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About Thistle

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

A Playlist for Maldralith

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Thistle

Note: Originally posted on Boston Blooming. For a lot of writers, music and words are pretty closely entangled, and I’m no different. Each novel I write comes with an accompanying soundtrack of songs that have become associated with some portion … Continue reading →

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A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Thistle

Okay. I loved the first two books in this series. I read them both earlier in the year, and my plan was to spread the five (as of now) books out through 2014. I decided it was about time to … Continue reading →

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Dreams of Gods and Monsters, by Laini Taylor

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Thistle

Ever have one of those books that you really, really want to read and at the same time, you are really, really terrified to read, because what if it doesn’t live up to your hopes and expectations? That was Dreams … Continue reading →

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Humans of New York, by Brandon Stanton

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Thistle

Not too much to say about this one. I love the Humans of New York website (which I follow on Instagram and Facebook). I didn’t realize how young this project was (since late 2010). The new book that is out … Continue reading →

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Summer Rain – DONE!

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Thistle

Note: Originally posted on Boston Blooming. Back on the last day of April, I announced on Facebook that, four drafts and eight years to the day, I’d completed the final version of Phantom, the first novel I’d ever written. I was … Continue reading →

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Year of No Sugar, by Eve Schaub

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Thistle

Several years back, Eve Schaub, her husband, and her two daughters decided to spend a year not eating any added sugar. She blogged about the process, and eventually compiled this memoir about the results. Not sure where I first heard … Continue reading →

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Ruin and Rising, by Leigh Bardugo

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Thistle

Third in the Grisha series, after Shadow & Bone and Siege & Storm. This will be a hard one to write about. First, let me just say that Ruin & Rising was my number one most anticipated book of 2014. … Continue reading →

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Ninepins, by Rosy Thornton

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Thistle

Laura is a single mom of 12-year-old Beth, living out of the way in the fens, in a house dubbed Ninepins. Beth’s father is remarried and has three little boys, and Beth sees him every other weekend. Laura supplements her … Continue reading →

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The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud (audio)

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Thistle

Lucy is a ghost-hunter in alternate-world London. In this alternate world, ghosts of the dead frequently come back to haunt the living, and only children can see them (though adults can sense them to a certain degree). Ghost-hunting agencies then … Continue reading →

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Between Two Thorns, by Emma Newman

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Thistle

The plot of this story is a bit convoluted. There are three worlds: the fae world, where fae are trapped by Sorcerers, the real world, and the “in between” world, where some families live. I’m not sure if those families … Continue reading →

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