Oh boy, Mid-Century Modern Complete is very complete. The book is huge and beautiful and it made me want all of the things. It even had my beloved Boby trolleys in it. Oh how I want a Boby trolley. Or three. And also all of the couches and the posters and the chairs and the tables. Hell, a whole houseful of stuff.
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I impulsed picked The Modern Flower Painter because it was pretty and I love watercolors. The book is super pretty and super detailed and if you want to learn how to paint flowers, this is your book.
Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is fabulous if you want to improve your ability to draw and paint faces. Duh. Jane Davenport is fabulous, really. Great book (which explains why it’s constantly out of stock.)
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I should have looked more closely at Men Explain Things To Me since I assumed it was a bunch of essays about, you know, men explaining things to women. It wasn’t. A whole bunch of feminist essays loosely tied to men explaining things (as feminist essays often are) and while the essays were mostly fine, they weren’t really what I was hoping to read at that moment.
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I impulsed selected Alice + Freda Forever because I liked the font on the cover. I was also interested in reading more about this case. I’ve heard about it in passing but knew very little about it, really.
It was interesting. A little dry considering the subject matter. There was a lot of crazy going on back in the late 1800s and it wasn’t all just the Alice kind of crazy. Just sayin’.
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I’ve been talking a lot about having chickens someday… like next year, when we leave Chicagoland. During one of these periods when I was talking about chickens, my mom sent me a link to The Chicken Keeper’s Problem Solver and I said I’d have to check it out later since it was only available for pre-order.
Time passes and my mom texts me to tell me she sent me a present and it will arrive on Sunday. It did and it was that book!
I read it straight through and was reminded again of how little I know about chickens. Hah. Because I know so little about chickens, I’m not really sure if this is a good and useful book or not. It felt like a good and useful book, so I gave it 4 stars on Goodreads.
It also was a little bit scary of a scary book– because all the bad things can happen! Gah. I guess if bad things do happen, I’ll have this book to help me figure out how to solve the problem, right? Assuming this is a good and helpful book, which I think it probably is. I’ll let you know in a year or two.
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Explore Mixed Media Collage was pretty good. The projects themselves weren’t really my style and none of the techniques were new to me — but, it was a pretty book and there were bits and pieces of projects that I really liked and will probably end up doing myself, at some point.
Then, Leonard Nimoy died and TW said RESERVE ALL THE BOOKS so I reserved all the books available in my library system. Turns out the books she wanted weren’t in our library system so, poop. I’ve already seen a zillion images from The Full Body Project but figured what the heck — I have the book. Nimoy died. I’ll read it. And it was ok. I didn’t love it. I didn’t hate it. I’m not sorry I read it.
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I grabbed Pen & Ink from the new arrivals shelf just as an impulse pick — because I knew RJ would be at our house and I thought she might be interested in it. I think she read it. I’m not sure. But I very much loved it. The stories behind the tattoos were fabulous. Really good stuff (and a quick read, which was important after some very long work days.)
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I have no idea why Handmade Nation was on the new arrivals shelf at the library. It’s old, old, old, old. But there you have it. It was there. I was amused. I checked it out.
I was even more amused when I started reading it. Everyone was so young! All of those sites were so new! Things have really grown and changed!
I kept stopping to see if featured artists/crafters/makers were still doing the type of work that was featured in the book, (sometimes yes, sometimes no.)
I found myself watching old Craft Lab videos with Jennifer Perkins and giggling like crazy.
I enjoyed the stroll down memory lane. 😉
Total impulse pick up. The Green City Market Cookbook was ok. Not great. Might have been better during the spring or summer. Right now, ho hum. The weather isn’t making me feel at all interested in farmers markets. lol.
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Not a very auspicious start for the new year, eh? Four days in and I’ve just now finished the first book — a book I started reading about, oh, a month ago? No big deal — Nellie Taft (the book, not the woman) was a slow read and I’ve been busy doing all the things. My reading rate will pick up and drop off and pick up again. As usual. But, back to Nellie Taft…
I had high hopes for this biography but it was like too many biographies — a bit dull and textbook-like. Too bad since Nellie Taft was pretty darn interesting. Overall, I”m glad I read this one.