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Knitting Circle February 4th

Submitted by kids@bkwrks.com on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:31pm.

Hope everyone is having a good new year so far. I have gotten myself hooked on crochet! I am at the glorious stage of , "go, go, go oops rip, rip, rip"! But I know those even edges are just a few swatches away.

Bring the project you are working on currently and bring a fiber arts project you would like to show the group if you would like.

The Bookworks Knitting Group

Submitted by kids@bkwrks.com on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 3:42pm.

Thanks to the suggestion of a longtime Bookworks customer we have a knitting circle at the store. On the first Thursday of the month, at 10:30 a.m. we rearrange the furniture and knit amid the books! Our next meeting will be January 7th, 2010. We will have a mini-workshop on knitting left-handed. If this is a method you would like to learn, bring needles and yarn for a practice swatch or enough yarn to start a scarf. I am hoping to refresh my memory on how the left-handed purl stitch goes.

Happy Holidays from Contessa Connie

Submitted by kids@bkwrks.com on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 12:43pm.

Happy Holidays!

Hope your are having a fun holiday season! Even though I do pretty low key celebrations I love the holidays. Especially the lights, which I think are bountiful this year. I thank everyone who adds to the cheeriness.

My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal this year was a sweet potato pie a friend made for me. She can really bake! Her mother was a baker as well. Florence is doing her mom proud and her cooking is a blessing for those of us who receive pies and cakes.

I made Pumpkin Spice Vanilla Fudge from the Goulish Goodies Cookbook, by Sharon Bowers (Storey Publishing, 2009) at Halloween. Making fudge is part of my culinary history. I don't ride my bike or skate nearly enough to butter up the pan very often anymore but I'm going to make an extra exercise effort in September 2010 to make room for more pumpkin fudge!

Talk with Jacqueline Kelly

Submitted by kids@bkwrks.com on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 12:51pm.

We had a lovely visit with Jacqueline Kelly the author of The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.

After her presentation, I talked with her for a few minutes andasked her what her wish for Calpurnia Tate, the character, is, and as wewould wish for anyone who has become a friend (and I imagine characterscan become like friends to an author), she wishes her well. She repliedthat Calpurnia "has many battles ahead but she's going to make it. She's going to be all right." If we are lucky as readers, Ms.

New Releases This Month


Crashers (Hardcover) By Dana Haynes $24.99 Haynes's compelling first thriller takes familiar elements—a mysterious airplane crash, a bent FBI agent, a deadly female spy—and mixes them with the world of National Transportation Safety Board aviation disaster investigations. When pathologist Leonard Tommy Tomzak, sees a TV report of a nearby jetliner crash, he rushes to the site via helicopter. As other NTSB personnel make their way to the crash scene from around the country, Tommy and his local crew secure the site. The forensic details fascinate but aren't for the weak of stomach. Haynes nicely integrates several subplots involving terrorism. The slam-bang crash landing of a conclusion will leave readers anxiously awaiting the promised sequel

Crashers (Hardcover)

By Dana Haynes

$24.99

Haynes's compelling first thriller takes familiar elements—a mysterious airplane crash, a bent FBI agent, a deadly female spy—and mixes them with the world of National Transportation Safety Board aviation disaster investigations. When pathologist Leonard Tommy Tomzak, sees a TV report of a nearby jetliner crash, he rushes to the site via helicopter. As other NTSB personnel make their way to the crash scene from around the country, Tommy and his local crew secure the site. The forensic details fascinate but aren't for the weak of stomach. Haynes nicely integrates several subplots involving terrorism. The slam-bang crash landing of a conclusion will leave readers anxiously awaiting the promised sequel

Indie Next List Great Reads - in eBooks

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Tokyo Fiancee (Paperback) By Amelie Nothomb, Alison Anderson (Translator) $15.00 After reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, I stumbled across this book, a translation by the same woman who translated Barbery's novel. I read two pages quickly, out of curiosity, and promptly fell in love. Tokyo Fiancee is the memoir of Amelie Nothomb and a brief relationship she had with a Japanese man while teaching French in Japan. It's completely disarming - particularly East-meets-West interludes like her boyfriend's clinical experiment with fondue - and as soon as I finished it, I bought and read two of her other titles. If you liked The Elegance of the Hedgehog, this is a short, charming follow-up.

Tokyo Fiancee (Paperback)

By Amelie Nothomb, Alison Anderson (Translator)

$15.00

After reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, I stumbled across this book, a translation by the same woman who translated Barbery's novel. I read two pages quickly, out of curiosity, and promptly fell in love. Tokyo Fiancee is the memoir of Amelie Nothomb and a brief relationship she had with a Japanese man while teaching French in Japan. It's completely disarming - particularly East-meets-West interludes like her boyfriend's clinical experiment with fondue - and as soon as I finished it, I bought and read two of her other titles. If you liked The Elegance of the Hedgehog, this is a short, charming follow-up.

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