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About Thistle

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

Sunday Coffee – Home Sweet Home

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Thistle

Hello everyone! Oh. Man. I LOVE being home! We are settling in pretty well. The 3.5-day trip went as well as can be expected, with only a few hiccups (more about the trip in general in a future post), and … Continue reading →

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The Living, by Matt de la Peña (audio)

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Thistle

The summer before his senior year in high school, Shy gets a job as a crew member on a luxury cruise ship. All seems right with the world, until 1) his nephew contracts a deadly new disease making its way … Continue reading →

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Top 2015 Books (So Far)

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Thistle

Hm. Difficult topic for me this week, because I’ve only read 34 books* so far in 2015, and ten would be a pretty huge chunk! I don’t want to cheat and pad my numbers by including rereads of favorites (like the … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – See Y’all on the Other Side!

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Thistle

<– Last coffee in Massachusetts! This was my favorite mug in my counselor’s office. If you can’t read it, one side says “Freudian Sips” and the other says “When you say one thing but you mean your mother.” Ha! So … Continue reading →

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Magonia, by Maria Dahvana Headley

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Thistle

Aza Ray is one of a kind. Literally. She’s the only person in the world with a disease so rare that it is named after her. She can barely breathe, drowning in air, and no one expects her to live … Continue reading →

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Top Five Top-Ten Posts

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Thistle

Top Ten Tuesday, as a book-meme, started five years ago. Today’s topic is in honor of that fifth anniversary, and asks us what are our favorites Top Ten Tuesday posts of the last five years. For my part, I have … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Seeking Comfort

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Thistle

Moving across the country without any outside help from family/friends = stressful. Last year, this was slightly easier. We stayed at my dad’s house while we packed the last of our old house into a storage shed. We had beds … Continue reading →

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Wildalone, by Krassi Zourkova (audio)

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Thistle

Thea leaves her parents and home in Bulgaria to attend Princeton. In a new world that is both foreign and exciting, she uncovers family secrets, crazy-wild-legends, brothers-of-love (*coughlustcough*), and a whole pile of creepy. Sooooo…I think this is my first … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books On My 2015 Summer TBR

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Thistle

Just like I said with my 2015 Spring TBR Possibilities List, I would rather not be too heavy-handed in my choices for summer. I never really know what I’ll read in advance, as my mood will change as the months pass. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – The Whirlwind Begins

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Thistle

Actually probably technically, the whirlwind began some time ago. However, it’s beginning in earnest this week. Tomorrow, we close on our new house. Two weeks after that, we begin our cross-country move. Yesterday, we gave away our couch. The apartment … Continue reading →

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