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About Thistle

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

Sunday Coffee – Bullet Journal (Part 2)

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Thistle

By now, just about everyone has heard of bullet journaling. People either love it or hate it, and everyone who uses it seems to have a different way of doing so. I began my first bullet journal in late August … Continue reading →

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The Selection: Stories, by Kiera Cass

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Thistle

Not much to say about this collection. The book consisted of two stories – “The Prince” and “The Guard” – which went through a few events of the original Selection trilogy from the point of view of other characters. Namely, … Continue reading →

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The Accidental Alchemist, by Gigi Pandian (audio)

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Thistle

A three-hundred-year-old alchemist, a teen hoodlum, and a French gourmet chef gargoyle take up residence in an abandoned haunted house in Portland… Sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? That’s essentially the opening premise to this book, however, followed … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee: Library

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Thistle

I’m still not here very much right now. Settling in is going rough, trying to coordinate about a thousand different things. Jason is back in TX getting our house on the market, so I’m a single mom (kinda) this week … Continue reading →

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Rejection Proof, by Jia Jiang (audio)

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Thistle

Subtitled: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime Also subtitled: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible, One Rejection at a Time Okay. I think the premise of Rejection Proof is obvious by the … Continue reading →

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Autumn Shawl

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Thistle

One of the first things I noticed when we arrived in Wisconsin is how quickly it gets chilly in the evenings. I’m used to wearing lots of tank tops and shorts, and our moving truck wasn’t set to arrive (with … Continue reading →

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An Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir (audio)

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Thistle

Laia is forced into a dangerous mission after the ruling class kills most of her family and takes her brother captive. She’s sent to spy on the leader of a military school in exchange for the rebels rescuing her brother. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – August Miscellanous

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Thistle

Because I was pretty much absent this past month, I thought I’d use my first Sunday Coffee in awhile to bullet up a miscellaneous post of books and life. Here’s how my month went: Moving: This consumed most of the … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. XI

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Thistle

I say it every year, and I’ll say it again: autumn is my favorite time of year, and Readers Imbibing Peril is my favorite reading event of the year. My family just barely arrived in Wisconsin two days ago, and … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Changes

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Thistle

So remember last week, when I said we’d decided to move across the country? We had a plan worked out. The boys would go up at the end of this month, and Jason and I would follow in October once … Continue reading →

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