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About Thistle

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

Dreadful Company, by Vivian Shaw (audio)

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Thistle

This second Greta Helsing novel, as I predicted, is an entirely separate plot from Strange Practice. The characters are (mostly) the same, with a few new people introduced. In this volume, Greta is in France at a conference when a … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Updates

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Thistle

Oy. This week has been a roller coaster. I’m not really back to the blog yet, but I needed a place to update everything that has happened, so here goes (warning – long): 9/1: Sewer pipe backed up, but we … Continue reading →

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Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Thistle

Sancia is a thief-by-necessity in a world where class difference is sharply divided. She avoids those who have power, prestige, and wealth, but on a dangerous job which should pay a huge sum of money, she gets tangled up with … Continue reading →

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August in Review

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Thistle

August was a hard month for me. I was just so sick of the lingering inability to get anything done. This is the third summer in a row when my house has been torn apart and under construction. Summer is … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – The house is done!!!

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Thistle

As I mentioned last Sunday, the downstairs portion of the house finished about a week ago. The bathrooms gave us a lot of trouble (more below), but now, hallelujah, the house is DONE!!!** Kitchen: Ignore the open space by the … Continue reading →

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RIP XIII

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Thistle

As always at this time of year, I’m so excited for the Readers Imbibing Peril challenge to start! Of course, as per usual, I’ve already finished my first RIP read, before the challenge even begins – Foundryside by Robert Jackson … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – Habits

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Thistle

I don’t believe in that old adage that says it takes four weeks to form a habit. It takes much, much longer than four weeks to make a permanent habit. Years. Over my long weight loss journey, especially from 2011 … Continue reading →

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Bright We Burn, by Kiersten White

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Thistle

As this is the third book in a series, I won’t say too much about the story. This is the continuation of a story based on a fiction version of the man later known as Vlad the Impaler, or alternatively, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Back to School!

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Thistle

This photo doesn’t begin to show just how happy I am for school to start again and my routine to go back to normal!!!!!!!! (Also, never mind my obvious fatigue. Insomnia sucks.) I wish I could say that I’m also … Continue reading →

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Outfits I Can’t Wait to Wear

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Thistle

While a big chunk of the country is already turning toward fall, we stay smack in the 100s here in south Texas. Around this time of year, my longing for cooler weather becomes acute. I want to drink coffee on … Continue reading →

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