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Reading

Recently I have been reading on ebook The invisible library by Geneviewe Cogman (wich is the steampunkiest name ever) Ia quite like this book. I am halfway through in a very short time and it goes down smooth.

The book is about Irene a librarian whose job it is to go into alternative worlds and gather dangerous book on the occult and magic. She gets a new underling name Kai and things get very interesting and dangerous.

It´s book nr. 1 of 8 and defenetly will get the other ones on my e reader.

The aeronuts windlass by Jim Butcher is a book totally up my alley. Airship battles and magic. My favorite character is Folly a eatherialist who is very interesting. Book number 1.5 in this series called Cinder spires is next on my reading list. I´ve read some of the Dresden files books by Jim Butcher but this series is totally diffirent.

A wizards guide to defensive baking (what a great title) by T. Kingfisher.  Like most T. Kingfisher novels I loved this one. It´s about a baker apprentice who finds a body in the bakery and is blamed for the crime. She is a lesser witch who can control dough. I don´t want to spoil anything so I will stop here. I think this might have been my favortie T. Kingfisher book yet.

Miss Fisher murder mysteries by Kerry Greenwood

Books 1-5.

I love the Miss fisher murder mysteries tv series with Essie Davis and Nathan Page and the books are just as good but totally diffirent somehow.

Set in Australia in the 1920s, a sassy flapper lady solves crime. I do love a good murder mysteries but only if they are set to happen about 80 years ago. I don´t really like the modern stuff. Same goes for murder podcasts. If it happened in the victorian era to the 50s I like it.

Maybe if it happened longer ago you can distance yourself from it more.

I look forward to reading more about Miss Fisher (she´s very intriguing) and there are 23 books in the series so I´ll be having a lot of fun

 

These are just few of the books I´ve been reading (both on ebooks and audiobooks.

Quietness

So in the end of january I deleted facebook and instagram. I had wanted to do this for a year or so, I felt that I´ve become to addicted to it and it was controlling my life.

When I heard that meta was going to end their fact checking program and people could just write whatever hateful bullshit they wanted it was the kick in the ass I needed to delete everything from meta.

The first week without meta was very strange, so quiet and a bit lonely. I have got a lot of time back wich I have been spending crafting and reading. I have been reading more ebooks, I usually read mostly audiobooks.

I still use tumblr, you can find me as shadowy nerd witch (I love that moniker :)

I find tumblr totally diffirent than meta. It´s less addicting. The only bad thing is that nobody I know is on there.

Cozy sunday

 Two weeks ago or so I tried making a engish tea loaf for the first time.   You have to soak raisins in strong tea overnight.  I like both tea and raisins so I decided to try it.  The recipe had a little too much liquid so I´ll use less next time I try it.  It was good but way too wet.  I had it with some ceylon tea, watched the sunday youtube videos (always a lot of videos on sundays) and did some steampunk jigsaw puzzles.  A very nice sunday.

Reading, listening and watching

Reading:

Legends and Lattes, Bookstores and bonedust by Travis Baldree. I really liked these two. I do love me some fantasy and these books were quite good. I liked all the characters. Somehow you don´t expect a book about an orc, opening up a cafe. Especially when everybody is writing about faries these days.

A court of silver flames by Sarah J. Maas. Speaking of fairies I finished the court of thorns and roses book series. A court of silver flames is the last book and previously I had given up on it.

I like smut as much as every other lady but that book was just too much smut. The book would have been much better without it, it didn´t add anything, it was just annoying. I did like the first 3 books of the series but I feel the author really shot herself in the foot with the last one.

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear.

So I saw one of the people I fallow on Instagram talking about the book and I got exited.

Maisie Dobbs works as a private eye in London in the 20s. She start looking into a resort for former soldiers from ww1 were everything isn´t as it seems. This book reminded me a little bit of Miss Fisher murder mysteries (wich is a show I love and rewatch often)

It was a little slow getting into but it got very interesting. There is 18 books in the series so I see a lot of Maisie Dobbs in my future.

I have actually read books 1 and 2 of Miss Fisher´s murder mysteries by Kerry Greenwood and I´d like to read them all. I really like the characters.

Listening.

I´ve been listening to a lot of hardcore punk recently especially Dead Kennedys.

Ham. This band is always in rotation. If you are not Icelandic Ham is a rock band with cult status that is still active. I´m actually going to see them tonight. I´m very exited.

Twee

I have some twee playlists on spotify. Twee is cute indie music like Belle and Sebastian, She & him and camera obscura.

Recently I bought a casette player. I´ve wanted to do this for a long time. I´m visually impaired and therefore quite clumsy so I thought casettes would fit me better than vinyl (although I use to have record player when I was a teenager). It also fits my minimalistic lifestyle.

The first cassette I bought was Mitski´s Be the cowboy and I really enjoy it.

I have bought 4 more cassettes and I have been raiding thrift stores but I have not found anything but accordion music and 80s tourist tapes from Grand Canary. I´ll be looking around for some more.

Watching

The apocatary diaries. I watch this anime hoping it would akin to Violet Evergarden (wich I really love) It´s not but still very good.

It´s about Maomao who is kidnapped and sold to the imperial palace. She becomes a healer and a food taster and gets into many adventures. It is set in China in the 7^th century. I look forward to seeing season 2.

A lot and lot of youtube videos. I mainly watch youtube and anime because it´s short. I don´t have the attention span for long shows.

Moving

So in the end of march I moved yet again.

For the last 8 years I have moved 8 times, I was in the last place for 3 years so before that it was approx. 2 moves a year.

Now I have gotten lucky (finally) and I got a place I can stay for the rest of my life. I´m so relieved. The constant stress of appartment hunting sure takes a toll.

Now I can breathe.

New socks

 

I recently (yesterday) finished a pair of socks. The pattern is called monte socks by an Icelandic knitting designer Sveina Björk Jóhannesdóttir. I changed it a little (that´s how I do) I skipped the eyelet patterned and made them reach to my calf.

The pattern has a special heel that I like very much, it´s isn´t very complicated and it looks great.

The socks a very comfortable and warm and I´m very pleased with them. I will definietly will be using the heel again, I hate most other heels especially german short row heels (they always have a lot of holes) I guess the heel flap and gusset are the heel i´ve used most often.

 

 

I really want to make a sock pattern called tea and scandal (a miss marple inspired socks) by this handmade life.