Month: September 2017

fiber friday

Fiber Friday Not So Fab

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It is ever so sad the lack of progress I’ve made (you need to look for it with a magnifying glass) with my Spunky Eclectic Club spinning.

All I did in the last two weeks was finish one bobbin of the February 2016 Farmer’s (BFL) Sheepswool in “Aspens.” Then I did manage to spin two of my fiber nests onto bobbin two. Lastly I prepped half of the March 2016 Po-Mo-Silk in “Black Pillar” bump in fiber nests and plunked them into a ziploc bag for safe keeping. Continue reading “Fiber Friday Not So Fab” →

#TBT Review: The Life You Long For

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Life Longed ForBook Title: The Life You Long For

Author: Maribeth Fischer

Genres:  Adult Fiction, Suspense

Pub Date: March 6, 2007

3 STARS

When every mother’s worst nightmare becomes Grace’s reality, she must examine her entire life — from the wrong choices to the right mistakes. Grace’s son Jack is a miracle. At three years old, he’s fighting a mysterious, deadly disease that his doctors predicted would kill him as a baby. Even though it was determined to be mitochondrial disease, the little-known illness remains a mystery to medicine. Grace has sat by his bedside every minute he has been in the hospital, questioned every diagnosis, every medicine — even poring over medical journals and books at home late into the night. To the world, Grace’s fierce dedication is the sole reason for her son’s survival. But someone suspects that perhaps Jack’s disease is not what it seems. Continue reading “#TBT Review: The Life You Long For” →

#TBT Review: The Keep

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TBT ReviewBook Title: The Keep

Author: Jennifer Egan

Genres:  Suspense, Adult Fiction

Pub Date: Reprint 7-10-07

5 STARS

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep-–the tower, the last stand-–is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Continue reading “#TBT Review: The Keep” →

Homegoing Review

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homegoing reviewBook Title: Homegoing

Author: Yaa Gyasi

Genres:  Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Pub Date: 6/7/16

5 STARS

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. Continue reading “Homegoing Review” →

fiber friday

Fiber Friday

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Besides not getting a lot of knitting done this week, even less was  accomplished with my fiber and on the spinning side. Only 1 oz (quarter of the February 2016 Spunky Eclectic Club bump) is on a bobbin. It’s Farmer’s (BFL) Sheepswool in “Aspens.” But I do find spinning extremely relaxing and therapeutic, which might come in handy as we wait to see how Irma’s journey through Florida shakes out. Continue reading “Fiber Friday” →

#TBT Review: The World to Come

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TBT ReviewTitle: The World toCome

Author: Dara Horn

Genre:  Literary Fiction

Pub Date: October 17, 2006

3 STARS

 

A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles’ cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents’ living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family’s startling history–from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.

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WIP It Wednesday

WIP It Wednesday

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A short and quick WIP It Wednesday as I truly only made a little bit of progress on the second sock of my male Hermione Every Day sock. Only still have just my i-cord cast-on done for Clue 1 of What the Fade Shawl. Lots of distractions with the just-in-case preparation for Hurricane Irma. Lines at the gas stations are already backed up and most stores are out of water. Thankfully we are stocked up with water, batteries and dry good food items.