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“Tales of the Madman Underground” by John Barnes

This big book was a little scary to start, the cover material did not make it sound like a book that I would enjoy, and it was a long one to boot. It was also a little slow to start, and I let myself get distracted by a couple of other things. Once I got going, and really got into it, though, I was ... VIEW POST

Holly and Mistletoe, Mostly Finished

I have a bad habit of calling a quilt finished when the quilting is done. It is not, in fact, completely done until the binding is all attached, but here I am again, telling you about a quilt that I've just "finished." I posted last weekend about it, whining about how I just a little bit of the ... VIEW POST

“Going Bovine” by Libba Bray

"Going Bovine" is a strange trip of a book. I read this a few years ago, probably close to when it was first published. I enjoyed a lot of it, but frankly, I felt like there was too much of it for me. It's based on "Don Quixote" and like it's source material, the adventures ramble on. And on. I'm ... VIEW POST

“This quilt is taking forever” — a pathetic story, by Suzanne

This is the quilt I wanted to finish over the weekend, but ignored in favor of apples.  I feel like it's taking forever, because it is. I think the original post about starting it is buried in the blog archives here, somewhere around 2010 (ish?). The machine quilting got started around the first of ... VIEW POST

Apple Sunday

I had one goal for today, and that was to finish the quilt that has been on the frame for months. But then I stayed in bed until 10:00 and decided I wanted to try to make applesauce, so my day was instead spent making a gigantic mess in my kitchen. No quilting happened, but I have nearly 6 ... VIEW POST

“Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith” by Deborah Heiligman

I didn't dislike this book, but I couldn't quite figure out why it was considered worthy of honor by the Printz Committee -- or of any of the honors it received. It was...fine? I learned quite a bit, actually, about Darwin's work and how he came up with his ideas, which was quite interesting, but ... VIEW POST