I really appreciated the notes at the beginning of the book that went over the highlights of what to keep in mind if you’d read Red Sister a while in the past. And I particularly appreciated that the author specifically called out that Keot did not appear in the first book, because having Nona have […]
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Pattern: Cellarium by Rachel IllsleyYarn: Swans Island Ikat Collection Watercolors in the Indigo/Teal colorwayNeedles: Size 2 circs and 3 circs and DPNs The cables in this pattern kicked my butt at first, for no really good reason. Once I was able to visualize what they were supposed to do, I was fine, but I
Mona is a 14-year old baker, who happens to have a magic gift with bread. This is a story about how even what seems like small magic can save the world, and also that being a hero can really suck. (With a healthy dose of adults may not always be in the position to do
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Katharine Lundy is a middle child, and even worse, the child of her school’s principal. She’s always been good at following rules, so she quickly becomes invisible, since no one wants to risk friendship with the principal’s daughter. That’s when she first finds the door to the Goblin Market, where there are a few simple
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Well, step #1 toward our solar installation is done. The tree on the east side of the house is down. I don’t take cutting down a tree lightly, but this was a junky tree – that side of the house is constantly littered with small branches. Plus, it’s a Norway maple, so it’s been sucking
This is an interesting book. A biologist spends a year going back to the same small patch in a Tennessee forest, and you get a slice of the seasonal things happening there. He relates a lot of the tales out to the larger world, and you’d be surprised how many stories you end up getting
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Loved this book. Galadriel is at an international boarding school for young wizards. They’re basically trapped there for four years, and constantly under threat from a whole bunch of nasty, evil beasties, but everyone keeps coming because it’s safer than being out in the real world at that age. Graduation is when you fight your
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The garden’s coming along very nicely – it filled in quite a bit while I was gone. Of course the bad of being away for a week is that my peas went over while I was gone, so I didn’t really get to use those quite as well as I would have liked to. So
Penric’s brother in law Arisaydia is attacked by assassins from Cedonia (his former home), and Penric and Desdemona immediately see that something is seriously wrong. Someone is using demons as assassins, with the end results of these young demons burning out from killing someone. Arisaydia finds that there’s strife in the royal family, and he’s
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The garden is coming along nicely. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on the blog, but our woodchuck problem is gone for the moment. Our chuck sadly did not make it when attempting to cross the main road nearby, and so far, no one seems to have moved in his territory. So we have a
