First, in non-furniture news, I have a non-review of Patricia Rice’s Mystic Rider. I almost never do this, but I just couldn’t get myself to read the whole thing. While that means I can’t review the book as such, I think it’s reasonable to explain why I didn’t read the book.

Wheee! As I mentioned earlier, IKEA did make things right by us. They replaced everything that was damaged without argument. The only minor annoyance was the couple of weeks it took to get everything taken care of. Here’s an idea of how things were damaged; this is a corner of a bookcase shelf:
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Here’s a giveaway for you: drop by Kylee’s Book Blog to enter to win a copy of Dancing Above the Waves.

My review today is of Lucy Finn’s upcoming If Wishing Made It So. I swear I didn’t know before I wrote my review that Lucy Finn also writes under the name Savannah Russe… which means she wrote another book I wasn’t entirely fond of. She has some great ideas, but the details in her books tend not to add up for me.

By the way, IKEA did come through for us and replace the boxes that got shipped in such awful condition. It took a couple of weeks, but everything’s taken care of. The delay seems to have been that it just takes their trucking company a little while to schedule things in.

And, in case you were wondering, Cahlash only had to have four teeth extracted this time around. Now if we could just get Selene to stop harassing him.

You can expect some more cooking-related reviews soon!