The garden is puttering along. I’ve had to pull out all but one of the zucchini, and the cucumber as well. But the flowers are doing nicely – the fourth dahlia is set to bloom. That leaves two that haven’t set buds yet, and the new one from this year (the pot on the bottom […]
This is a bit of a fish out of water tale, of the year the author spend teaching in Iceland, just after their banking crash in the late 00’s. The author is from England, so it was a little funny to see some of the things she found alien about life there that I probably
Names for the Sea – Sarah Moss Read More »
This one hits a little differently than the prior Wayward Children books. Antsy has lot a lost in her life, starting with the loss of her father when she was five. Her mother meets someone new, and that causes another kind of loss. She knows that he is no good, but no one
Lost in the Moment and Found – Seanan McGuire Read More »
It occurs to me I haven’t been posting much about the garden. It’s been chugging along, mostly. Because of the heat, I actually haven’t been faced with a glut of zucchini. About half the dahlias are now blooming, which is ahead of schedule from last year, but you can tell from the foliage that they
This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the sleeper is a prince in need of rescue, and the rescuer is a noblewoman turned treasure hunter who also happens to be under a curse. She’s fallen in with another princess turned exile (and expert axe welder) who’s totally falling in love with a Red Riding
The Bone Spindle – Leslie Vedder Read More »
I have two sweaters going right now. I really need to decide what to do with them. I suspect the colorwork sweater may not survive – I’m not sure I can do the sleeves without making them too tight. But I feel like I also owe it to myself to try. The other is more
Look! It’s starting to look like a thing! Finished chart 2 of my crazy making Boreas full cover cross stitch. (Look up Waterhouse’s Boreas if you want to see how small a section of the upper corner of the painting this is.) The second chart went much faster than the first, once I got the
What I really love about this author and this series is the range of stories she manages to work into this world. You never really know what you’re going to get in each book. This is a very quiet book – it starts with Miles making an incredibly stupid (and uncharacteristic) mistake – he
Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies. You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination
Elder Race – Adrian Tchaikovsky Read More »
I really liked the premise of this book – set in Regency times (in a slightly alternate world where the Prince of Wales is not yet regent, and married differently than in our own timeline), Sarah Tolerance is a fallen woman. She was ruined by her family’s fencing master, and had a lovely life with
Point of Honour – Madeleine E. Robins Read More »
