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Monthly Recap: October and November

December 2, 2017 by Sana

Oh look, I failed at blogging regularly again. Totally not giving up, though.

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All of my fall favorite things together: sweet bread, Kate Daniels and cold weather walks

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Monthly Recap: July, August and September

October 11, 2017 by Sana

This tri-monthly recap is in lieu of missing out on posting the last three recaps which led me to breaking my 47-month streak of posting them every month since August 2013 sobs (I checked). Yet another reason to dislike summer.

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Nature and city lights

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Review: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

August 14, 2017 by Sana

KATBATN

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
adult fantasy retelling published by Del Rey on January 10th, 2017
first book in The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy

At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.

After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

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Monthly Recap: June

July 5, 2017 by Sana

Still hate hot weather, when is summer over again?

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Lots of good music and early morning hospital runs

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Monthly Recap: May

June 2, 2017 by Sana

Not a whole lot of reading but lots of hot weather days.

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BingoSBB
When even just three bingos are a surprise

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