Booking Through Thursday: Paper or plastic?

by athena // 31 May, 2007 // 5 Comments

Do you read e-Books? – Not really. I have a few on the computer, and I’m a big proponent of Gutenberg, Google and books digitization. I even wrote a paper about it, but I don’t generally read them. If so,... Continue reading →

All Tangled Up

by athena // 29 May, 2007 // 3 Comments

Â On your left, is the two balls of Wendy Merino DK that I bought an hour ago, and on your right is The Bane of My Existence: a tangled mess of the Misti Alpaca Lace that I posted about buying... Continue reading →

Summer Reading Challenge

by athena // 28 May, 2007 // 7 Comments

Here is my reading list for the Summer Reading Challenge (June 1- August 1). Almost all of it is young adult or children’s lit which is funny and also will give me a slightly high chance of actually finishing the... Continue reading →

Yarn-me

by athena // 27 May, 2007 // 1 Comment

Here I am spending money again on yarn. One of my LYSs is having a clearance sale on Meilweneit Cotton sock yarn (45% cotton, 42% wool, 13% nylon) at 50% off so I bought a skein of the Spirit (knits... Continue reading →

Bitten

by athena // 25 May, 2007 // 4 Comments

My trip from the wilderness (cottage country) allocated me some wonderful souvenirs: big, itchy bug bites! I always seem particularly susceptible, and I don’t own bug spray since I don’t go to the country too much.Â I’m one of those... Continue reading →

Booking Through Thursday: Foreign

by athena // 24 May, 2007 // 4 Comments

Do you have any foreign language books and if so can you (still) read them? – BTT Personally, I own one or two French books from my Immersion days. I do read at least one French book a year in... Continue reading →

First Socks: The Journey Begins

by athena // 23 May, 2007 // 2 Comments

Socks: essential and addictive to some knitters, a road to be crossed for others. I decided to try my hand at this last winter. These socks will be my first, and I’ll be making them for myself. I have been... Continue reading →

Literary Links; Classics Debate

by athena // 21 May, 2007 // 6 Comments

I’ve been attracting some literary links while surfing lately. TwitterLit – Updated twice a day on the various Twitter accounts with the first line of books. A very good way to get book recommendations if you’re a Twitter addict as... Continue reading →

The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman

by athena // 19 May, 2007 // 1 Comment

My original plan after reading The Ruby in the Smoke was to write a big review of the whole Sally Lockhart quartet because I wrongly assumed the other three books would be as short as that first book. I should... Continue reading →

Heat by Bill Buford

by athena // 18 May, 2007 // No Comments

The full title of this book is Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford. Without previous experience in the food business, Buford enters first the food... Continue reading →

Friday’s Feast 144

by athena // 18 May, 2007 // 17 Comments

Appetizer – List 3 emotions you experienced this week. Futility. Frustration. Fatigue. Soup – Name a car youâ€™d love to have. I’m a bad driver, but I do know cars even if I don’t want to own one: a Mini... Continue reading →

Booking Through Thursday – Bookless

by athena // 17 May, 2007 // 1 Comment

It happens even to the best readers from time to timeâ€¦ you close the cover on the book youâ€™re reading and discover, to your horror, that thereâ€™s nothing else to read. Either thereâ€™s nothing in the house, or nothing youâ€™re... Continue reading →

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Month: May 2007