We have a frost warning for tonight, so I want ahead and pulled out anything that remotely resembled tender, including the above. My mother had a few extra sweet potato slips this Spring. I only had room for them in a pot, so I’m fairly impressed I even got this many. I’d definitely
Thursday Next is a literary detective (SO-27). In this alternate universe, the Crimean War is still going on (she’s a veteran), and some stories aren’t what we would expect them to be. (Jane Eyre goes to India with her cousin at the end of her book.) When Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit is stolen, Thursday gets
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This is a book about manufactured materials, framed around a picture of the author drinking tea on his patio in London, with a view of the Shard in the background. It’s a really great way to a frame a book – you get an incredible number of materials out of that picture, from concrete to
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The young widow Perle has donated the house where she had lived happily with her husband to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. She had no need of it – she was also the heiress to one of the foremost weaving families in Shrewsbury, and could live in her family home, away from
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This novella is set in the world of The Curse of Chalion, where there are five gods. The fifth god – the Bastard – rules over the demons, who can ride along (and sometimes overtake) people. If those people can control the demon, they’re considered sorcerers. Young Penric is on his way to his betrothal
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Mags and Amily are both settling into their new roles, and the King has decided to use their wedding as the kind of party where they can have a lot of diplomatic goings on behind the scenes. Mags and Amily don’t really care – so long as the people that are important to them show
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Mags is now officially a Herald, which means he can truly begin his work becoming a Herald-Spy. He’s got some ideas around that, which includes rescuing a troop of boys that have been coerced into being thieves and putting them to better use as his eyes and ears around Haven. Where things get a little
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My bigger eggplant is finally setting fruit, and it’s been warm enough I’ll hopefully be able to harvest them. The kale’s looking amazing. I pulled out a good chunk of the tomato plants today- they’re just looking ratty. I also pulled out the khuri squash. There had been one fruit set
It’s funny – the author notes in the acknowledgements that she wasn’t sure a book about counterfeiting was going to be that interesting, but I have not read a book that had me quite on the edge of my seat as this one did in a while. Beka Cooper’s no longer a trainee in the
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New month, new knitting. I get to do socks because my friend K requested a new pair. (I’m at peak sock myself – I’ll only allow myself to make more if they’re for someone else. Which is a bummer, because I love making them.) This is Cookie A’s Twisted Flower, in Tess’ Designer
