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18 original designs that illustrate different techniques for knitting with beads.
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Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. I am now dying to get my hands on some beads and work with Scarlet Taylor’s fabulous patterns in Knit With Beads. It’s the follow-up to a book I have not read, but these aren’t advanced techniques, as far as [...]

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My birthday was on Sunday, but it extended through today with a box of books that Superfast Husband bought for me! Check out this tantalizing list of books–I don’t know what to read first (after I finish The Fionavar Tapestry)!

The Axe, Volume 1 of The Master of Hestviken and Gunnar’s Daughter by Sigrid Undset
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Book 2 of the Fionavar Tapestry finds five Canadian students returning to an alternate universe where they continue to fight an epic battle against a demonic demigod and step further into their unique destinies.
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As with any good second book in a trilogy, The Wandering Fire deepens the Fionavar mythology and heightens the stakes for all [...]

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You may be aware that members of the Writers Guild of America are on strike, sending late night talk shows into reruns and threatening the remainder of the television season. I am one of them.
You may have no idea why. Here’s a short video that explains what’s at stake:

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Five Toronto college students are pulled into an alternate world where they discover their true destinies at the outset of a war that could affect all worlds, including their own.
Review:
Yep, another hard-to-synopsize epic fantasy book. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay employs one of the standard fantasy templates–ordinary people drawn into an extraordinary [...]

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A headstrong Upper West Side yearns to escape her family’s Jewish Bronx origins and become a Broadway star.
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This is the third or fourth time I’ve read Marjorie Morningstar, and every time I find myself absolutely riveted for the first two-thirds, then bored and indifferent for the final third, only to be knocked out by the [...]

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First of all–happy NaNoWriMo & good luck to all who are participating! I’d be with you if my baby’s due date weren’t smack dab in the middle of the month.
This week’s meme:
What with yesterday being Halloween, and all . . . do you read horror? Stories of things that go bump in the night [...]

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