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Quickie – One Salt Sea

16 Friday Sep 2016

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Just finished One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire, and I’m falling more and more in love with each brutal gut punch she writes.

Anyone interested in my thoughts should feel free to wander over to my review on Goodreads. Anyone interested in a good book should consider checking out my review of Rosemary and Rue, which is the first book in the October Daye series, and then should go and pick up the book and read it themselves and maybe even let me know what they think!

 

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Unlikely Sources …

14 Wednesday Sep 2016

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A friend of mine is starting an Estonian class, and she amused herself tonight by reading through the glossary at the end of the book. We aren’t quite sure when the textbook was made, or by whom, but the words they evidently think are crucial for a potential student to know are endearingly bizarre.

She pointed out that they might make some entertaining writing prompts, so I’m writing them down before I lose them all in a blurry facebook messenger haze.

  • Nighthawk || Grey-black grouse
  • Grammofon
  • Bat
  • Mink || Sable
  • Emerald
  • Smoking jacket || Tails
  • Displaced person, exile
  • Offer of marriage || Single, unmarried || Honeymoon
  • Ancient fortified stronghold
  • Harvest festival
  • Danger of drowning
  • Brassiere || Panties || Petticoat
  • Rye bread || Sauerkraut || Head cheese || Sandwich || Christmas sausage
  • Potato
  • Large quantity or amount
  • Lipstick
  • Gentleman || Woman, wife || Girl, maid
  • Weather bureau
  • To pound or nail
  • Milk store
  • Stallion
  • Carnations

Possible prompt: A young unmarried woman (dressed in her panties, mink bra, and sable petticoat) hopes to lure a gentleman into making an offer of marriage by cooking him sauerkraut and potato and Christmas sausage at the Harvest festival.

I’ll link to the results if I ever actually follow through with this.

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