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Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time, by...

Though my reading tastes vary widely, I thought I would review some of my favorite knitting books this week. Some are good reads, some have great patterns, some have beautiful pictures, and some have...

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The Knitting Circle, by Ann Hood

Mary Baxter’s life has fallen apart. Her five-year-old daughter Stella has died from meningitis and it is as if all hope and happiness has flown out of Mary’s life. She can’t work; she and her husband...

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Things I Learned from Knitting…whether I wanted to or not, by Stephanie...

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, otherwise known as the Yarn Harlot, is well-known in the world of Knitters. She started with a blog, the Yarn Harlot, which features her tongue-in-cheek musings about knitting,...

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One-Skein Wonders: 101 Yarn-Shop Favorites, edited by Judith Durant

I have a condition that many knitters suffer from: knitting ADD. No sooner do I knit a few inches on a big project than I get itchy to start an entirely new one. The excitement of starting something...

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Mason Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters Guide—Stories, Patterns, Advice,...

Mason Dixon Knitting is another book born out of a blog. The two authors met on a chat group for Rowan yarns and developed a friendship, despite living on opposite ends of the U.S. The friendship...

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Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan

Bring on the Shorts! It may still be too chilly to wear shorts outside, but this week I’m sharing some great collections of short stories, in honor of springtime. The short stories in Lanagan’s Black...

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Pretty Monsters, by Kelly Link

This terrific anthology of short stories caught my eye in our Young Adult collection the other day. Equal parts fantasy and horror genre, I was impressed with how complicated and mature these stories...

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Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance, by Matthew Kneale

This series of short stories takes the reader around the globe, to a diversity of places, but all are set in our modern era and each deals with a morally ambiguous situation in some way. This is not,...

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Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is one of my favorite non-fiction writers. He usually writes about food, with a firm grasp of science and sociology, but with a journalist’s eye towards readability. Imagine my delight...

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The Eternal Smile, by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim

Our last book this week is a collection of three short stories told in graphic novel form. In the last couple of years I have discovered how much I enjoy graphic novels. This format contains stories...

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