2021 was a year of trying new things and learning new skills. I learned canning via Paige at Farmhouse Vernacular I took her online course How to Can Food for Beginners. It was fun and now I have a new skill. So far I’ve put up the stock I made from our Thanksgiving turkey and …
I do love a Christmas Romance, you’ll find me seeking them out and compiling a TBR queue round about Halloween. Here are this year’s recommendations! And for those of whom the X-mas theme is not their jam I’ve included a few of my favorite books set during winter. This one was cute I do love …
I picked this up on the advice of SBTB and am really enjoying it! It’s a three book series and I’ve just finished the first! Fun yet creepy and with really great world building and monsters galore, and I loved it! Oh! And It’s on sale for 4.99, not sure how long that’s going to …
When I was creating the world of Dragon’s Pawn I looked to the excellent artists of DeviantArt for inspiration and found Alex Pascenko. His illustrations were exactly what I’d been envisioning for the members of MechUnit 503 assigned to patrol the border at Elko checkpoint. To celebrate the second anniversary of Dragon’s Pawn here is …
Happy October! The above picture is from Pixbay Browned Butter Oatmeal & Apple cookies Joy always comes up the the best seasonal treats! Have you heard the new Chillhop Music Fall album? This photographer spent seven years capturing portraits of redheads from around the world. How to make rolled wax candles with bonus calming ASMR …
Hello! Lately I’ve been dabbling in witchcraft. KInd of. My reading picks have been decidedly witchy. Is there a better time than October/Halloween to indulge in stories about badass witches? I read the first of The Vine Witch series last year and this year I’m having fun reading the second and third of the trilogy. …
I love finding a series that has a long backlist! Not that I didn’t zoom through all nine in record time and now sit twiddling my thumbs impatiently until the next book comes out next year. (sigh) Anyway if you love a good mystery with a smattering of romance set in the 1830’s this is …
This spring I’ve finally got around to reading all the books in my TBR (To Be Read) queue and there have been some really great ones. Far too many to list here but a handful stood out and I continue to think about them. Bitterburn was a great rethink of the Beauty and the Beast …
Can we, just for a moment, admire how gorgeous this cover is?! The story is just as amazing! Inspired by the Persian epic Shahnameh from the early eleventh century, the setting is lush and vivid. It’s an empowering story about learning to love the things about oneself that are different. While reading the story I …
About the third chapter in I remember stating aloud “This is a very weird story!” That’s saying a lot from someone who writes the type of stuff that I do, but it’s true. At first, you don’t know what going on, but it’s fascinating! And when you do figure out what’s going on you’re hooked! …
Kathleen Rear 