more acorna and some rereading & what’s on deck
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I’m quite slow updating my sidebar info these days. I finished two more of the Acorna series by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna’s Search and Acorna’s Rebels. All I have left of this series is Acorna’s Triumph. Overall this has been a fun series as I see myself as Acorna to some degree — a misfit trying to fit in with her people, deal with emotions (aka love), and leave the world a little better without wearing myself too thin by helping every little one that crosses my path. Next up after this is the Acorna’s Children series.. and I need to do some research as to what else I have yet to read by these authors (as I have read most of Pern).
I reread One Skein by Leigh Radford this weekend in an attempt to see what stash busting I could do and for baby gift ideas. I definitely have a much more positive feel for the book this time (I had been pretty harsh on the one-skein books my first time around) as I have much more one skein purchasing experience. I’m not really sure what I will be knitting from it if anything, but it did remind me that lots of nice things can be created for less than a skein. I’ll be looking up the other books with the same theme in the coming weeks. I’ve terribly fallen off the “knit from your stash” (er, don’t buy more) bandwagon and I need to make some headway into it. I apologize in advance to all the yarn store owners (brick and mortar or online) that I’m avoiding.
There are three books I’m currently reading which if I had nothing else to do I would attempt to read all three simultaneously and finish them and then reread them again. If I could afford to, I would own all three (my copies are currently on loan from the library) and buy sets for all my friends. They are:
- How to be a Graphic Designer without Losing your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy (books.google) (powells)
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (books.google) (powells)
- Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman’s Life by Joan Gould (powells)
I’m going to stop now so I can complete some other work and get my nose back in those books.
