Re: A Dollop of Wisdom and Request for Good Book Recommendations
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Therese, we've just started watching the Ken Burns documentary on Country Music - we're 2 episodes in. If you missed it when it came out (like we did), it's worth watching!
Reading, I just started The Golden Thread - How Fabric Changed History.? I think it'll be good, but it's early on.? I enjoyed Olive Again (Elizabeth Strout), and The Confession Club (Elizabeth Berg).? Otherwise, it's been very lightweight mysteries for escape!
Diane
On Thursday, March 19, 2020, 4:01:43 PM PDT, Therese Shere <therese.shere@...> wrote:
I'm in that casting-about-for-the-right-book phase right now - it happens to me in distracted times like this. Finished Ben Lerner's The Topeka School a month ago and liked it a lot. Also just read (and indexed) a fantastic book about fungi - not mushrooms but the underground stuff - but it isn't out yet (title is Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake). Now I need something like Kinsella or Wodehouse, I think.
Definitely need good television and at-home movie recommendations too...every time we try a new show it proves to be depressing or downright horrifying. First episode of the highly-regarded series?"Unbelievable," for instance, about a rape and its aftermath. So NOT what I need at the moment.
I'm going to order a big pile of seeds and go seriously to work on a vegetable garden as soon as I get current indexing project off...thinking we may be needing it.?
Mary - my next stop is Virtual Yarns and Kate Davies Designs - you know, just to see how much kits would be today :-)
Stay well and busy, everyone. --Therese Thérèse Shere
Freelance indexing & digital information design
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:25 AM Ann McManus < mcmanusab@...> wrote: We’re watching Season 1 of Modus on PBS Passport right now. Swedish with English subtitles. So, we’re ready! ? ? ? The movie is excellent as well.? ? At the suggestion of DH, I read A Man Called Ove. He cried. I cried. Not sad tears, but not happy ones either. Notorious RBG is on my nightstand. Currently reading Lincoln in the Bardo. Very, very weird! ? Ann in PA ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaya Srikrishnan
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Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] A Dollop of Wisdom and Request for Good Book Recommendations ? I read the Dalai Lama's Cat on the recommendation of my SIL in India. It is funny and also educational about Buddhism? and being present from a cat's perspective. I have since read the third book - The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow and have the second one checked out and partially read? - The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Act of Purring. The second book is about happiness as seen through the eyes of the cat. The third book is about meditation. Lots of good insight in the two that I've read and they are especially good at this time. Light reading but lots to think about.? ? On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:51 AM mary_007usa via Groups.Io <sewgood5=[email protected]> wrote: Elizabeth Zimmermann:
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
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The Pound to Dollar ration is now $1.16 to 1 pound.? I ordered Na Craga in Selkie.? I know we're heading into summer.? I know wool 12 months a great so it works for me.
All of you can be relied upon for the best book recommendations, so let fly with some good ones.
I'm finishing up a nine book series by Upton Sinclair.? One of the books, Dragon's Teeth won the Pulitzer in 1943.? The series is about the devolution into WWII.? to read all of the titles has been a long road, but it's been a glorious ride.? I'll definitely up for a change of pace when I finish this last one.
Mary.
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