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About Thistle

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

Sunday Coffee – Disturbing Themes

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Thistle

For the last month, I’ve been skim-reading thrillers. Not reading them enough to review them here, but kinda speeding through them when my brain needs something fast and furious to swallow down. Frankly, I’ve been disturbed by a lot of … Continue reading →

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The Call, by Peadar O’Guilin (audio)

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Thistle

It’s been twenty-five years since the Sidhe began their revenge on the Irish. They were banished thousands of years ago, and now they plot to exterminate the population of the island. No one can get in or out of Ireland. … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – About a Body

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Thistle

In The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater, there’s a thematic opener throughout the book. “Depending on where you began the story, it was about ___.” I often feel that the story of my health and fitness journey is much the … Continue reading →

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Top Ten(ish) Autumn-themed Books

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Thistle

I struggled hard with this topic. I don’t know if it’s just me – maybe I don’t read the right kind of books – or if publishers just don’t take advantage of autumn-themed palettes, but I couldn’t find many books … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Serial

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Thistle

I have always struggled with reading in chunks. If I’m going to read through a whole book, I won’t take more than three weeks to do it.** Even the really long and/or tough ones, like Pale Fire or Don Quixote, … Continue reading →

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Words in Deep Blue, by Cath Crowley

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Thistle

After three years away, Rachel has lost touch with most of her friends from her home town. Those she didn’t drift away from, she cut from her life after her brother died. Grief has caused Rachel to withdraw, but she … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – Arrogant Doctors

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Thistle

I was planning to discuss the way I’ve been feeling about my body and my health/fitness journey lately today, but I had an experience Monday that got my blood boiling, and decided to put off my original plan til next … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Book Boyfriends/Girlfriends

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Thistle

So technically today’s topic wants us to talk about which characters we as readers have crushes on. I don’t have very many of those, though, and instead I have a particular soft spot toward the rare functional couple in fiction. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – New Goals

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Thistle

This year has been a weird one. I made goals for myself back in December, only to immediately have a bunch of them thwarted when an MRI revealed that I had a broken foot and thus I couldn’t really exercise … Continue reading →

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Now I Rise, by Kiersten White

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Thistle

After And I Darken, the paths taken by the three main characters have diverged. Lada (Vlad the Impaler) has gone back to Europe to try to claim the throne of Wallachia. Mehmed (sultan of the Ottoman Empire) plans to conquer … Continue reading →

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