Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Finished my first TBR Challenge book. Today is the last day to sign up for the challenge or to edit the lists so I also went in and made sure I was happy with my choices.
This is an anthology of short stories that was created to help support SHELTER, which is an organization that fights homelessness in the UK. It's got quite a diverse bunch of stories, some more chilling and memorable than the others. Even some of the bigger names in horror fiction like Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman and Christopher Fowler submitted their work.
One of my favorites was Adam's Choice by Mary Corran in which a dying man goes to a sort of psychic to find out who he can be reborn as, he gets three choices but only a short time with each one to choose, and has to make his choice based on very limited information.
I'm trying to get names together to send it around as a bookray on Bookcrossing, so far I only have three takers, all in Europe. I guess Americans just don't care about English horror. Not sure what challenge book I'm going to pick up next, in the meantime I need to finish the book I'm reading because I'm sending it out as a surprise, and then I have two books to read for bookgroups. One is an online bookgroup where I'm testing the waters, it seems a little stuffy and highbrow to me. The majority of posters appear to take themselves very, very seriously. The book discussions are interesting, I'm just wondering if one were to post a dissenting opinion or not be quite up to the grammar police standards (where did that extra comma come from?) if one would be chastised. For that group I'm reading Arthur and George by Julian Barnes.
The other group is a real life bookgroup that I discovered through Bookcrossing. I'm deliriously happy to have discovered one in my area. I went to my first meeting last night, and I really liked the group, and they seem to read quite a diverse set of books so it looks very promising. The Innocent Man by John Grisham was chosen for the next meeting, and I just so happen to have a copy on my TBR pile.
I think I must be channeling You Knit What, because I came across a link to this delightful sweater which creeps me out. From the dangling threads, to the - what the hell is that? is it a stain or just bad lighting? on the model's skirt, the sweater is just not all that attractive. Sometimes just because you can knit something doesn't mean you should.
As far as my knitting is concerned, I've made another dishcloth in entrelac, which came out very nicely and I've got a pair of socks on the needles. I'm using a pattern from Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks which I've only had to modify a little to fit my size 10 feet.
Dave has the camera today, our central heating unit went out last night and he used it to take some pictures of the parts he thinks are the culprits to take with him to purchase new. I hope he's able to get it fixed, it would be nice to not have to spend the money to replace it right at this moment.
edited by Sarra at 10:24 AM 01/31/2007
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