Continuing the topic of influences, this week we’re looking at Record of Lodoss War.
Unlike the rest of the series we’ve looked at thus far, Record of Lodoss War is an anime series, not a book.
Lodoss War is deliciously cliché, with the headstrong but inexperienced leader of the… Read the rest...
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I really, really wanted Noodle to wear a collar. I think cats with belled collars are the cutest thing. So we got her an adorable pink collar (Pink since not everyone knows that tortoiseshell cats are almost always female) and put it on her.Sadly, Noodle did not share our sentiment,… Read the rest...
I love the idea of gardening, but gardens don’t love me. My mother, grandmother and great-grandmother’s gardens were always beautiful, but I think my sisters were the ones who inherited their green thumb. I certainly didn’t!Despite my shortcomings as a gardener, though, the hyacinths I planted when my husband and… Read the rest...
Continuing on the topic of influences, this week we’re looking at The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
If I had to say there was any one thing that made me want to write, it must be that I had access to these books. At an early age, I… Read the rest...
Because Noodle is a particularly naughty cat, we can’t trust her to stay out on her own at night. It’s not the jumping on desks or knocking things over that concerns me, really, but her penchant for chewing on wires. We’re technophiles, there’s wires everywhere. She’s good about not doing… Read the rest...
When I was a kid, I never cared for autumn. I didn’t like the colors or the weather, didn’t like the onset of winter. I still can’t say I like the onset of winter, but my feelings about the colors that come with fall have changed.Naturally, this Japanese maple presented… Read the rest...
Continuing to explore influences, this week we’re looking at The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
I started reading the series not because I discovered it myself, but because I found the first book in my older brother’s room. He was never very vocal about literary interests,… Read the rest...