#foxglove summer

[agardenandlibrary]

Nobody's doing it like her (Beverley Brook riding roughshod over fairyland with a steam train and a shotgun to get her boyfriend back)

#cara reads rol #rivers of london #foxglove summer

[datsderbunnyblog]

"This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations - the better to guide us safely into harbour."

— Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch

#foxglove summer #rivers of london #ben aaronovitch #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett

[evenaturtleduck]

Just finished Foxglove Summer and Tam Lin would have been a lot shorter if Janet had shown up on a giant antique tractor with a shotgun full of scrap iron.

#beverly brook has no chill and it's very sexy of her #rivers of london spoilers #foxglove summer #favorite books #ben aaronovitch #rivers of london

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || May 23 || Book Dedication:

“This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.” - Ben Aaronovitch,  Foxglove Summer

#Foxglove Summer #Ben Aaronovitch #justonemorepage #jompbpc #Rivers of London #book photo challenge #book photography #books #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos

[margysmusings]

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

#quote #book quote #ben aaronovitch #rivers of london #foxglove summer

[owlbear33]

Foxglove Summer is a lot of fun

it's a story of fairies and philandering set in a place not unlike where I actually live

and honestly, It does Peter some good to get out into the country a bit

it's a funny one for me cos like Herefordshire is sorta the next county over for me, like I'm not super close to the Welsh border, but it's more or less all sheep country between me and where the story takes place, you could set that story where I live and the only major difference would be that there would be a lot more bilingual signage

the environment, the characters, the drama, it's all familiar to me and I don't often get to see that in fiction (or at least the supernatural mystery fiction that I like)

on to The Hanging Tree next

#OwlBear Grumbling #owlbear reads #owlbear rereads Rivers of London #Rivers of London #Foxglove Summer

[shsenhaji]

📚 January Reading Round-Up 📚

I got off to a pretty good start this year in terms of reading. I made a lot of progress in the Rivers of London series (which continues to be compelling and great), started a few novels that will take a while to get through, and revisited a series from my childhood.

- Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (unique worldbuilding, kind, subverts tropes in great ways, loved the narrator and the characters and the relationships, some lovely themes and a great epilogue)

- Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch (Interesting, great character development, some cool worldbuilding elements)

- The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch (trans rep, great characters and relationships, perfect tension with the villain, loved Peter trying to bring the Folly into the modern world)

- Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch (bittersweet ending, loved seeing even more of Peter’s character and philosophy, great interactions with every character, an intense and very tense plot and denouement)

- Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch (fun, liked the Peter Grant stories better, felt the Moments were weirdly written)

- All Fall Down by Jean Little (a return to the Dear Canada series of my childhood, didn’t like this story as much as the others written by her and in the series more broadly, pacing felt a bit off and the tension/character work was perhaps a bit too simplistic, but heartfelt and kind nonetheless)

#mine #books #reading round-up #tress of the emerald sea #secret project 1 #brandon sanderson #rivers of london #ben aaronovitch #foxglove summer #the hanging tree #lies sleeping #tales from the folly #all fall down

[dzelonis]

Ben Aaronvitch - Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London #5)

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Manas pārdomas Piektais Rivers of London piedzīvojums izved lasītāju un sērijas galveno varoni Pīteru Grantu ārpus Londonas. Rivers of London pēc atmiņas ir arīdzan pirmā izmeklēšana, kurā galveno lomu bez tiešā priekšnieka Naitingeila asistēšanas un palīdzības Pīteram jāatrisina. Labi, ka vēl palīdz izpalīdzīgs un profesionāls vietējais detektīvs Dominiks (reti…

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#Ben Aaronovitch #Crime #Foxglove Summer #Mystery #Paranormal #Rivers of London #Supernatural #Urban Fantasy

[theemeraldforesthideout]

Foxglove Perimeter

#own photo #photos #woods #foxgloves #june #summer #green #trees #forest #was trying so long to come up with a title #at one point it was like #I summoned an army of foxgloves to heal us #and then it had several sentences #is it me or does the quality look terrible as well #hmmmm #too much noise maybe

[vandaliatraveler]

Early summer at Summit Lake, a quick detour off the Highland Scenic Highway in the Monongahela National Forest.

