Finished reading: The Golden Enclaves: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 3) by Naomi Novik 📚 Whole series. Some will think of that other magical school series… but really, read for its system of magic, which makes you think about how we organize around scarcity, in-groups, and a desire to hide the systemic implications of our comfortable lives on the suffering of others. Really.
Getting ready…
Six months. Two teeth. One Grace.
Finished reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin 📚 Was the metaphor heavy? Yes. Was it great? Yes. Question I had: does everyone resonate most with the character of the brorough they lived in longest?
This is Grace. She’s neat.
Finished reading: The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker 📚 Loved this more than the first book, somehow.
Every year, we’re not entirely sure that spring will come. And then it does.
Today’s St. John’s Bible find: this bumblebee hoisting a skipped verse into place.
Harvest time.
Now regretting that joke that the local snakes are well fed.
These seem fine. Just the humans wilting this week.
Finished reading: Native by Kaitlin B. Curtice 📚
Slightly cooler morning with a new pen and ink… getting ready for the day. 🖋
Finished reading: The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3) by N. K. Jemisin 📚I’m in a sad place about parenting and loss, but everything about this was so good.
Garden friend watching over the beds.
