Penguin Girl

I read a lot this past week, following are items I finished. I’m sad I missed Saturday evening’s food post.. I basically slept all weekend. I’ve been really tired lately (in answer to your questions: NO I’m not.) so I caved in and let myself sleep. It was marvelous. I’m impressed that I haven’t yet napped today.

I completed Anne McCaffrey’s Talent Series this past week by reading To Ride Pegasus, Pegasus in Flight, and Pegasus in Space. This is basically the background story to The Rowan. I highly recommend the entire world from the start of Pegasus through the stories of Damia’s children. I prefer the strength of the Rowan, but really enjoyed the history that led to Rowan’s world.

I had picked up Second Wave: Acorna’s Children in paperback at the library last week and devoured the continuing story of Acorna’s children. This was a fun read but it was difficult to switch back to what had lead to this particular plot. While it’s fun I am feeling that it’s been dragged on a bit to far. I don’t feel that there has been enough newness injected into the story (yet). When it arrives at the library I’ll pick up Third Wave.

I finished the two books I picked up at Interweave’s hurt book sale. They are both what I expected and I do wish from more and hope in time to fully annotate and add to them. In Sheep’s Clothing: A Handspinner’s Guide to Wool by Nola Fournier is a wonderful guide to all the types of wool, how to store it, and ideas for carding. Color in Spinning by Deb Menz is what I was looking for as I have no color theory background (music theory? definitely). I do wish there were more examples of painted roving to spun singles or plied yarn, but I now have some ideas and understand a bit better why some colours do the things they do, especially when combined with others. I’m still quite nervous I’ll turn my roving into mud, but brown is one of my favourite colours so I guess it’s ok. ;)

on this day...

• aleph - 2008