It’s twelve books into the Elemental Magic series, which started with fairy tale retellings, and eventually branched into Sherlock Holmes, and has now brought in Cthulu. If you’re at all familiar with Lovecraft, you have a pretty good idea of what takes place in this book, but it’s so much fun to see how Lackey […]
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In a former life, when I had much more free time, I was a language nerd. I’ve given up a fair amount of that these days, but do still enjoy the odd book about language. This one is by a linguistics professor who also writes a blog (Separated By a Common Language) that I’ve been
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The knitting portion of my Salal sweater is done. However, I’m trying to do a reinforced grosgrain ribbon button band, and the buttonholer in my sewing machine is kicking my butt. Fortunately, I have plenty of grosgrain ribbon. So that’ll get done eventually. I’ve given up for today, at least. I finished
The garlic is all cured, and cleaned up. The two varieties I grew were Duganski and German Red – I think the larger heads on the left are the German Red. Can’t wait to see how they taste. Conveniently, my last head of store garlic is just about out.
Pattern: Knit Stars by Kirsten HipskyYarn: Quince and Co Tern in the Buoy colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs Here’s a fun little stash busting pattern. Since I had some yellow yarn, I felt like I really needed to use it in some Christmas stars – this is a really easy pattern that fits that bill.
The second of the Family Spies books follows Mags and Amily’s middle child – daughter Abidela. Abi’s been training with her father in the spy business, but it’s a bit of a place holder, because she hasn’t found out if she has any Gifts. One day, she and her best friend Princess Katiana, are out
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We’ve got owl plates that apparently turn into owls, a whole British Romeo and Juliet-ish across classes love story in a cottage in Wales on summer break, and the ancient Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd. I suspect I would have gotten a lot more out of this story when I was in the midst of my
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It’s the part of the Kate Daniels story the whole series has been leading up to – Kate finally meets her father, Roland. Aka Nimrod – the biblical tower builder, all powerful being who built a magical civilization so advanced and powerful it triggered a tech revolt, and magic went into retreat for several thousand
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Penric’s back in the capital city visiting friends when he’s called to help investigate murder. The victim is another temple divine, who like him, carries a demon. However, in this case, she’s not had the demon long, and no one can think why she would have anyone that would want to kill her. And, there’s
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