June 27, 2006
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What is Liberty?
Good question. Liberty is my favourite shop in London, with my favourite café on the second floor, and within my favourite café, my favourite waiter. Much knitting also goes on there. It is a very delightful spot.
In other news, I have finally finished the interminable ribbing on Audrey. Now I'm on the interminable edging. It is not much more interesting than the ribbing, to be honest, but does have the odd yarn forward to help maintain a functional brain. Apparently I want 18 repeats for a size XS, I've done six, which doesn't look likI'm sure my gauge is way off, but there's no gauge for this bit, so who can tell? I'm enjoying Sergeant Pepper far more. And that's shaped stocking stitch at the moment (yum). Proper zen knitting.
I need to finish Lolita quickly. Reading it just before I go to sleep is rendering me unable to sleep properly... I have 80 pages to go, and it's a reasonably quick read, which is just as well, I guess. Never, ever, again. Too disturbing. It's a horrible story. If anyone would like to suggest some nice, soothing, bedtime reading, I'd be grateful. If not, I'll read Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day again: one of my favourites.
Right. Now I've snarled at the current data assistant type person, I'm feeling thoroughly unsettled. Still, I have softball to look forward to this evening, and a gig if I'm not too knackered afterwards!
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I'm currently working through Joe Orton's biography. Would have recommended Uta Hagen, as she kept sending me to sleep when I was in the bath, yet (strangely) she made sense when reading in bed.
Other than that - there's always the attempt at 'The Solitaire Mystery'.
L xx
Liberty sounds like it would be my favorite place, too, if I was close enough to go.
Try Godmother's Web by Elizabeth Ann
Scarborough. There's an American Indian spinner who lurks in the background of the story. She's shown on the cover with a Navajo spindle. The main character in the story is named Cindy Ellis, and the person who taught me to spin was named Cindy Ellis, too, so that's a plus for me.
There's a book called "Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear" by Jody Lynn Nye that's one of my favorites. It's a collection of short stories about people's relationships with their mothers. I don't usually like anthologies, but this is good. It' full of stories titled after things mothers say to their kids, like your face will freeze like that, etc. My favorite is called Space Cadet, and fiberarts gets to save an entire planet! It's a spoof of science fiction, starring Space Cadet Victoria Fredricks (Victoria has a secret).
Check out used bookstores in the science fiction section, or http://www.half.com or amazon. I don't think you'll find either of them new.
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