This is a kid’s book (I read it in a about twenty minutes, so I wouldn’t even give it full YA status). And it’s surprisingly dark. This is the story of the Frog Prince, while he’s a frog. He meets up with a lady frog in the pond near the house of the hag that […]
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I have two khuri squash (one is hiding behind the one you can see here). And of course, they’re hanging in thin air where I’m going to have to support them as they get heavier. So much for trying to get a trellis. Everything else in the side garden is chugging along for the moment.
I’m thoroughly enjoying the series about Mags and Amily – I’m so glad Lackey opened up a new period in Valdemar to write about. This latest series is a number of years after the events of the last – with Mags and Amily having had three children, and Sedric and Lydia taking over as King
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I’ve run into a bit of an issue with the Immie Tee (pretty sure I found some errata), so I’m at a bit of a stop there, which is a shame, because I’m about 75 percent done. But, I don’t actually need it until M’s birthday in November, so there’s at least that. In the
I held onto this book longer than I really should have – I thought I was missing the book between the last one in this series I had read, and what I still had on hand, but I was wrong. So I could have read this at least a year ago. Oops. Temeraire and Laurence
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Eve has always been able to see ghosts. Her childhood was colored by their presence, but she’s grown into her power as a medium, and even gained some associates that help her with her work. But as women in the late 19th century, it’s hard to be taken seriously, especially when one is talking about
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Alina and Mal have escaped the Darkling’s invasion of the Little Palace, and know that they need to search for the final of the three amplifiers that will allow Alina full use of her power. They think that the firebird that has that amplifier can be found in the valley where they both were born,
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This book has the same madcap dash through time that the first book in the series had. Loch’s crew is fresh off saving the world when another crisis is thrown at them – this time it’s a stolen book, at the same time the neighboring Empire just might throw its undead army at the Republic.
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A good friend of mine recently took a week off and rented a cabin out in the woods entirely by herself. She realized she hadn’t been taking much time for herself, and decided to take the week to give her some time to do the things she wants to do more of and doesn’t have
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I don’t know what it was about this book, but I had the worst time getting into it. It’s taken me months to get through it. I did get through it, because it’s actually a really interesting story, but I would put it aside for weeks at a time before I could get into it
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