I was so busy finishing up some crafts, helping my kids prep for Halloween, and the usual ridiculous drudgery I never got a chance to show o...

Thornyhold  by Mary Stewart: Just about the gentlest possible story you could imagine about witches in a small English village. As with most...

This was a fun little project, although not quite done. The cross stitch design is Oddpothecary by Noctiflora Designs, from the Just Cross S...

  Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher: The third in T. Kingfisher's Saints of Steel series. I am loving the world she has created: the ...

A colleague at work has one of those gemstone initial necklaces that are so popular. I have a strand of tiny gemstone rondelles and assor...

 Mills's The Watermark is billed as a "quirky, literary love story" but it's a lot weirder and less romantic than that wo...

Sjón's post-modern novel is comprised of three novels he wrote over twenty years:   Thine Eyes Did See My Substance   ( a love story but...