Two Days and a Yarnie Post

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Finished putting together a new yarn yesterday, The Dancing Tree:



and then promptly made up a post about the travails it has put me through...well, okay. Not that bad. But in a common way...there is some very ugly yarn in that skein, though the other strands mask it... More pictures that-a-way! Also, the revelation of what fandom it is, if you can't guess from the name...
And the picture above is a magic portal to it's place in my shop...

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Day 20

So spill...what do you read when you're in a junk-food mood?

 Meg Cabot, Jennifer Crusie, Georgette Heyer...stories where funny people get together.  I reread books, too, but that more depends on what I haven't read in a long time. Shojo one-shots. L. M. Montgomery.

Day 21

What books seem like spring books to you?

Blue Castle (L.M. Montgomery) technically spans all seasons, but the very lushness of the description of nature, the importance of its presence, the fact that the forest is one of the main characters makes it feel like spring--and the book's denouement takes place in spring, too.

Howl's Moving Castle also isn't set only in the spring, but the warmth of the descriptions -- bread, seasides, flowers and hats, honey, and stars falling -- make it feel like the unfolding of life at the beginning of the year.

Both are about the renaissance of a life, as well--young women throwing off a life that is more stricture than structure, a circle of people who mean well (or mean to act properly) but are actually crushing their spirits.

Personally, autumn makes me feel that way, but thematically, that's still spring-like. :)

Emma which is the most subversively clever books Austen wrote--I swear, rereading it with an analytical mind to see all the layers of humor going on was revelatory to me... Jane Austen never wrote the same kind of book a second time. Which is why it's hard to love all her books equally.

Ombria in Shadow (Patricia McKillip) which is unusual: her books feel rife with the dying riches of autumn, but this one also feels like an emerging from winter.