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  • Joe Hill: Heart-Shaped Box
    Scott got me a nook for Christmas. This is the first title I'm reading on it. So far - love both. (I also think the nook feature where you can sample titles before you buy them will save me a ton of money...)
  • Libba Bray: Going Bovine
    So many folks have raved about this that I thought that there was no possible way it could live up to the hype. It does. Gorgeous, sassy book.
  • Phil Foglio: Girl Genius: Omnibus Edition #1 (No. 1)
    I heard so much about this at Anticipation in Montreal that I had to pick up a copy. Enjoying the heck out of it so far. Very steampunkish. Very girl power.
  • John Varley: Rolling Thunder
    Varley just does it for me. YMMV.
  • Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle)
    I coincidentally wound up reading two works of WWII-set fiction simultaneously - this and Connie Willis' Blackout (which you are going to love). TGLAPPPS is a perfectly lovely book, if one can describe a story about Nazi occupation, concentration camps and isolation as lovely. You can tell that there were bits of historical info that the writers didn't know how to seamlessly work in and they turn up in weird chunks - but, ultimately, it is a breezy read. If you can use "breezy" to describe a book about coming through despair.
  • Jincy Willett: The Writing Class
    Did not see that ending coming, which is just further proof that Willett is a master technician. With this, she gets to the ineffable heart about why people write, what a story is and why we read. All with a killer mystery plot and delicious wit.
  • Alan Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    I was skeptical at first, then Flavia's voice completely won me over. It's a snappy, evocative mystery that captures both the enthusiasms of being a smart 11-year old and the emptiness of grief. But it's mostly about stamps and murder and chemistry.
  • David Foster Wallace: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
    This will now be my default college graduation gift. Not only college grads should read it, mind, but it will hit them at the right time. Also, this is a great intro to DFW, who I'm still a little bit angry with.

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glorious? hmm. a sweater probably. or a lace shawl. I have the yarn for a shawl that I spun but my fear of not having enough yarn stops me cold.... I am working on a blanket that I do love very, very much. But something to wear would be.. a bigger dream.

Um, I'd say something like the gorgeous lacy jacket thing that the Tsock Tsarina made for her friend. http://tsocktsarina.com/blog/

Or some lovely colorwork sweater or something. I suspect it depends on what counts as glorious.

Hmmm, coat. Think Dr. Zhivago.

A, have you seen the book "In Praise of the Needlewoman" by Gail C. Sirna? I found a copy at McKay's and I'm enchanted with it, and I don't do any needlecrafts (yet). It is a beautiful, beautiful book.

I hadn't seen Needlewoman and have added it to the wish list. Thanks.

I love the idea of a Dr. Zhivago coat, as well as the lacy jacket thing or blanket. Hrm.

My idea is to spin enough yarn for a glorious something as part of the next book, which I still have to write a proposal for and pitch. Not sure what the something should be, tho.

well I am currently working on EZ's blanket in handspun. Altho I really love the pattern (check out brooklyntweed's version on ravelry) I think I would love even more just to make all of the L shapes and then combine them like a tessellating pattern.

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