- Two Twisted Crowns – Rachel Gillig
The first book in this duology ends in a major cliffhanger, where it appears that Elspeth is dead – taken over by the Nightmare. In this story, we quickly find out that she is not gone, and we also learn far more about the Nightmare, who is actually the Shepherd King. Rayvn Yew and his… Read more: Two Twisted Crowns – Rachel Gillig - Royal Tea Service – Casey Blair
Miyara may have left the royal family behind, but they’re not done with her. All of her royal sisters show up in town, and it’ll be up to all of them to work together to save the world. This was a very satisfying end to the trilogy. I realized one of the things I really… Read more: Royal Tea Service – Casey Blair - Garden Notes
I’ve very behind with posting – weekends have been full of the kind of life stuff I don’t tend to document here. But the garden has marched on. We had a killing frost overnight on the 17th – the results are above. We’d actually had a lighter frost a few days before that that everything… Read more: Garden Notes - Aurora Borealis
Checked off a bucket list item this week. It’s been a very active solar flare year, and there was a flare on Thursday that managed to cut through the light pollution so that we could actually see the aurora from our back deck. (These shots both use the nighttime feature on my pixel’s camera, but… Read more: Aurora Borealis - Tongue Eater – John Bierce
If I’m being brutally honest – this book is a filler story. But it’s a filler story between some fairly important action in the last book (in which one mentor of the main characters betrays the school they attend, and therefore causes the death/probable death of two other mentors), and the last book in the… Read more: Tongue Eater – John Bierce
Books Read 2024
- City of Storms – Kat Ross
- The Demi-Wolf and the Hunter – Amberley Martin
- Indexing: Reflections – Seanan McGuire
- Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast – Carol Gracie
- The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry – C. M. Waggoner
- The Buttercross Dragon – Maria Grace
- Bookshops and Bonedust – Travis Baldree
- Shenanigans – ed. Mercedes Lackey
- Imprudence – Gail Carriger
- The Tough Guide to Fantasyland – Diana Wynne Jones
- Demon Daughter – Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Magician’s Daughter – H. G. Parry
- The Spare Man – Mary Robinette Kowal
- Hell Bent – Leigh Bardugo
- Snowspelled – Stephanie Burgis
- Winter’s Gifts – Ben Aaronovitch
- Spells and Shelves – Elle Adams
- A Close and Common Orbit – Becky Chambers
- Beauty and the Werewolf – Mercedes Lackey
- Bride of the Rat God – Barbara Hambly
- The Frost Fair Affair – Tansy Rayner Roberts
- Spellcracker’s Honeymoon – Tansy Rayner Roberts
- Nona the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
- Tea Set and Match – Casey Blair
- The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl – Theodora Goss
- Flamebringer – Elle Katharine White
- The Warden – Daniel M. Ford
- The Compleat Traveller in Black – John Brunner
- Beyond the Tower – JacQueline Vaughn Roe
- Blood and Ash – Deborah Wilde
- Lives of the Trees – Diana Wells
- The Bennet Women – Eden Appiah-Kube
- Penric and the Bandit – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Time’s Convert – Deborah Harkness
- Mollification for a Giant – Amberley Martin
- Point of Honour – Madeleine E. Robins
- Elder Race – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Forest of Scarlet – Tara Grayce
- The Bone Spindle – Leslie Vedder
- Sabriel – Garth Nix
- The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley
- Lost in the Moment and Found – Seanan McGuire
- Names for the Sea – Sarah Moss
- One Dark Window – Rachel Gillig
- Wormwood Abbey – Christina Baehr
- Witch King – Martha Wells
- A Rake of His Own – AJ Lancaster
- Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden – Robin Whiteman
- Tongue Eater – John Bierce
- Bound – Mark Lawrence
- Elf King – Tara Grayce
- Royal Tea Service – Casey Blair
- Two Twisted Crowns – Rachel Gillig
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