Booking It…To Bed, That Is.

Lately, I’ve been notching off even more books on the “Life List” than I have since my days of working nights…many slow nights. Two years of grad school plus work did not afford me as much outside reading time as I would normally like, and quite frankly, things were busy.
But now that I have to [...]

Ok, so I buy a lot of tomes yet I’m a librarian…’book me’ for my crimes…

There’s something absolutely relaxing about spending a rainy afternoon in a local bookshop. I’ve been known to spend upwards of hours just purusing the shelves for reads of any kind–fiction, non, cooking, knitting, and the like. It’s like the bookshop and I are soulmates, everlasting companions, and downright addicted to each other–I get the experience [...]

Y.A. books are about to become my “other half”…

This summer, as part of my reading agenda, I am feverishly trying to wade my way through the better part of a whole host of new young adult novels and the like which we’ve just received at my library, so that I can provide better recommendations to my students–and based entirely on the fact that [...]

“Summer” reading…

I am a self-professed book addict. Back when my job allowed, I’d read on average 2-3 books a week in downtime and while sitting on the night shift. Alas, now I have to squeeze that time in before and after work, a few hours here and there–and most certainly in good measure on Saturdays or [...]

So close to bliss…

Photography by Harry S. Cahill
In just two days time, I will officially be a librarian, as in, I will have completed all requirements for my Master’s of Library and Information Science. Furthermore, we will have just one month until school closes for Summer break in work, meaning our hours of actually foot-stomping library technology work [...]

Pfff on those scholars who attribute the blues strictly to tragedy…there are no blues to be had reading these books.

I have had my head in pleasure reading books for the last couple of weeks, especially since classes in my last semester of library school (!) have yet to begin so all it is now is working and reading and crafting.
The other day I picked up two reads I’ve been dying to check out for [...]

The “meat” of a good read is in the storytelling…even if it’s about The Donner Party.

Over the last days, I haven’t had tons of time for my latest cast-on because I’ve had my head stuck in the pages of Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick ever since it landed on my doorstep yesterday morning.
And might I say, as Boston readies, and begins, this heinous winter [...]

A woman of many…elfish fisherman…caps? If it doesn’t work out, at least I’ll have something to stuff dead fish in for eatage?

Today, I’ve decided to take to getting a good chunk of Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Shirley” (another gift from Mum for Christmas) completed, peruse the latest issue of Knit.1 (which has loads of patterns I want to try–including an homage to trends and bloggers in the knitting world, featuring the deliciousness of chunky knitwear….told you!), and [...]

Whale’s tail? Nope, tale.

I quite highly recommend that you read a thrilling tome about the history of whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin. The book, Leviathan, is absolutely brills, really, with no detail left unturned and a comprehensive history of England and the role its “entrepreneurs” and “explorers” played on the entire practice.
And for those of you [...]

Box of socks…sock of socks? Just, well, socks. In a box. Not as a gift. Yes as a gift?

For some reason, I’ve coveted this box o’ knitting pattern socks for about a year now, mainly because the concept is cool (and same for the box of mittens, etc.). Alas, I’ve always pretty much detested sock knitting until a couple of months ago, when I decided an addiction was taking place because I can [...]