It's been my experience that things come in threes, good and bad. And, so, at the end of this blog, here are three book-related "things" I've recently discovered and enjoyed perusing, slowly:
*Little Free Library
This site was introduced to me by Dee Dee and she hopes to get her son, Tyler, to build a little free library to place outside her Santa Cruz cottage.
*"Mystery is alive and well in St. Looey"
Luscious Literate Links!
- Jungle Red Writers
- The Poisoned Pen Bookstore
- Find an Independent Bookstore Near You!
- Bodleian Library
- AKA Laubach Literacy
- I Love Libraries!
- Belle Bridge Books: Fiction happens. Any time. Any place. Come with.
- Fantastic Fiction: UK and USA
- The Rap Sheet: the ultimate blog to a gazillion mystery-related links
- Book Passage: Bay Area's Liveliest Book Store!
- British Library
- Minnesota Center for Books
- Academy of Book Binding
- Mill Valley Library
- Edinburgh Book Festival
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Spinning Tales by the Light of the Silvery Moon
Continuing the web/weaving theme of yesterday's post (and no, Charles/Charlotte didn't succumb to the pest technician's monthly maintenance), I've been researching local textile classes and teachers in search of a beginner's spinning class.
With the economy in the shape it's in and my income prospects still dim (perhaps tonight's full moon will enlighten that situation), my rallying cry of "off-the-grid seaside cottage" has reached smoke-alarm intensity and I figured I'd better do something more than just keep repeating that statement.
While researching the spinning class options, and there are several, my mind went to the origin of "spinning tales" and sure enough found the interconnection among the spinning wheels, spider webs and novelists:
*in the U.K., the phrase is "spin a yarn" harking to those days when women would sit at spinning wheels, spinning yarn and tell tales to pass the time.
*the spider "spins a web" meaning forming, creating as when someone "spins" a tale or story
*the novelist completing chapter 3 is making a continuous connective thread
And where does all this spinning lead this post? I don't know; it seems I've lost the thread of connection . . .
With the economy in the shape it's in and my income prospects still dim (perhaps tonight's full moon will enlighten that situation), my rallying cry of "off-the-grid seaside cottage" has reached smoke-alarm intensity and I figured I'd better do something more than just keep repeating that statement.
While researching the spinning class options, and there are several, my mind went to the origin of "spinning tales" and sure enough found the interconnection among the spinning wheels, spider webs and novelists:
*in the U.K., the phrase is "spin a yarn" harking to those days when women would sit at spinning wheels, spinning yarn and tell tales to pass the time.
*the spider "spins a web" meaning forming, creating as when someone "spins" a tale or story
*the novelist completing chapter 3 is making a continuous connective thread
And where does all this spinning lead this post? I don't know; it seems I've lost the thread of connection . . .
Monday, October 10, 2011
Web Weaving
This lovely portrait of nature greeted me this morning as I opened the door to the monthly visit of my pest technician. How appropriate, we both thought, as Halloween approaches. My neighborhood's Halloweens are legendary. Our street is one of the few, flat, long streets in town and is the major thoroughfare for the elementary school at the street's one end, for the residents living in the hills, not to mention emergency vehicles of every stripe. In years past, about 200 kids have shown up at the door and in the five years I've participated, I've run out of candy each year. And, the decorations' anchor is a six-foot web made of twine! Must be I was inspired by the all the web-weaving naturally surrounding the house.
Charles'/Charlotte's Web |
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