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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Ceci N’est Pas Un Yarn Along Photo (by Bethany)
Don’t look now but I totally found a loophole in the rule about the orange cowl that I set for myself last week. I promised that I would finish the cowl before my next Yarn Along photo. The orange cowl … Continue reading
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Update on Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander (by Jill)
I just logged onto the blog to see if Bethany had posted anything today. And then I remembered that it’s Tuesday, which is my day to post. Ooops. I forgot. Anyway. I’m now about halfway through Outlander, and things … Continue reading
Already obsessed…. Thoughts on the first quarter of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander (by Jill)
It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me well that I’m already absolutely wrapped up in Diana Gabaldon’s world, and I’m not even a quarter of the way through the first book yet. I am thinking exactly … Continue reading
Yarn Along
This picture of the orange cowl comes with a promise: I will finish it by the time I take my next Yarn Along photo. I know – I don’t have a whole lot of street cred when it comes to … Continue reading
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True Confessions Tuesday
I’m reading Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander right now and I’m quite enjoying it, though I’m only just beginning. Gabaldon’s books are long, long, long, which I find intimidating generally, especially with less than three months to go in 2014 and twelve … Continue reading
A Review of John Durant’s The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health (by Bethany)
I read this book not because I’m planning to go on the Paleo diet but because I thought (correctly) that it would affirm my general belief that the world has been screwy since the Industrial Revolution. (The world was screwy before … Continue reading
A Review of John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van (by Bethany)
Is it just me, or has this novel received tons of hype? Maybe not as much as We Are Not Ourselves, I’ll grant you, but tons nonetheless. Everyone seems unbelievably hyped up about the fact that John Darnielle, who apparently … Continue reading
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Final thoughts on Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides (by Jill)
I felt when I finished this book last night the same way I feel whenever I finish a book that takes me more than two weeks to read: relieved and exhausted, which is especially true after finishing The Prince of … Continue reading
An Update on War and Peace (by Bethany)
Pages read: 325 out of 1455 Anyone who has read Russian novels knows that it is almost impossible to keep all the names straight, as each character has a family name that is only mentioned once every three hundred … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 