Category: book review

  I ‘discovered’ Joanna Johnson because she does short videos and they appear on the ‘reels’ on Facebook.  I watched one, and began to watch others.  Recently I found out that she has written a book and out of curiosity I ordered a copy.  It arrived this week and I thumbed through it. It’s a…

  I ‘discovered’ Joanna Johnson because she does short videos and they appear on the ‘reels’ on Facebook.  I watched one, and began to watch others.  Recently I found out that she has written a book and out of curiosity I ordered a copy.  It arrived this week and I thumbed through it. It’s a…

  I ‘discovered’ Joanna Johnson because she does short videos and they appear on the ‘reels’ on Facebook.  I watched one, and began to watch others.  Recently I found out that she has written a book and out of curiosity I ordered a copy.  It arrived this week and I thumbed through it. It’s a…

  I wound up fairly high on the request list at the library and started reading Guy Gavriel Kay’s latest book last night.   I’ve been ‘following’ GGK for a while, now, and I think I’ve read every novel he’s written.  I wait (not so patiently) for the next to be penned and published.  I would…

  For some reason I had been unaware of this book, published in 2014, until recently.  When I discovered my local library had it, I requested it because it was a book of essays on knitting (and other fibre crafts, as well.) All of the contributors are writers, and each of them has told a…

  This morning Facebook showed me this photo from 14 years ago. (my gawd have I really been on Facebook for *14* years????) As I looked at the photo I thought, hmm, I think I still have some of those towels in inventory. Sigh. Doug suggested that if I do, I should add them to…

  I just finished reading The Real Work; on the mystery of mastery by Adam Gopnik. It was not a quick read, in spite of being a fairly slim volume.  Some books look deceivingly ‘simple’ or ‘small’ but contain gems. Such was the case with this one. Gopnik talks a lot about ‘mastery’ and examines…

I’d not been aware of this book until a friend recommended one of his other titles to me.  The local library didn’t have that particular book in its collection, but it *did* have this one.  Since I’ve been intrigued by the concept of ‘mastery’ since I was a kid***, I put in a hold request…

  There is a certain amount of…hubris…involved in being a creative person as your profession. I mean, society is quick to tell someone when they have overstepped their boundaries, tried too much, failed in the process.   The internet seems to have ramped up that dynamic even more, perhaps because when you don’t like what someone…