March 2, 2021
top ten characters whose job i covet
posted by soe 1:06 am
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share the top ten characters whose jobs I wish I had. It’s a fun topic, but I admit I had to go back to Goodreads to come up with enough answers to finish this week’s list.
If I didn’t develop educational materials, I might want to be:
- Bandette, master thief and righter of wrongs (the Bandette series by Paul Tobin and Colleen Hoover)
- Thursday Next, literary detective (the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde)
- Phoebe, tv script writer (Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
- Dani Brown, women’s studies professor (Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert)
- Phryne Fisher, private investigator (the Phyrne Fisher series by Kerry Greenwood)
- Nina Hill, bookseller (The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Alli Waxman)
- Tuesday Mooney, philanthropy leads researcher (Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Rannicula)
- Kate, local journalist (The Lido by Libby Page)
- Lola Woodby, retrieval specialist (the Discreet Retrieval Agency series by Maia Chance)
- Vianne Rocher, chocolatier (Chocolat by Joanne Harris)
How about you? Are there characters from your reading whose career paths you envy for one reason or another?
February 25, 2021
final unraveling of february
posted by soe 1:10 am
Look! It’s the start of a second sock. Now if only work weren’t back to being so stressful that I can’t keep my eyes open in the evening, I might get further. (That fact doesn’t bode well for my progression in Sock Madness, which kicks off next week.)
To go along with a shorter attention span, a graphic novel (in translation) about a rebellious princess who would rather be off on adventures than learning her royal lessons.
February 23, 2021
top ten books that have made me laugh
posted by soe 1:49 am
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share books that have made us laugh aloud:
- Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White: Had me guffawing on a plane.
- Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens
- Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- Fannie Flagg’s Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven
- The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence
Actually, most of these authors include elements of humor in nearly all of their writing, so I’d recommend picking up any of their titles if you want to be amused.
February 18, 2021
post-birthday unraveling
posted by soe 1:38 am
Saturday was a particularly productive evening for sock knitting, so I now have half a pair of socks.
I am still reading Recipe for Persuasion, but since catchers and pitchers have officially reported for duty in Florida and Arizona, I thought it was time to turn my attention toward a spring training novel, The Cactus League by Emily Nemens. I’m looking forward to starting it this week.
Head over to As Kat Knits for a reading/crafting roundup.
February 16, 2021
top ten mardi gras-colored covers
posted by soe 1:52 am
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share ten books in the Mardi Gras colors of purple, yellow, and green. Honestly, I don’t love cover challenges and thought about sitting this one out. But it seemed like more work at the outset to finish my top ten reads of 2020 post, so I started pulling together library books, figuring that of the 20+ books I have out, surely half must fall into this category. Nope. And by then I was committed, so the rest of the books are from my personal TBR collection that didn’t require dismantling shelves in order to extricate. (Yes, I do realize that makes it less likely I’ll read those books. Your point?)
Anyway, in the end I found 10:
They are:
Top row: Fast Cakes by Mary Berry, Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams, Jake and Lily by Jerry Spinelli, Jo & Laurie by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz, and Everyday Cookies by Dorie Greenspan
Bottom row: The Runaway Princess by Johan Troïnowski, Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell, Selected Fables/Fables Choisis by Jean de La Fontaine, The Intrigue at Highbury by Carrie Bebris, and The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi
Have you read any of these?
February 11, 2021
lazy
posted by soe 1:46 am
I’ve been lazy this past week. (To be fair, I suppose there was also a lot of work, cake baking, and a visit with an old friend. But still… ) Please see last week’s post for the most recent knitting and reading works-in-progress. I’m a little further along in both, but really not enough to bother boring you with a photo.
I have a four-day weekend coming up, though, so I do anticipate having new progress to show you next week.