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About Thistle

Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Thistle

From GoodReads: Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Sad News

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Thistle

Hey everyone – I have sad news about Jojo. While we love him very much, he is not going to fit into our family. Honestly, I wish we’d tried integrating him into the whole house before we went through the … Continue reading →

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Color-block Afghan (finally!)

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Thistle

It is done! After about 20 months of work, I’ve finally completed this gargantuan project that I admittedly almost quit multiple times. But I made it. It’s done. Yay! I could leave this post at that, but I won’t. This … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – Basics

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Thistle

Seven years ago, when I was on my first weight loss journey, I began with some very basic principles. My goal was to eat “healthy but reasonable,” a way I could eat for the rest of my life. I would … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books on my Spring TBR

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Thistle

I’ve said before that I don’t have a huge list of books coming out this year that I’m highly anticipating, and I’m not the kind of person to keep a mile-long TBR list. I do have a few that I … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – The Joys of Home Ownership

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Thistle

Back in mid-2014, when we were selling our house in preparation to move to Boston, I made a declaration that I never wanted to own a house again. The amount of work we’d done on that house in nine years … Continue reading →

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Wires and Nerve: Gone Rogue, by Marissa Meyer

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Thistle

This is the second (and I believe final) volume of this short graphic novel series that takes place after the Lunar Chronicles. Iko is the primary narrator, and she’s on earth fighting rogue wolf-soldiers who are intent on revenge against … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Laurence!

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Thistle

I know I just said that on Sunday, but I had to say it again. To my kind, gregarious, sporty, theatre-loving youngest son, happy 14th!

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Sunday Coffee – More Birthday!

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Thistle

I said it before and I’ll say it again – it’s birthday month in our house! Laurence’s birthday is coming up this Tuesday. He’ll be fourteen. The boy is taller than me now at 5’8 and nearing the end of … Continue reading →

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Killman Creek, by Rachel Caine (audio)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Thistle

To avoid spoiling the first book in this series (Stillhouse Lake, which I read last month), I’ll just say that in this book, the Proctor family is still on the run. Only now, Gwen has decided to go proactively hunting … Continue reading →

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