Well, I think I can safely put this year’s books read into the record books – there’s no way I’m finishing another book on New Year’s Eve. I actually read 100 books this year. Partially, because this was the year of the comfort reread, and partially because this was the year I got really sick […]
It was not my most productive year ever – part of that is that I did finally complete a sweater that I actually like wearing, and I was knitting that in the height of summer, so I really didn’t get as much done in the summer as I might have in years past. It was
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Here’s another reread. This story is somewhat based on Celtic mythology, but draws in two young people from the “real” world. Westerly and Cally have both lost their parents, and in their grief are both drawn into another world where they met Lugan and Taranis – who both have extraordinary powers. They both know that
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Pattern: Constellate by Hunter HammersenYarn: Dun Roving Yarns Frolicking Feet in the Rock Creek colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs and DPNS This was a fun pattern – just challenging enough to keep things interesting, and it knits up to a nice, chunky fabric. We’ll see how it does against our current cold snap. The yarn’s
This story is set in a kingdom with such modern devices as cars and cellphones, but where magic is alive, and religion is still very much a force in the kingdom. Pierce is a young man who grew up in Cape Misbegotten – far from the capital of Severluna. He’s always known his mother was
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Here’s another hat (it’s currently -5 out, and has been like that for several days, and promises to be for several more – I have cold on the mind). The pattern is Oh Brother by Fran Carle, and I’m using the Berry Farm Heritage Alpaca I picked up at Garlic Fest this year.
Lord Maplethorpe is just about to reach his majority when his mother pays his older cousin, Max Ravenscar, a visit. It seems Maplethorpe has become completely enamored with a girl at one of the gaming houses, and means to marry her. Ravenscar is himself a noted gamesman, so quickly heads over to get a lay
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I can’t reread The Dark is Rising without also rereading The Grey King. The other books in the series I have to be more in the mood for, but The Grey King to me is totally linked to The Dark is Rising. It’s actually the first book I read in this series (back in the
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This book was an incredibly thoughtful gift from my manager for Christmas this year. She knew I loved wildflowers, but what she didn’t know is that Melissa Cullina, who wrote the forward for this book, is who I took a class with this summer. She told us about Furbish’s work during the course of the
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I seem to have unintentionally started a collection of older botanical illustration of New England flora. I suppose it was inevitable, as I decided to make all the wildflower pictures I was taking into more of a thing, and we do frequent a fair number of used bookstores, where I will generally look for subjects
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