Garden Notes
The barest touch of Spring in the garden.
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
I loved this book. At its barest bones, it’s “Rumpelstiltskin”, but the author is just using the spinning things into gold conceit and adding in Russian and Jewish folklore to get a fantastic tale of women taking charge of their lives to save the people they love. Miryem is the daughter of the local moneylender,
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Garden Notes
Seeds are set for the year. The cucumbers are for BF – he thought they looked interesting. The kale came along with that, which was nice – it’s a variety I’ve thought about. The rest are flowers to intersperse with the veg I’ll be putting in the community garden. I have all that seed already.
Kingdom of Ruses – Kate Stradling
Viola’s life is based on a family lie – for centuries, her family has served as the prime ministers to the Eternal Prince of their kingdom. Except there is no Eternal Prince – the family has used magic to show just enough of the Prince to keep him believable, while taking care of the kingdom
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Fierce Heart – Tara Grayce
This was a fun book – Essie is a princess, on her way with her brother, the king, to a meeting with the neighboring Elven kingdom. They desperately want peace, because there are worse enemies out there. Essie’s the one that comes up with the idea of offering herself in marriage to one of the
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The City of Lost Fortunes – Bryan Camp
Jude Dubuisson had always been lucky – he knows that his father was a god, though who exactly he is, he’s never known. But Jude’s managed to use his luck to exist in the supernatural side of New Orleans. Until Katrina came. For the last six years, he’s hidden from his magic. Until he receives
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In the Market for Murder – T. E. Kinsey
I had to go find my review for the first book in this series, and I find I have the same complaint about this book as I had in the last. Lady Hardcastle and her maid Flo have retired to the English countryside after a life of adventure, and I’m just not getting enough stories
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Alif the Unseen – G. Willow Wilson
This was a fun find – I heard about it in an online thread about books not written by white, Western authors. (The author is white, but Muslim.) Alif is a hacker – Alif being his handle, but it’s the name he uses internally, so it’s his name throughout the book. He lives in an
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Knitting Notes
Here’s another try for my leftover Tess’ Designer Yarns lace – the Laminaria shawl by Elizabeth Freeman. I’m doing the smaller size. I think this will be fun – it has some cool Estonian lace stitches. Should be a fun side project.
The Queen of Sorrow – Sarah Beth Durst
This is the last book of the Queens of Renthia, and features three queens- Daleina, Naelin and Merecot. Merecot takes the rather bold step of kidnapping Naelin’s children in order to enlist her help. It turns out there are wild spirits in Merecot’s kingdom of Semo that Merecot can only barely control. The Sorrow in
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