With the help of the Reckoners, David has managed to bring down the Epic Steelheart, and free the city if Newcago. But pretty soon, more Epics are on the way to try and bring down the Steelslayer. It’s quickly clear that they’re being sent by Regalia, who rules the city of Babylon Reborn, aka New […]
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This is a collection of columns Hornby wrote for a magazine in 2007 and 2008, about the books he read (or sometimes why he wasn’t reading). I was amused to read his discovery of the entire YA genre (I’ve known it was a great source of really good writing for years now), and happy to
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The community garden is officially put away for the season. Well, sort of. We have to clean up everything that needs to be cleaned up, and sign off on it by 11/1, and this being the last weekend before that date, I went ahead and pulled out everything that really needed to be pulled
This is one of those past and present stories, where a brooding location (Deeprath Castle in Ireland) links the past and present together in a mystery. In the present, we have Carragh Ryan, hired to catalog the library of Deeprath. The latest Viscount, Aidan Gallagher, has decided to give the castle away to the National
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I dehydrated the Korean peppers yesterday – the kitchen smelled lovely. About fourteen peppers gave me a about a pint jar’s worth of dried shards. (Plus a little room for a desiccant pack – we’re paranoid.) We figure we’ll grind on demand. Not bad considering my yield this year wasn’t great. I’ve got basil
Pattern: Damsel by Josee PaquinYarn: Quince and Co Willet in the Dory colorwayNeedles: Size 6 circs I decided to treat myself to the summer Quince Quarterly offering (level 1), because I figured it would be a fiber I didn’t usually knit with (it was – cotton), and it would be fun to get a random
This is Eurydice, by SpillyJane (a pattern I’ve been holding onto from a sock club from looong ago.) The yarn is Lichen and Lace Matte Sock, in the Teal Tide colorway. I’m making these for my Aunt N. (I hope. She has size 11 feet, and I’m not positive I have enough yarn. We’ll
This is a lovely graphic novel with translations of fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth not long after the Brothers Grimm had been doing their work there. His collection is not as well known because he did not publish it in his lifetime. They’re definitely familiar, but with little twists to the story
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Pattern: Hitchhiker by Martina BehmYarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Pure 100% Merino Superwash in the Paul colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs My Hitchhiker is done. This is a really enjoyable pattern – good sized repeat, and excellent tv (or hanging out with your two year old niece who has just enough attention span to let you
Our story begins when a young man named Elave returns from the Holy Land, bringing back the body of his master, William of Lythwood. They’d left on pilgrimage a number of years ago. Elave had been the clerk for the Lythwood family, and while they’re sad that William is gone, they’re happy to see Elave
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