Books Shipped Long Distance
24 Festive Tasks: Door 16 – St. Lucia’s Day, Task 4: The historic (3d century AD) St. Lucia was Italian; yet, like those of many other saints (including, e.g., St. Andrew and St. Nicholas), the most important celebrations of her holiday don’t occur in her place of origin but somewhere else in the world. List […]
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Candace Robb: A Gift of Sanctuary
24 Festive Tasks: Door 22 – New Year’s Eve / St. Sylvester’s Day, Book: Read a book about an ending or a new start, where things go BOOM, with fireworks on the cover, set in medieval times, about the papacy, or where miracles of any sort are performed. It’s unlikely that Candace Robb’s Owen […]
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BL-opoly: Dice Roll #19
Having finished Ann Leckie’s excellent Raven Tower, I have just about enough time to roll again before the day is out. And as always when I’m “just quickly going to do this”, there’s no such thing as a straightforward roll. So — here we go: My first roll sends me to square 14: The Patagonia […]
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