SockNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs First project of the year! It was mostly completed last year, but then I got a bug about eating up some yarn scraps before 2022 ended, so this went to the side for a bit. It’s an enjoyable pattern
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This is a reread, which I don’t normally write up, but these two books (this is the follow up to The Curse of Chalion), are just so incredibly good, I want to make sure I mention them again. Ista is a minor character in The Curse of Chalion, the dowager royina, mother to the two
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This year’s crazy pants cross stitch project: a full coverage extravaganza of my favorite Waterhouse painting, Boreas. (The study of which is a frequent avatar of mine.) I had to stock up on an insane amount of floss. And I may break down and get myself a way better frame – the piece of fabric
This was all the worsted (ish) weight scraps I had kicking around. I managed to get them all used up last night, so all of them are getting knocked out of my yarn tally ahead of of 2023. (I do like a good yarn purge.) I have a few other ideas for using up scraps,
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Books Not Finished The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu I’d heard good things about this book, and it’s certainly been well-lauded. But I was just not feeling it. Once I decided to stop reading it, I went and checked out reviews, and it does seem to be a book that either changed your life, or
Xian Li-Lin is a Daoist priestess in 19th century San Francisco. After the events of the first book of this series, Li-Lin has left her father’s temple after he disowned her, but she still tends to the dead. Which is why she’s brought the body of a young girl who was killed by a plant
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That’s a lot of hats… I thought I made more socks this year, but I guess I was coasting on memories of last year. My biggest failure was a shawl I cast on three separate times – I do plan to start it again this year, but I definitely needed some distance before I could
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I’ve got the BF reading the early Cordelia and Miles books, which made me realize I’ve been hoarding a few of the other books in the series in my TBR pile (a habit I really need to shake). So I picked one up, and enjoyed the heck out of it, as I always do. Miles
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We had a historic storm yesterday. We actually got rain (it was in the 50s the whole day), with tons of wind, and the height of it coincided with the monthly highest high tide. Needless to say, there were tons of trees down, and the coastal impacts were pretty epic. I mention this in a
