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About Thistle

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

The Retreat, by Mark Edwards

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Thistle

Lucas is off to a writers’ retreat in Wales, very near where he spent the first few years of his life. He’s a horror writer hoping for inspiration, but doesn’t expect the house of his retreat to be embroiled in … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – Overtraining

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Thistle

Overtraining is one of my biggest downfalls. At least once a year, I find myself working out too long, or too often, and/or too intensely. My weight loss stalls and sometimes starts to reverse, and I feel awful. Because I’m … Continue reading →

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Gut Reactions, by Simon Quellen Field (audio)

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Thistle

Subtitled: The Science of Weight Gain or Loss Two notes before I begin. First, this is not a diet book or a self-help book. This is a book (primarily) about body science, dealing with the complexities and intricacies that make … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Football

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Thistle

Though my dad’s side of the family were huge football people, I was never a fan of football growing up. Neither was Jason. When our kids were young, the only football they ever really saw was when we had an … Continue reading →

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January 2019 in Review

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Thistle

All right. I said I was planning to change my monthly wrap-up to a quarterly format, but I’ve changed my mind. Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself looking back at last year’s monthly posts multiple times when searching … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – Garmin Vivosport Part 2

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Thistle

I’ve now had my Garmin Vivosport for two months. My review in December gave my initial thoughts and impressions on use, and now I’ve had two months of actual use to do a real review. While I still think the … Continue reading →

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The Vanishing Stair, by Maureen Johnson (audio)

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Thistle

This is the much-anticipated (by me) sequel to Truly Devious, and so I won’t say anything about the plot and give things away for the first book. This is a double mystery, after all! When I read Truly Devious last … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – November Sailing

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Thistle

I mentioned waaaaay back in my October wrap-up that I’d penciled a specific date into my calendar (Nov 23, 2019) and said I’d discuss why at some point. It’s been a few months, but plans have finalized and I’m ready … Continue reading →

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An Unwanted Guest, by Shari Lapena

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Thistle

A collection of guests are snowed in at a quaint luxury hotel in the Catskills. When one of them dies, it looks like an accident…but then another is quite obviously murdered. Terror ensues. I grabbed this one off my library’s … Continue reading →

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Love a la Mode, by Stephanie Kate Strohm

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Thistle

Henry and Rosie meet on a plane to Paris, where they’re both new students of a specialty culinary high school. They fall in love-at-first-sight, of course, as you’d expect, but you know things can’t be that easy. This was a … Continue reading →

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