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1RuTemple
I'm going to start where I found this list, in April, 2011, and wrap up my year either with the calendar year or next April, I'll decide laaater.
So far, on the read very recently / still on the desk:
1. Warp Fast! by Daryl Lancaster - a book on techniques for warping a loom faster & better for handweaving. I haven't taken the workshop she also gives this as, but can definitely aver that I've learned and will yet try out to learn ideas that are in this work. I will be taking a workshop in the fall of 2011 on sewing from one's handwovens, and I'm looking forward to that tremendously.
2. Finishing Touches for the Handweaver by Virginia West. This one is full of the kind of finishing details that can make a good work great. She has ideas not just for hemstitching and variations on fringes, but also on decorative design elements that work well in finishing items; sewing woven widths together, and details for bags.
I look forward to updating this list through the year. I have a whole raft of books on my to be read pile; delightful to come across a tweet about a read-a-thon this weekend.
So far, on the read very recently / still on the desk:
1. Warp Fast! by Daryl Lancaster - a book on techniques for warping a loom faster & better for handweaving. I haven't taken the workshop she also gives this as, but can definitely aver that I've learned and will yet try out to learn ideas that are in this work. I will be taking a workshop in the fall of 2011 on sewing from one's handwovens, and I'm looking forward to that tremendously.
2. Finishing Touches for the Handweaver by Virginia West. This one is full of the kind of finishing details that can make a good work great. She has ideas not just for hemstitching and variations on fringes, but also on decorative design elements that work well in finishing items; sewing woven widths together, and details for bags.
I look forward to updating this list through the year. I have a whole raft of books on my to be read pile; delightful to come across a tweet about a read-a-thon this weekend.
2alcottacre
Welcome to the group!
5RuTemple
Thanks for the welcome! I look forward to seeing what other folks are reading in their 75-book challenge.
7RuTemple
Sick this weekend with flu, so between Serious Nappage and sips of tea, I've read (or finished):
3. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters - which makes a great reader's-theatre piece I'm told: the autobiography of a small Midwest town in epigraph poetry form.
4. Charmed Life by 26402::Diana Wynne Jones - the author's death last Saturday the 26th March 2011 has spurred loving reminisces by her friends, and me to get around to reading her works. YA Fantasy, wonderful.
5. Mixed Magics by 26402::Diana Wynne Jones - Four shorter works published together. The Harper Collins ebook series have a nice set of post-script tidbits and an author interview.
6. 21653::Witch Week by 26402::Diana Wynne Jones - This one set in one of the worlds in the multiverse where there are lots and lots of magicians but - magic is illegal.
I mentioned reading is great comfort when one is coughing and not sleeping well, and/or waking but fitfully, right? These sweet books are a great tonic.
One more:
7. Treadled Togs A Pattern Book of Loom-Fashion Clothing by Kerry Evans - read through for inspiration; this is a book of projects, clothing patterns, adaptable to one's own fit, to be handwoven on a loom. Cool stuff, though still kind of 1981-boxy; she's daring, and dares you to cut the handwoven cloth to sew honest fashion.
3. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters - which makes a great reader's-theatre piece I'm told: the autobiography of a small Midwest town in epigraph poetry form.
4. Charmed Life by 26402::Diana Wynne Jones - the author's death last Saturday the 26th March 2011 has spurred loving reminisces by her friends, and me to get around to reading her works. YA Fantasy, wonderful.
5. Mixed Magics by 26402::Diana Wynne Jones - Four shorter works published together. The Harper Collins ebook series have a nice set of post-script tidbits and an author interview.
6. 21653::Witch Week by 26402::Diana Wynne Jones - This one set in one of the worlds in the multiverse where there are lots and lots of magicians but - magic is illegal.
I mentioned reading is great comfort when one is coughing and not sleeping well, and/or waking but fitfully, right? These sweet books are a great tonic.
One more:
7. Treadled Togs A Pattern Book of Loom-Fashion Clothing by Kerry Evans - read through for inspiration; this is a book of projects, clothing patterns, adaptable to one's own fit, to be handwoven on a loom. Cool stuff, though still kind of 1981-boxy; she's daring, and dares you to cut the handwoven cloth to sew honest fashion.
8LizzieD
Welcome, Ru! I envy you your weaving. My dear local friend is a weaver with a huge reproduction of a 19th century loom that was in her family. I can sort of weave, but warping the thing would be way, way, way, way, WAY beyond my fiddly fingers.
