u/ancientreader2
Part of my minute garden is (in the process of becoming) native plants/pollinator habitat, and on part I grow tomatoes, kale, squash, and beans. (Yes it's crowded!) I'd like to plant a winter cover crop but have just learned that red clover is invasive. The name "purple prairie clover" doesn't exactly scream "Northeastern US," but would that be a reasonable choice? Or -- ?
Thank you as ever!
Hi -- New to this sub and fairly new to gardening generally. I have a minute (20 feet x 15 feet, more or less) backyard that I've been planting with various berries and other food plants as well as pollinator-attracting flowers.
It turns out to be surprisingly difficult, despite my decent google-fu, to find online sellers of native plants for my area. (I've checked the resources in the sub wiki.) We don't have a car, so I can't readily travel to a nursery unless it's accessible via bus or subway -- hence the need for online sales.
Are there any sources people might recommend? Please and thank you!
Hello all --
Googling for theater in Dublin presents us almost entirely with concerts, secondarily with musicals. We'd like to see non-musical plays, experimental theater, that sort of thing. With apologies for the comparison with empire, think off-West End / off-Broadway. Can anyone recommend a source for info?
Many thanks, of course!
I downloaded the Libation update, 12.0.4, but I can't find an executable in the unzipped folder and it's not running automatically.
For context, Windows 11.
Thanks for any help!
I've been looking through Audible Plus for titles to download via Libation and I see that hundreds of history titles are leaving at the end of this month. I haven't even begun to check other categories, but this seems like a good time to take a look if there's something you want to hang on to.
ETA: This took off a lot more than I was expecting! Thanks to everyone for weighing in -- I appreciate all the complexity and it was good to see the range of opinions. I'm also really, really grateful to you all for keeping this potentially toxic conversation courteous.
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I can see this conversation going sideways in a hurry, so right off the bat, a disclaimer: Please don't shame or even downvote anyone for any respectfully expressed opinion, okay? And I am perfectly happy for the mods to delete this post instantly if the comments get shitty.
Here goes:
I know many people find the "gay for you" trope offensive. I'm puzzled by this, because it seems to me that people ~~make~
Here.
Disclaimer: I haven't yet looked at these so have no idea whether there's anything worth reading. Fingers crossed!
He wrote three books -- the werewolf novel Lupine Road, and the first two installments, The Dead and Boneyard, of an m/m series called Thaumaturge, in which the lovers are a man who can raise the dead, and a vampire. His website's gone and in his last response to a reader q on GR he said he hoped to have the third installment of Thaumaturge done in 2019.
All three books are really good and none of them seems to be available anywhere anymore. I borrowed them from KU ages ago and wish I'd just bought the damn things -- thankfully my downloads still exist.
A link exists to an old tweet in which he mentions being depressed. I hope he's well, even if he never writes another book again -
NEVER MIND! I solved my own problem: it was Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races. And it's a f/m romance, so not even on topic for this sub. Sigh.
Suddenly remembered a book I read a few years ago and loved -- isn't that always the way.
It was set in a seaside area in Scotland or possibly Ireland (depending on how the Gaelic term was spelled, which I don't remember). The protagonist rode in horse races, where the horses were the mythical and extremely dangerous water horses. I'm not even 100% sure this was a romance novel but IIRC he fell in love with a rival racer, and a mutual enemy tried to kill that racer.
~~The protagonist also had a special relationship of trust
Do you love 'em? Do you hate them? Are you indifferent to them?
Not looking to rag on any particular book (or to rave about any particular book), not looking to spoil anybody's fun, just curious because there are so many of them every year -- are they as popular as all that?
(Also, I realize that Hanukkah romances exist, but the Christmas ones are ubiquitous, so.)
What writers have written one book* that you adore, and then vanished?
"Vanished" is obviously open to interpretation, but for the purposes of my question say it's been a couple of years and either they have no website/social media or those have been inactive for a long time. And first-time authors published in 2021 or later don't count.
My contributions:
Morgan Hawes, who published Late Bloomer, one of my favorite books of all time, back in 2019 and who is nowhere to be found.
Moriah Gemel, Load the Dice (2015)
Rowan Mai, [Shadowboxing](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/
Starts today.
