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Winter’s Gifts, by Ben Aaronovich. Subterranean Press, 2023
I was delighted to find the library had the latest (I think- at least until November) installment in Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, because I love this fictional world and the fictional detectiv that inhabit it. I was a little disappointed to find that these rivers were not ( Read more... ) -
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Long time no post. I read all your posts, but just haven’t had it in me to talk about my life, other than in comments. No idea why. No idea why I can’t seem to do a book review, although I *must* work on that today or at any rate soon. Nothing horribly bad has happened, but nothing extraordinary has happened, either.
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Finally managed to get appointments for vaccines. The doctor told us to wait until November to get them, so they’d still be active come spring, and I’m regretting that. I ended up calling all over town to try and find any. Finally, on the last try, I hit pay dirt. Safeway actually had all three- Covid, flu, RSV. Which NO ONE in town had. The only ( Read more... ) -
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Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts, by Evan Ross Katz. Hachette Books, 2022
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What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher. A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022
When Alex Easton, former soldier, arrives at her dear friends the Ushers’ home, she is rather surprised by what she finds. The mansion is pretty much in ruins, the lake right out front is dank and full of… something… , there are some really weird hares in the brush, and it ( Read more... ) -
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Well, it’s been a little more than two weeks, and, while the rib is better, it’s still bothering me. I did finally get into the car and go to hospice a couple of days ago. There was SO much to do. I only got half way done with it before my rib (and back) said to quit. I’ll have to hope that next week there won’t be so many newly bereaved, so I can ( Read more... ) -
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The Elegant Woman: For the Woman Who Wants to Increase Her Elegance and Beauty, by Eunice Leong. 2013
I picked this book off the library shelf, while looking for something else, intrigued by the title. Elegance? In today’s day and age? And how did this woman become an expert in this subject?
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In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature’s Scents, by Dominique Roques. Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2021
Roques’s job was (is?) sourcing natural fragrance materials for high end perfume houses. He does this not just by sitting at a desk, but by going to the sites where the materials are gathered- to Provence for the very ( Read more... ) -
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Been working both outside and inside because the weather fluctuates between too wet, too hot, or just right for working outside. On the inside days, I started to reach and pull out my blazers & jackets from the back end of the one closet, only to discover that the cats (one small black one in particular, I’m sure) have been pulling the jackets down ( Read more... )
