* From the local almost daily: My fixation with the laundry.
The official site
Shaken and Stirred: The ebook
Sweater Quest: The Podcast
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
- Amazon
- Books-a-Million
- Barnes and Noble
- IndieBound
- Powell's Books
- Green Toad Book Store
The Green Toad is my local bookshop, which is the best place to go if you'd like a signed copy of Sweater Quest. I can drop down to the store and personalize a copy for you, too. Just drop Michele an email and she'll set you up. - Sweater Quest : Excerpt
Annnnnnnnd something to whet your desire. - The finished cardigan
Hillbilly Gothic: Links
- Simon & Schuster: Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood (Hardcover) - Read an Excerpt
The first chapter. - The Boston Globe
- The SF Chronicle
I debated about adding this one, since it is less than flattering. However, if I'm going to point to the good ones, it seems only fair to point to the mediocre ones. After all, ignoring bad press is the federal government's job, not mine. - ELLE Magazine
- :: Metro Pulse Online ::
- Interview in the San Diego Reader
I can only begin to tell you how much fun this interview was. - Interview podcast from Psychjourney
- Wednesday Author Interview with John Scalzi
on the nightstand
- Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
What. a. book. And now to settle in to wait the next ten years... - K. J. Parker: Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy)
Oh, Parker. Why are you so good? - Genevieve Valentine: Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Dang. What a great book. And I still think circuses will be the next vampire. - Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Mnookin is an am-az-ing reporter and this books shows off all of his skills. I'm the choir here, tho. Not sure how it played in the anti-vax circles. Not well, I'd reckon. - Ann Patchett: State of Wonder
I swoon. (I'm not quite convinced she stuck the landing, however.) - Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude
I've had an ARC of this on my shelf since it first came out and could never make it past the first 60 pages. Finally pushed through last week. It's a wonderful book but so ... I don't know... removed? Isolating? - Ann Patchett: The Magician's Assistant
How beautiful is this book? None more beautiful. Patchett is simply leaves me full of awe and wonder. - Sarah Vowell: Unfamiliar Fishes
I'm not reading this so much as listening to it at the gym as I run to nowhere. It's a little too slow to be great running material but we work with what we have. Vowell is, as usual, her oddly engaging self. What strikes me most, however, is how much and how far 18th and 19th century folk traveled - and how close to home most of us now stay, despite how much easier it is to get places in the 21st century.
bloggage
shameless self-promotion, 355 in a series +some knitting
This post will have a general fibery theme. You've been warned.
First, the promo: an interview with Yarn Harlot Stephanie Pearl-McPhee by yrs trly.
Second, just for stalking purposes, I'll be hanging around the great and almighty Rhinebeck on Sunday. I'll be free range. Stop to say hi if you are so inclined....
Third, progress is being made on the Diva's sweater:
The sleeves are taking for-freakin-ever. Stupid sleeves.
shameless self-promotion, 354 in a series + lordy am i tired
From Locus, on Erin Morgenstern's lovely The Night Circus.
From the local almost daily on the Pit Run. Which I ran - and finished 310. Which is fine and all, it's a pleasure to have finished, etc., but my time was worse than it was the first time, which is a bit of a bummer. Feh.
Still, I got the chicken lunch, which didn't suck.
Part of the reason that my time was lame was because I drove back to Oneonta late Saturday night from the Poconos where the Featureless Saint's extended family was having a fete. Said FS and the Boy drove back on Sunday afternoon.
The Diva came home with me on Saturday, did the kid's fun run on Sunday, then went to a horse show.
And, now, I am so, so tired I can't even tell you how tired I am. But, oh, tired.
shameless self-promotion, 353 in a series + surrealness
Shameless promo: I have two stories in this month's Upstate Life. 
For the first, I got to interview one of the Beekman Boys (squee!); for the second, I ran so far away, both night and day.
In surreal news, Amazon recommended my own book to me this morning. What does that mean?
shameless self-promotion, 352 in a series + cow
* From the local almost-daily: stuff.
* And, on Saturday, as we do every year around this time, we went to the Harvest Fest at the Farmer's Museum.
The Diva "milks" a "cow."
Duck, duck...
.... sheep?
The Boy may have found his calling.
"And I'm all like, Dude."
Ye Olde Pie Eating Contest.
And, of course, a trip on the merry go round.
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