Embroidery Notes
Another quick over the knees shot of the next small section complete on Night Walked Down. I’m moving on to a large section next, so I should probably try to take better pictures next time.
Garden Notes
The garden is coming along nicely – I have buds on two of the larger dahlias, and I found myself out in the remnants of a tropical storm hand pollinating the first female pumpkin flower because there was actually a male open, and I wanted to make sure it was pollinated. (I’ve also removed my
Down Among the Sticks and Bones – Seanan McGuire
I am very quickly becoming very impressed with this author – she’s written what could be an incredibly dark story with such gorgeous language that it transcends the darkness. Jack and Jill are twins being jammed into roles planned by parents who know nothing about raising children, when they find their way through a door
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The Physicians of Vilnoc – Lois McMaster Bujold
It’s a measure of how much I trust this author that I read a story of hers about a plague. Because I can safely say that for the most part, too soon. (I have Connie Willis’ The Doomsday Book sitting in my TBR pile, and though I have heard nothing but good things about it,
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Spy, Spy Again – Mercedes Lackey
This is the last book in the series about Herald Mags’ children – in this case, his youngest son Tory is off for an adventure with his best friend, Prince Kyril, to help out Mags’ cousin who leads the Sleepgivers. Bey’s daughter has disappeared, and he needs help to find her. I enjoyed this story
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Embroidery Notes
I’ve got another panel done on Night Walked Down – it’s one of the bottom panels, which are probably less than half the size of the top panels, but it’s still one page! (This is another shot across my knees so I could keep stitching.)
Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo
Alex Stern was a teenage junky falling further and further into a terrible life, until the day that she woke up from a binge, with several people, including her very best friend, dead around her, not remembering anything that happened. And in the hospital, a dean from Yale arrived to give her a spectacular opportunity.
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Seasons of the Storm – Elle Cosimano
I had a really hard time finishing this book, for no particularly good reason. If I really had to nail something down, I think it was just a little bit too much teenage angst for me. The books goes between a couple different viewpoints – primarily Jack and Fluer. They’re both Seasons – young people
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Embroidery Notes
The second sheet from the Nights Walks Down pattern is done. (This is totally draped over my knees because I just wanted to keep going – no fancy picture taking for me!)
Garden Notes
Hit my first definite nope in the shrubbery beside the driveway. This is privet, which is non native, and therefore not something I’ll keep. So after work on Thursday, I pulled out all the privet and the rest of what I could get of the multiflora rose. That does still leave the maple sapling in