What’s The Ten-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester and Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. LaFevers.
“Is it really unlucky to have peacock feathers in the house?”
In her book, Reading like a Writer, Francine Prose casually states that it’s bad luck to have peacock feathers in the house. I’d never heard that before. So of course, I wanted to know: do peacock feathers bring bad luck?
(Not at all) Wordless Wednesday: Fractal Cauliflower
Every time we go to the farmer’s market I try to find at least one fruit or vegetable we’ve never had before. This week, we stumbled across a pale green cauliflower-shaped vegetable made of fractals. So of course, we took it home and roasted it.
Another year gone already?
Well, you’ve done it again. Spent another year reading Caterpickles, and I am profoundly grateful for it. I know what I was curious about this year,…
Caterpickles’ Year in Books
I’ve been using Goodreads on a personal basis for years now. Last year, I decided to set up a separate Goodreads page to track the books…
Wordless Wednesday: Something’s different about Christmas in California
Can’t quite put my finger on it, though. Related Links: More Wordless Wednesday on Caterpickles
Merry Christmas, from all of us at Caterpickles Central
May your Cat TV be merry and bright this holiday season! Thanks for spending time with us at Caterpickles this year. Related Links: More Christmas posts…
“What’s a sugar plum, and why does it get its own fairy?”
The holidays have finally struck here at Caterpickles Central. I wasn’t entirely sure it was going to happen this year, seeing as how there are still flowers blooming outside our front door, but I chaperoned The Ten-Year-Old’s field trip to see The Nutcracker last week, and now I’ve got questions about sugar plums dancing in my head. What is a sugar plum, and why does it get its own fairy?
Wordless Wednesday: It’s starting to look like Christmas around here
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Almost Wordless Wednesday: How to make a writer happy
Hey, someone I don’t know yet read my book! (Liked it too!)
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