I finished a series! (Ok, fine, they ended up extending this series, so there’s more to read, but I finished a unit of published books, which is a big deal for me!) The book starts with the birth of Kate and Curran’s son Conlan, and jumps ahead to him being a very precocious toddler, which […]
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Figured I should do a last day of August garden post – here’s the back bed in all its still pretty droughty glory. A few highlights: The maypop is actually starting to resemble a vine! We’ll see how big this gets this year. I’ll put it up another size pot if I think it warrants
I ended up getting the Miles in Love omnibus even though I own Komarr on its own, just for the simplicity of getting Winterfair Gifts in the bargain. I loved A Civil Campaign. I adore Ekaterin, and Miles completely floundering about like an idiot when he finally finds the woman for him was adorable. I
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The Piccolo Pyrus cowl is done. It’ll definitely benefit from some blocking, so this isn’t the final post, but I can at least count the yarn towards my August stash busting totals.
Pattern: Colorful Half and Half Washcloths by Purl Soho Yarn: Knitpicks Lindy Chain in the Harbor, Silver and Mist colorways Needles: Size 4 circs Welcome to my stash busting extravaganza! I got rid of the Silver and Mist yarn entirely, and only have a small amount of Harbor left. I enjoyed this pattern – it’s
This is a fun premise – some people have the ability to reach into books and pull thing out from them. They have to be popular books – the amount of reading and energy people are putting into them helps the magic. Johannes Gutenberg (yes, that Gutenberg) has joined them all into an organization to
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Cleric Chih and their bird Amazing Brilliant are back, traveling to collect stories. In this tale, they’ve ventured into the Riverlands, where they encounter two young women travelling, and decide to join forces. They’re ambushed, which is when Chih discovers that one of the young women is a martial arts master. It’s at this point
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I loved this story. It’s back in the jazz age, so we get a young Thomas Nightingale, which was a lot of fun. But the real hero of this story is the narrator – Augustus Berrycloth-Young. He’s a graduate of the same school as Nightingale, but was only ever going to be a middling magician.
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In further stash reduction efforts, this is the Piccolo Pyrus cowl, from Skeinwalker knits. I’m using up my Quince and Co Phoebe in the Mars colorway.
I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I did a garden update. Things are trucking along in that August way – most things are finally blooming. I’ve had to resort of the above “mulch” for my maypop seedling. Some little shit (probably a squirrel) kept digging at it. The final straw was when I
