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Sometimes, I miss LJ...
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Anyone out there?
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Sometimes I really miss LiveJournal... -
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So for some reason I thought I'd try reading national book award finalists (fiction ( Read more... ) -
More books…well, just one...
The Forever Girl, by Alexander McCall Smith, whose contemplative, philosophical style with a bit of humor doesn't disappoint. I was nearly sick of his heroine by the end; she was very indecisive and kept refusing to DO anything about her undying love for a boy she's known all her life. But everything else is lovely. -
Still need a books & dogs icon...
So, there's been lots of reading and very little reviewing. LiveJournal just sort of gets forgotten! Oh, bother. LOL!
Uprooted, by Naomi Novik, should have been in the category of "I LOVE THIS BOOK." Instead, it's just "meh." It's well-written, because Novik is an excellent writer, but the story felt more like a first book than something written/ ( Read more... ) -
Progress on the woodland faerie
It's been a long time since I posted a progress pic, but here goes! I finally spent some time working on this the past week and took a progress pic tonight. Usually I take one each time I work on it, but I was only getting a few minutes of work in daily during lunch. So this is cumulative from the last week. I like being able to see progress! I ( Read more... ) -
Opinions please?
Hiya folks!!
I took a photo of my cardinals project in progress. I'm pretty much done with the cross stitching and am almost ready to back stitch.
Where I'm stuck is deciding whether I'm done with the snow. LOL! The instructions said to use 5 strands of floss and it was a giant PITA to do, so I used 3. I'm torn between leaving it as is, going back ( Read more... ) -
Book review: Deborah Harkness
Ok. I didn't want to pick up the book, because I didn't think I'd want to put it down.
I was right.
The Book of Life, by Deborah Harkness, is the third in a trilogy that started with A Discovery of Witches and continued with The School of Night.
I really want more, and that's one of the best things to say after finishing a book!
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Book review: The Magicians
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman, is ok. The writing is good, the story is well-developed, but the book as a whole is just ok. Why? Once again, I found myself reading a book and thinking “There are no redeeming characteristics to these people.” It was more than teenage angst. The book is somewhere between the Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter, ( Read more... )