From top: an unidentified fungi growing in a mossy nook; an impressive young Berkeley's polypore (Bondarzewia berkeleyei), which is not a true polypore but a member of the Russulales order; another massive Berkeley's polypore with my hand for perspective - these beauties can grow up to three feet wide and produce additional shelf-like caps from a single stem, giving them a tiered appearance as they mature; the tall and stately foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), whose profusion of tubular white flowers draws hordes of long-tongued bees and hummingbirds from late spring to early summer; common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), whose large, dangling umbels of pink to purplish flowers are Mother Nature's ultimate pollinator buffets; swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), also known as rose milkweed, a wetlands-loving beauty with narrow, lanceolate leaves; black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), an irresistible summer aster with a prominent, dark brown button at the center of its flower head; and the sensual arc of a fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), whose flowers have elongated, dangling stamens and a four-cleft, curling stamen.

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #wildflowers #flora #allegheny mountains #monongahela national forest #wv route 150 #highland scenic highway #summit lake #early summer #fungi #berkeley's polypore #foxglove beardtongue #common milkweed #swamp milkweed #rose milkweed #black eyed susan #black-eyed susan #fireweed

[agardenandlibrary]

Peter and the Continuing Saga of Him Saying "It's a Good Idea, Really, I Promise" and Everyone Else Ducking for Cover

#cara reads rol #rivers of london #foxglove summer

[mountainnamemama]

Foxglove | East Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, United States

#amateur photography #nature #nature photography #flora and fauna #travel #foxglove #flower photography #flowers #gardening #garden #summer #tennessee #nashville #mental health walk

[notquiteaghost]

one thing that is Niggling at me with rivers of london is. peter grant is a guy who Believes In Policing, which is an ideology i do not personally hold to be true but is also a mostly coherent worldview that makes sense for him to have. except. except! his approach to magic is specifically and explicitly going "okay but why does it work like that", and as someone who has that same kind of compassionate curiosity it feels like a disservice to not have him ask those same questions of the criminal justice system. especially when he is a working class black son of an addict.

like, on a meta level, to be clear. the thing about policing is it IS actually impossible to prevent people hurting others. and we do actually need a system to deal with the after-effects, and that system does need to be formal & somewhat at a remove. the problem is who holds the power in that system and how they use it, and the underlying concept that punishment prevents crime, and how cultural change is slow and difficult. it rings very true to have a guy who on some level doesn't really believe locking criminals up helps anyone in the long run, but has decided it at least helps in the short term and he is okay being the guy doing that. peter Wants To Help, and it does scan for him to decide becoming a cop is how he can do that.

it's just. to then have him join the unit run by a guy who was born before they repealed not just capital punishment but the capital punishment of children. so the concept of Deserved Consequences very much comes up, and continues to come up, and it is an ideological leap to go from "people who have committed crimes do not deserve to be killed" to "people who have committed crimes do not deserve to be imprisoned", and it does make sense for peter not to make it when it would require him to quit his job at the least. but also he spends so much time thinking 'but why does magic work' and absolutely no time thinking 'but why do people do crime' and it's jarring. can we at least acknowledge it's something he's purposefully avoiding yknow

#yelling at clouds #rivers of london #for reference i'm like. a quarter? into lies sleeping #so maybe this does come up later i do not know #that one line in. foxglove summer? about how the police don't tend to care about motive. is going to haunt me.

[darkstarlightpirate]

#foxglove #foxgloves #nature #Summer #summer flowers #sunset #sky #spider #pink #Pink Flower #Daisy #daisys #sunrise #sun #sunshine #dublin #Ireland #Republic of Ireland #Irish #yellow #white #white flowers #yellow flowers #cottage garden #garden #gardening #backgarden #WildGarden #green #apple tree

[margysmusings]

“I may be a city boy, but I'm fairly certain that the greasy purple and red squishy bits are supposed to stay inside the sheep and not be sprayed across a surprisingly large area.” ― Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

#quote #book quote #ben aaronovitch #rivers of london #foxglove summer

[owlbear33]

thinking about it Rivers of London unicorns make an amount of sense

it's a bulky magical ungulate with a big horn on its face, of course, it takes the stance of stab first ask questions maybe never

#OwlBear Grumbling #rivers of london #Foxglove Summer #owlbear reads