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About Thistle

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

Sunday Coffee – A Balance of Voice and Persona

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Thistle

When I started blogging about books over eight years ago, I was a very different reader than I am today. I had a very limited set of books I enjoyed. I always finished books that I started, no matter how … Continue reading →

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Scattered Hellos

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Thistle

Hello lovely people! I’ve had tons and tons going on over the last few weeks, and while I’ve talked in brief about some things (boys out of school, new haircut, stupid termite issues), I thought I’d do a bullet list … Continue reading →

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The Sleeping Prince, by Melinda Salisbury (audio)

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Thistle

In this follow-up to The Sin Eater’s Daughter, a fairy tale has come to life. The Sleeping Prince is awake, and is taking multiple kingdoms for his throne after five hundred years asleep. He’s brutal, and the world is in … Continue reading →

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Something New, by Lucy Knisley

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Thistle

Subtitled: Tales From a Makeshift Bride As evidenced by the title and cover of this graphic novel, Lucy Knisley takes us through the year of her wedding planning and eventual ceremony. And just as with other Knisley books, I was … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading Project

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Thistle

It’s that time of year. The boys just finished with school, and all the days of swimming, vacations, camps, and heat have begun. For me, summer = projects. I need projects in order to stay sane while my stay-at-home-mom job … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Brain Candy

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Thistle

Let me be honest: This was not a good month for me. This wasn’t really because Stuff Happened (though of course there was stuff…kidney stone, ankle problems, sweltering heat and humidity, a shooting near my son’s high school, the discovery of … Continue reading →

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The Sin Eater’s Daughter, by Melinda Salisbury (audio)

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Thistle

Twylla is deadly. As the embodied daughter of the gods, her skin is poisonous to anyone she touches, save the royal family, who are protected by the gods. Though Twylla hates her role and fate, she accepts it, until a … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday #30: Awake

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Thistle

June 1st, 1999. I’d spent a hard semester at college while my relationship with a former long-time boyfriend dissolved, and I’d decided to go to France on a six-week abroad program that summer. I’d been in France roughly a week … Continue reading →

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Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Thistle

Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. From this beginning, the story of a mixed-race family in the 70s unfolds, spinning outwards as the discovery of the favored child’s death affects everyone. This will be a very difficult … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Something New

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Thistle

It’s been about a month or so since I finished my last manuscript, Maldralith, and I think it’s time to settle on a new project for the summer. I have a few possibilities picked out. Three are a little more … Continue reading →

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