I'm delighted to see that you read Spoon River Anthology. It's a favorite.
I'm delighted to see that you read Spoon River Anthology. It's a favorite.
9alcottacre
Sorry to hear you have been sick. I hope you feel better soon!
10mamzel
Books and tea! Best things for coughing illnesses. Never heard of a doctor prescribing reading. Maybe they should! Welcome to the challenge. I would love to see pictures of your weaving projects.
11gennyt
#7 I've been spurred on to read more of Diana W J too - I'd only read one of hers before years ago. Now I've just finished The Homeward Bounders.
12RuTemple
Thanks for the welcome, LizzieD! Warping is a little fiddly, but once you've warped, what's weft? as the wags say.
I've made my way through some delicious George R. R. Martin, before learning there'd be some on HBO - we live without a televee, so I'm not seeing them au courant, but look forward to catching up with them. Later.
8. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
9. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
10. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
11. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Splendid books, broad, far-reaching, and I join those eagerly awaiting the publication of A Dance with Dragons later this year.
I've made my way through some delicious George R. R. Martin, before learning there'd be some on HBO - we live without a televee, so I'm not seeing them au courant, but look forward to catching up with them. Later.
8. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
9. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
10. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
11. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Splendid books, broad, far-reaching, and I join those eagerly awaiting the publication of A Dance with Dragons later this year.
13mks27
I have just started A Game of Thrones and I am loving it! Welcome!
14RuTemple
12. Welcome to Bordertown edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner with new voices and old favorites and - I'm so glad to get to visit this shared-world again. Great stories. Each and every last one of them. Some favorite authors, some new to me: good! more of their work to look up.
13. The year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois how on Earth have I survived not reading every year's one of these? For me, it's a mixed bag how much I like some or not some of the stories here, but it's always worth perusing.
Thankfully, it's out as an ebook, and Google eBooks connects up with my local indie bookseller, Kepler's in Menlo Park, so, get this: I can buy ebooks from my local bookstore, at home. Now we're talking.
14. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - I love this book, from the cranky old guy in his aging body and all his reminisces. I think I'll pass on the movie just yet. Loved the book's ending wee little twist.
15. Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction with Jo Walton whose Ha'penny, Farthing stories and poetic blog I adore.
13. The year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois how on Earth have I survived not reading every year's one of these? For me, it's a mixed bag how much I like some or not some of the stories here, but it's always worth perusing.
Thankfully, it's out as an ebook, and Google eBooks connects up with my local indie bookseller, Kepler's in Menlo Park, so, get this: I can buy ebooks from my local bookstore, at home. Now we're talking.
14. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - I love this book, from the cranky old guy in his aging body and all his reminisces. I think I'll pass on the movie just yet. Loved the book's ending wee little twist.
15. Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction with Jo Walton whose Ha'penny, Farthing stories and poetic blog I adore.
15RuTemple
A few more read previously in this year, but not yet noted here. All ebook format, as it happens.
16. Shades of Milk and Honey, by Mary Robinette Kowal
17. Among Others, Jo Walton
18. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
19. The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones
Yes, yes, I will pay top price for a brand newly published book in its electronic format. Publishers, take note, authors, rejoice, 800-pound merchants who want to drive prices down into the dirt at the expense of decent editing and manuscript preparation for publishing good works done very well, STFU and let me have good books well published and all who bring them forth to have a Good Living therefrom. SoBeIt.
16. Shades of Milk and Honey, by Mary Robinette Kowal
17. Among Others, Jo Walton
18. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
19. The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones
Yes, yes, I will pay top price for a brand newly published book in its electronic format. Publishers, take note, authors, rejoice, 800-pound merchants who want to drive prices down into the dirt at the expense of decent editing and manuscript preparation for publishing good works done very well, STFU and let me have good books well published and all who bring them forth to have a Good Living therefrom. SoBeIt.
16alcottacre
#15: I had not heard of those two books by Walton. I will have to see if my local library has them. Thanks for the mention!
17mks27
If you ever do decide to view the film of Water for Elephants in the future, you won't be disappointed. They did a fine job, at least in my opinion. Though, of course, I did like the book better as I usually do.
In terms of A Game of Thrones, I will put off viewing the TV miniseries when it is out on DVD. I am so enjoying the images I have made up in my head, I don't want to alter them in any way.
In terms of A Game of Thrones, I will put off viewing the TV miniseries when it is out on DVD. I am so enjoying the images I have made up in my head, I don't want to alter them in any way.
