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destination unknown april 2013 sunday april 21 2013 tea and a book a life in stitches this week s tea is earl grey my favourite it helps keep me warm on these cold spring days will the warm part of spring ever really come this week i m focusing on non fiction a life in stitches knitting my way through love loss and laughter by rachael herron i took this book out of the toronto public library if you click on the image of the book it will bring you to the canadian amazon site for the us amazon link click here i ve never read any of rachael herron s cypress hollow fiction books how to knit a love song and others and i can t remember why i ordered a life in stitches i must have read about it on someone s blog but i thoroughly enjoyed it i like reading about why people knit or paint or sew or scrapbook this book is written in 20 essays not chronological nor do they need to be they tell a story of how rachael came to knitting how it stuck with her through thick and thin and how she made a career out of her two loves writing and knitting not her only loves they are the kind of stories that keep you turning the pages and saying tell me more this book has inspired me to dig out some yarn that i thought i d never use and knit it up uhh it s a sparkly teal mohair blend i m going to make a cardigan i ve never tried one all that i ve been knitting for the last few years has been socks and more recently cotton dish cloths i don t know how she did it but rachael somehow inspired me to challenge myself a bit if you re a woman and you like to knit you ll like this book if you re crafty you ll like this book mr b you might like this book mr b knits i ve ordered rachael s first fiction book from the library i ll keep you posted rachael s blog yarn a go go is here there is currently a call out on her blog to help make a love blanket or two for members of one of the victims of the boston bombing if you knit and can send an 8x8 square to rena in the us a who will sew together the squares please head over to this post seriously an 8x8 square doesn t take long hello dishcloth and you can help make a fuzzy hug for someone whose life has been rippe d apart f ib re and colour are your choice but dk or worsted are best posted by martha brown at 12 00 3 comments labels a life in stitches boston marathon bombing cypress hollow knitting love blanket rachael herron wednesday april 17 2013 it saddens me when the arts are undervalued we ve just found out that the toronto district school board is slashing the itinerant music program band strings orff vocal recorder steel pan drums before the trustees are informed or able to vote on this drastic change of policy to save a tiny portion of their budget they are planning to drastically reduce the quality of music education for students by laying off the expert music educators it s heartbreaking and shortsighted my school uses these programs each year and we will miss them terribly if they are taken away it only takes a minute to sign the petition below and your support will make a difference http www thepetitionsite com 841 524 940 stop the itinerant music program cuts in the toronto district school board thank you posted by martha brown at 18 53 4 comments sunday april 14 2013 tea and a book the dog stars today s tea hmmm what does one drink when discussing the end of our world a nice calming passionflower perhaps have you read the road by cormac mccarthy i have seen the movie i haven t it was one of the most bleak and depressing books that i have ever read i liked it i couldn t put it down but it left me with a sense of despair and not much hope the dog stars by peter heller is of a similar genre a post apocalyptic tale of survival this book while terribly sad gave me more hope not hope that i would make it in a scenario like this though i m pretty sure that i would be gone in the early days i give this book 5 stars out of 5 for the hope and the poetic writing nine years after a flu like virus has decimated the population hig has eked out an existence with his best friend his dog jasper his wife family friends gone he lives in an abandoned well everywhere is abandoned now airport alongside gun toting somewhat antisocial bangley they have a strange symbiotic relationship and do fairly well surviving and protecting themselves and each other remember that come the apocalypse we will all be fighting each other for food and fuel hig is a former recreational pilot so he is able to fly a cessna out and around the vicinity to explore and survey the area hig is lonely and keeps remembering a voice that came on his plane radio years ago from a town city a long flight away unfortunately the town is too far away to fly to and back from without refueling so hig has never risked it but that voice continues to gnaw at his mind should he take the chance could there be something like his old life out there what is left in the world i see now that i need to make friends with some ex navy seals although you know that i just have to look at someone with the flu and i get it i will not be one of the survivors but when i read stephen king s the stand so many years ago i thought that i had some promise i think that i will revisit that book again soon meanwhile i ll stockpile my olive oil good source of calories and keep my treadle sewing machine in good repair if you liked the stand and or the road you will definitely like the dog stars if you want to know what our world could be