Hello, it's been quiet! Kings Rising was released on the second, so I've been reading it after work instead of posting or sewing. It was wonderful, although it would have been better with an epilogue. I may reread the whole trilogy ( Read more... )

I can't remember if the books addressed it, but what was Panem going to do for coal after burning down District 12? If a district is so unnecessary that you can get rid of it, why have it in the first place?

( Mockingjay Matinee )

The one thing that was able to get me to sew in the sleeves on my black silk: treadle! In one sense it was terribly hard, as the machine is set into the table, but in another sense it was easier, as I could make it go much slower. Because I'm using black thread I got to wind another bobbin, WHAT FUN. I'm going to try to get the front edges finished ( Read more... )

I put Thinking Woman's Guide aside for a bit because I hit one of my hot-button issues - "riding sidesaddle is objectively terrible" - and picked up another book I got out of the library at the same time, The Goblin Emperor. Oohhhhh. It's soooooo good. I'm barely into it but I love it. It's about this half-elf/half-goblin who's like the fifth son ( Read more... )

I started reading The Thinking Woman's Guide to Magic because it has a very attractive cover, and when I flipped through the beginning I could tell it was starting out fairly quickly with the main character enchanted by fairies, with the whole "they're creepy and fake but hide it under glamour" trope, which was kind of a brave choice - having her ( Read more... )

After months of putting it to one side, I finally finished The Custom of the Country. I'm not totally sure when it's set - if it was meant to end contemporaneously to publication or start there or what - but it would make a smashing adaptation, I think, if it were set ( Read more... )

This week went by very fast. What's been going on in it ( Read more... )

Watched most of the second season of the Paradise yesterday afternoon and evening. Still the date issues, but wow the general quality of the costuming is so much better. Someone gave the budget a shot in the arm ( Read more... )

Worked at 6 this morning - wasn't too bad, I only did one stupid thing and the AM didn't get fussed about it. Because I was only there for four hours there wasn't a high expectation of productivity. I did all the special order cakes for the day, and there were quite a few. So that was nice.

Started reading Scoop, which is turning out as bad as ( Read more... )

Getting responses to my Outlander posts! Fun ( Read more... )