Having recently read a book about the American view of wilderness, it was very interesting to get a contemporary British view – and it very much makes me appreciate what I have in my fairly well forested state. This is an interesting book – if you’re looking for scientific details of Britain’s forest, you won’t […]
Oak and Ash and Thorn – Peter Fiennes Read More »
So I went on a bit of binge over the past weekend, into the past few weeknights. (It was hot and humid, and doing things outside just didn’t seem fun.) So I read the first two books in a day each, and the last one over a couple nights. BF is suspicious I don’t actually
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Continuing this year’s apparent comfort reading theme, when I saw this book come up on the Prime Firsts list, I grabbed it. It was as pure escapist fun as the description implied. Mia is a famous British actress who’s just completed a film with her husband. Just in time for the publicity junket, she finds
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Harvesting continues. It’s pretty much every other day now, so I’m not posting it real time. The above are from 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 9/10, 9/12, 9/14 and 9/17. The acorn squash on the 12th was a “No, seriously I have so many I couldn’t possible figure out what to do with them
Continuing my rereading theme, here’s the prequel to The Blue Sword. Aerin is the only child of the king, by his second wife, who some considered to be a witch, so there are whispers about her. She won’t inherit the throne – that goes to her cousin Tor. Consequently, she’s not really sure what to
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More harvest shots: 8/28, 8/30, 8/31 and 9/4. There’s a good portion of all nightshades, all the time, but I did also take out the first batch of collards to thin out the patch a bit before I left the rest get bigger.
So post-apocalyptic fiction is really hot right now. I have quite a bit of it in my to read pile. And I’m really not in the mood for it. Consequently, I’ve been rereading a bunch of books this year in a happier vein. Like fairy tales. This is the lead up to say that I
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I get a couple different book newsletters for cheap or free ebook deals. I’ve learned to be really leery of the free ones. So I was really pleasantly surprised by this book. It’s definitely more in the YA realm, so has a fair amount of teenage angst, but not anymore than any typical book in
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I’m getting things from the garden pretty much every other day now. (This should feature a third pictures from Friday that involved kale and tomatoes, but was just too dark to salvage.)
