(Spoiler info ahead…) Yes, it’s finally happened – the storyline of Dragonfly in Amber has taken our main characters, Jaimie and Claire, back to Scotland. I’m so glad they are home, back at Jaimie’s land, the Fraser lands, on his family farm. They are settling back into farm-life, including harvesting their very first crop of […]
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I’m not back in Scotland, as the previous post mentioned. Not in the second of the Outlander novels, anyway. Spoiler! (for anyone who hasn’t read the second book, Dragonfly in Amber, but plans to) I am actually in France. Our two main characters, Jaimie and Claire are in France, planning/hoping to stop Bonny Prince Charlie […]
An agonizingly wonderful and heart-wrenching one, more like. I’ve emerged, not yet a half-hour ago, from finishing “reading”, listening to the Outlander novel that I mentioned two blog posts ago. I really buckled down with both the listening of the story and the knitting of the orange sock (see previous post). Well, I couldn’t help […]
Alright, I admit it, I am completely entranced with the novel Outlander! I bought it from Audible.com a few weeks ago, and can’t seem to stop listening to it in my spare time. In fact, I’ve been creating spare time just to listen. Ooh, and it’s great knitting audio! So just what is this Outlander […]
(I started this post back in mid-June, but didn’t complete it, as I was very busy. I am finishing/posting it now) Thankfully! It’s over. The reading of The Turn of the Screw, that is. Don’t get me wrong – it’s a very interesting and challenging story, but man! it’s a difficult read/listen. Henry James, a […]
In the realm of another “creepy story” in the sun, now that I’ve finished listening to Sleepy Hollow, we are moving, in episode 30, to Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. It’s another ghost story. I am warned. Yet, so hard to take seriously on a glorious day like today. Hm. In the Gaia’s […]
Just a quick note before I head to bed – my Green Gables top is going really smoothly, and it looks like I’ll make my deadline of next Friday, for the fashion show where I have to wear it. Yay! I’m at the waist and it’s moving faster now. Fingers crossed! A side note: I’ve […]
This weekend I’m waist-deep in the listening of episode after episode of the podcast “CraftLit“. We finished Pride & Prejudice around episode 21, which I was both a little saddened by, but also relieved. For one, I have listened to and read Pride & Prejudice many times, and by the time Lydia was running off […]
Green Gables means two things to me these days – the obvious and much loved home of the fictional Canadian character Anne Shirley, and the name of a knitting pattern that I am currently working on. The latter is my sole knitting focus now, as my purple Estelle cardigan is balls of yarn sulking in […]
Hawthorne Cottage 