Monthly Archives: April 2012

Another Lady Knight-to-be

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

As part of my personal quest to re-read all of Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series (18 books!), I re-read her Protector of the Small quartet during March…then took forever to get to this review! The heroine of Pierce’s third Tortall quartet … Continue reading →

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Saturday Snapshot: Late-blooming Orchid

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

I’ve been waiting a year and a half for my orchid to bloom–and it finally did!  It had lovely flowers when I first got it, and I was told that it would probably bloom again in a year.  Well, it … Continue reading →

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Favorites Friday: Discworld

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett really is a world unto itself.  It’s a sprawling, chaotic hilarious tumult of a series, with forty-odd more and less connected books.  The biggest problem is where to begin, and that did put me … Continue reading →

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Quotable J.V. Hart

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

“For every life situation there is a fitting quote from the hand of Shakespeare.” – J.V. Hart A few days late for Shakespeare’s birthday on April 23rd.  But really, the Bard is worth celebrating every day…

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A Former Cinderella Finds a Job

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey is a great two-challenges-for-one-book, fitting neatly into the Once Upon a Time challenge, and also my Finishing the Series challenge.  It’s actually the first book in Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms series, but somehow I contrived … Continue reading →

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