In November while in upstate New York, we took a small afternoon trip to Saratoga Springs, a small, relatively affluent college town near where @seanbala grew up. We made two stops. One was Lyrical Ballad Bookstore. It was an amazing warren of shelves and lots of old books, maps, newspapers, and pictures. Funny thing is that even though he grew up here, this was Sean's first time going!
@seanbala@bookstodon Afterwards, we went to Uncommon Ground, a local coffee shop that makes its own bagels and roasts its own coffee. We got one of the best mochas we've had in a long time and a bagel with some schmear. Worth checking out if you ever visit!
@seanbala read a book while @dohappybelove did some painting. A good afternoon that we needed at that moment.
I love em-dashes, semicolons, and utilize Oxford commas. I also describe nature with influences of Tolkien. Yes the story might meander into side quests but…it’s worth it.
In this anxious time of destruction and war I couldn't handle any extra load. T. Kingfisher with this (mostly) low stakes cozy romance, was all I could handle. She helped me wined down and get some rest.
There is something compelling about women with sensitive noses and chivalrous knights. (See also, Clockwork Boys).
Through a completely unavoidable series of unfortunate circumstances and coincidences, Bad Luck keeps happening to the thoroughly unfortunate Charles Darnay*! And you can find out what happens next on https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
*endless foreseeable terrible choices, and nothing else
Starting in just a few minutes over on https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy Sam will be going live to read you the second half of #TheDamned by #AlgernonBlackwood. It's a haunting unique take on a haunted house, and perfect accompaniment to the darkening autumnal evenings.
Going live in just a minute over on Twitch, it's Lucy with further reading from A Tale of Two Cities! Plots are thickening, tension is building, and I can easily guarantee a cosy way to spend a couple of hours this evening!
See you there?
The seasons are starting to turn, heralded by the first autumnal chill upon the breeze, and soon it shall be time to hurdle up indoors and listen to ghost stories.
15 minutes in fact, when Sam goes live over at https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy with some #MRJames and #ArthurConanDoyle. #Cozy times guaranteed
Fancy joining us for the last stream of #BOOKWEEK, where we've been celebrating the channel's anniversary? This promises to be a pretty informal one, as Lucy and Sam go live to chat, and read some poems and plays/sketches. Grab yourself a hot drink and a snack, and we'll see you over at https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy @bookstodon
Can't stop the #BookWeek at https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
Tonight Sam's back with some Year One favourites! We've got Dickens, Stevenson, Middleton, Nesbitt, and maybe more if there's time? Come and find a new story to love! @bookstodon
My review of one for the #cozy fans - Antiques and Assault by Rodney Strong:
The fourth entry in the Silvermoon Retirement Village series, ANTIQUES AND ASSAULT is part of what's overall a cozy, fun series, with 98 year old Alice Atkinson at the centre of a maelstrom of murder, vice and goings on that would do more than rock a retirement home - but Alice, and the retirement village she secretly owns, are made of much sterner stuff. Just.