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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: Good Omens
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Thoughts on: Good Omens. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. Entertaining and enjoyable and very, very nice. Nice as in nice, not precise, which Gaiman and Pratchett keep telling the reader is the original meaning of the word. That, to me, was the longest running joke in the book, but I will say no more for fear of spoiling someone else's fun. I think of it every time Im at a Royal Park feeding the ducks :). Deborah Davis; Gue...
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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: Quiet: The Power of Introverts
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Wednesday, October 10, 2012. Thoughts on: Quiet: The Power of Introverts. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. Quiet is not a self-help book for understanding introverts or thriving as one. It does point out ways that our schools, businesses, and society at large are impacted when society strongly favors extraverts, a bias that is not supported by research. October 11, 2012 at 9:58 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Give thanks in all circumstances.
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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: The Glitter and the Gold
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Thursday, November 29, 2012. Thoughts on: The Glitter and the Gold. The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess- -in Her Own Words. By Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt was part of the later wave of wealthy American debutantes who married English titles. Still in her teens, she married, against her wishes, the Duke of Marlborough in 1895, and was witness to the major events of the first half of the 20th century. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jasper Fforde; The W...
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Read, Knit, Repeat: Baby Geek Onesies
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. These are the onesies I decorated for my friends' babies. Each set was for a different baby. Both girls, born on Sunday and Monday this week.). They were all done with the super easy freezer paper stencil technique. I loved making these! The one in the center is Boba Fett's symbol. The rest you probably recognize. Fawkes, Snape's patronus,Hogwarts, snitch, HP. My daughter did the lettering for the Hogwarts and the pretty wings on the snitch. You are so creative!
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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: The Woman Who Died a Lot
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Thursday, November 29, 2012. Thoughts on: The Woman Who Died a Lot. The Woman Who Died a Lot. I've never liked Thursday more than in The Woman Who Died a Lot. Militant librarians, parenting teens, pain killers, clones in tupperware, and, of course, the end of the world = another brilliant Jasper Fforde novel. The pace of this seventh installment is slower, and so is our aging heroine. There's less action, but plenty of the humour ffans so dearly love, and a poignancy, too. Florence Wi...
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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: Son
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Thursday, November 29, 2012. Many years have passed since I read The Giver, and I was concerned this might diminish my enjoyment of Son. I need not have worried. Lois Lowry includes just enough references to characters in the earlier books to jog the memory, without dragging the story down with excessive exposition. This final installment was written in response to her many readers who have asked, "What happened to the baby from the Giver? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Clara Kra...
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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: The Big Burn
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Thursday, November 29, 2012. Thoughts on: The Big Burn. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Their belief in conservation, unpopular though it was, never faltered, and the underfunded Forest Service soldiered on with young recruits who struggled against powerful business interests who wanted to profit from the resources on the newly declared public land. The human drama of both the fire and political machinations makes The Big Burn a compelling story. Ega...
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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: World War II London Blitz Diary
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Thursday, November 29, 2012. Thoughts on: World War II London Blitz Diary. World War II London Blitz Diary. By Ruby Side Thompson. Ruby Side Thompson was a lifelong diarist. She poured her heart out in her diaries, the one place she felt safe revealing her unhappiness with her life, and, primarily, her husband. The diaries are interesting as a character study of Ruby, but they will disappoint if you are looking for a detailed account of life during the Blitz. Wendell Berry, Fidelity.
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Read, Knit, Repeat: thoughts on: Destiny of the Republic
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Read, Knit, Repeat. Thursday, August 23, 2012. Thoughts on: Destiny of the Republic. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President. When you know perfectly well that the protagonist dies, and you still get teary eyed when it happens, that is a well told tale. It's not only that James Garfield was thoroughly likable, but my heart ached for his devoted wife and children, two of whom were with him when he was shot. Throughout, Millard places the story in the context of i...
