This reading challenge immediately caught my eye. I have a number of classics in my reading queue, and it seemed like the perfect excuse to dust off that portion of my virtual TBR pile. The challenge is to read just one book. (There’s a higher level to read four books, but I tend to read […]
Really Old Classics Challenge 11/1/2009 – 2/28/2010 Read More »
I think I only lasted a grand total of 24 hours on the enjoying having only finished projects thing. Yesterday evening was cold and rainy/snowy, and my hands were itching for some more knitting. So I cast on a Traveling Woman shawl with the Claudia’s Hand Painted Silk yarn I bought last time I was
Pattern: Asherton Reversible ScarfYarn: Knit Pick’s Wool of the Andes Kettled Dyed, in the Auburn colorwayNeedles: size 8 I made this scarf for the Red Scarf Project. It’s a nice, unisex pattern. I did manage to fudge the row 11-14 and 33-36 repeats so it’s not quite as geometric looking as it should be, but
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Jenny is a thirteen-year-old from New York City whose world is turned upside down when her mother marries an Englishman. The next thing she knows, she and her mother have moved to a farm in Dorset, and she’s acquired two new step-brothers. What follows is a combination ghost
Tamsin – Peter Beagle Read More »
Pattern: Rivergrass by Wendy JohnsonYarn: Sundara sock in the Pine over Gold colorwayNeedles: 1.5 DPNs I’ve finished my first socks for the current cycle of Sockdown, using one of the pattern I received from the Sock Yarnista club. This was my second pair of toe up socks, and the short row heel is definitely getting
I’m not done with my Sockdown September socks yet, and this is why. I had my ball winder out on Thursday to rewind some sock yarn scraps I was sending out, and in a fit of what I now know to be stunning naivete, I decided it was time to finally wind the Malabrigo sock
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. In Cambridge, during the reign of Henry II, four children have been murdered. The town’s Jews have been wrongly accused of the murders. They’ve been given sanctuary by the sheriff, and are now trapped in the castle under threat of death by the townspeople outside. So Henry sends
Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin Read More »
Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Arthur Penhaligon is a normal boy who was never meant to be a hero. In fact, he should have died, except his life was saved by the sudden arrival a key that’s shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur discovers that this key belongs to Mister
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. There’s a surprising amount of variety in this slim book of short stories – all of which are retellings of fairy tales, with a modern, adult twist. The title story is a retelling of the story of Bluebeard, this time set on the coast of Brittany, as a
The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter Read More »
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Jill Kismet is a Hunter, trained to keep regular humans safe from Hellbreed. It’s not an easy job. Her teacher was recently killed, and she’s made a deal with one of the local hellbreed leaders that gives her great power, but may be her undoing. In the midst
Night Shift – Lilith Saintcrow Read More »