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Location: Cambridge MA USA
In My Own Words:
Professional concert violist, chamber musician, cat lover, quilter, knitter, world traveller, reader, writer, teacher.
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This is one of my very favorite knitting books! The colors and designs are gorgeous, the format is pleasing, and I just love to look at the pictures for color inspiration. I am a somewhat experienced knitter, I love knitting in the round (no seams to sew after the project is finished!) and I love to make colorful hats, which I sell at crafts fairs, so for me it's a perfect book. All the designs use worsted weight yarn and #7 or 8 needles, so the hats knit up fast. I agree however that it's not ideal for knitting beginners, although with hands-on help from a more experienced knitter it should be possible. I have come across some minor errors - another reason it's more appropriate for… Read more
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I really enjoyed this mystery, and while it followed (in a satisfying way) some of the traditions of the genre, it also avoided a lot of the cliches through the depiction of interesting, non-stereotypical characters and relationships. Strangers stuck on an inhospitable island together, unexplained accidents and mysterious deaths, the haunting sound of bag pipes coming across the water, a brewing storm - these all come together to provide pleasantly shivery reading. The reader of the audio version has a lovely lilting voice, and while it's a little odd to have her speaking in the voice of the American female protagonist's diary, she does a great job with the Scottish accents!
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It's been said before and I'll say it again - this book is very helpful for people who want to clear the clutter out of their lives but have trouble getting rid of anything. I bought it several years ago and found myself underlining almost every other sentence. Earlier this year I signed up for "FlyLady" (an online support group for people with messy homes) which has been very helpful, but I found that if I supplement my "FlyLady" work with daily readings from this book, the combination of the two is very powerful. (I agree that the chapter on colonic cleansing is a strange aberration in an otherwise wonderfully helpful book.) I continue to re-read it whenever I feel myself getting bogged… Read more
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