like after the bird flu and a blood borne virus kill most of us read on it is a story of love loss hope and the unlikely friendships that we make when our lives are falling apart why do we read these books about the end of our world to scare ourselves as preparation for an uncertain future to make our current lives feel so much better music to listen to while you re drinking that tea one of my favourite end of the world stories was an episode of twilight zone time enough at last you can watch the whole half hour episode here posted by martha brown at 08 00 4 comments labels peter heller rem the dog stars the end of the world the road the stand time enough at last wednesday april 10 2013 tea and a book i ve been trying to catch up on my reading lately i currently read a few books a week one fiction and one non fiction for the past few years i ve been listing the books that i ve read on my sidebar see it over there i ve decided to do a weekly book review here on the blog i m doing book reviews for parents bi weekly on my teaching blog so i ll see if i can keep it up i m going to call it tea and a book and will try to post i t every sunday if you would like my opinion on any of my past reads please ask i have a really good sense of what i will like to read so my reviews might seem like i like every book ever written bu t really i don t like to waste my time so i choose carefully what is your most recent great read check back on sunday for this week s review the dog stars by peter heller recommended to me by my friend don madden over at fully flummoxed posted by martha brown at 21 04 3 comments newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom about me martha brown toronto canada canada i am a mixed media collage artist early years educator reader stitcher blogger music lover tea drinker crossfitter mother daughter partner friend and now mimmie to my little grandpeanut baby g view my complete profile my teaching blog ms brown s classroom learning and playing in kindergarten my crossfit blog destination rx my adventures in crossfit one of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries a a milne my favourite online mags inspired ideas the christmas issue lonny rue sweet paul best design blogs beach bungalow decor8 decorology poppytalk a year of fiction 2014 i m now giving a rating to books that i have read so you don t blame me for the stinkers on the list m a real stinker sorry that i wasted my time m i like it a bit much mm i pretty much liked this book mmm i loved it muchly much and would add it to my collection a year of fiction 2014 the magicians land lev grossman september mm summer house with swimming pool herman koch september mm the bear claire cameron september mmm 1q84 haruki murakami august mmm the serpent of venice christopher moore july mm annabel kathleen winter july mmm the deception of livy higgs donna morrissey july mmm speaking from among the bones alan bradley july mmm the tiger claw shauna singh baldwin july mmm the book thief markus zusak july mmm the dinner herman koch june mm still life with breadcrumbs anna quindlen june mm crimes against my brother david adams richards june mmm the execution of noa p singelton elizabeth l silver may mmm bad monkeys matt ruff may m the goldfinch donna tartt may mmm all my puny sorrows miriam toews april mm burnese lessons karen connelly march mmm the fault in our stars john green march mmm patchwork planet re read anne tyler march mmm after her joyce maynard march mm the good mayor andrew nicoll march m major pettigrew s last stand helen simonson february mmm me before you jojo moyes february mmm galore michael crummey february mmm the radleys matt haig january mmm too close to home linwood barclay january mm lily s valley libby broadbent january mm silver linings playbook matthew quick january mmm a year of fiction 2 2013 apocalypse cow michael logan october a year of fiction 2013 maddaddam margaret atwood october the year of the flood reread margaret atwood october oryx and crake reread margaret atwood september where d you go bernadette maria semple september the magician king lev grossman september the magicians lev grossman august and the mountains echoed khaled hosseini august the brief wondrous life of oscar wao junot diaz august the cat s table michael ondaatje july that thing that happened libby broadbent july earth unaware orson scott card and aaron johnson july the 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared jonas jonasson june speaking from among the bones alan bradley ya june i am half sick of shadows alan bradley ya june a red herring without mustard alan bradley ya may this is how you lose her junot diaz may the weed that strings the hangman s bag alan bradley ya may the sweetness at the bottom of the pie alan bradley ya may the next queen of heaven gragory maguire april before i go to sleep s j watson april dog stars peter heller april flight behavior barbara kingsolver april the unlikely pilgrimmage of harold fry rachel joyce march tell the wolves i m home carol rifka brunt march the light between oceans m l stedman march thirteen reasons why jay asher march pillars of the earth ken follet february the homecoming of samuel lake jenny wingfield january the snow child eowyn ivey january talk funny girl roland merullo january a year of nonfiction 2013 organizing the disorganized child martin l kutcher marcella moran april dinner a love story jenny rosenstrach april nurture 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