Candace Robb
Q1 / 2022 Reading Recap
Well, as it turned out 2022 began as 2021 had ended — all work and no play, albeit with the addition of a hospital detour to boot. (Nothing serious, just way more painful and, all told, protracted, than it had any right to be.) So I’m back to posting one summary post for the first […]
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Candace Robb: The Lady Chapel
Blurb: High summer, 1365-and York is glorious with pageantry for the Feast of Corpus Christi. But wool merchant Will Crounce, who acts in “The Last Judgement,” meets his maker all too soon, his throat slit in the shadow of the great cathedral. When Crounce’s severed hand is found in fellow-merchant Gilbert Ridley’s tavern lodging, the […]
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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 Archer […]
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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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