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from weatherpixie.com

[found via indigirl]

this selection of books is something i want to keep around to refer to as, although i’ve only read a handful ^* of the books on the list, i thought that every one of those handful was an excellent book. so it feels like i can trust their opinion.

[found via rebecca's pocket]

(*) to kill a mockingbird is long due a reread, i read the great gatsby about three years ago and adored it, i think i read the grapes of wrath years ago but i must reread now i’m a grown up, white teeth is probably my least favourite of these books but a stonking good story all the same, a thousand acres is wonderful though i liked smiley’s lidie newton book better myself, also the weight of water which again isn’t shreve’s best work as far as i’m concerned – try strange fits of passion instead, the handmaid’s tale should go down in history as a classic, and finally captain corelli’s mandolin is another book well worth the effort of reading. actually i’ve just spotted birdsong on the list and i couldn’t get into that book, must try again, but i still think the list promises great things.

at the moment my attention is on:

• threads magazine, tons of useful sewing type articles, as i’ve just pulled my sewing machine down out of the loft and am a bit apprehensive about remembering how it works.
• knitty.com, lots of fun knitting stuff and i especially like this jumper which manages to be stripy without looking like you ought to be three years old to wear it and these gloves hiding inside mittens which look terribly complicated but not too lengthy, i want some for next winter.
• get crafty, full of ideas for weird and wonderful projects.