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Alberto Manguel. I loved his A History of Reading, so this was a must-read for me. Manguel re-reads twelve favorite books over the course of a year, keeping a commonplace book as he goes.
I don’t like people summing up books for me. Tempt me with a title, a scene, a quotation, yes, but not with [...]

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A Swarthmore College professor has created these Textbook disclaimer stickers.
(Link via Bookslut.)

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Bookfinder reports that The Principles of Knitting by June Hiatt, a “Voluminous reference on knitting techniques”, is the tenth-most-requested out of print book of 2004: BookFinder.com Journal: Top 10 out of print books of 2004.
(thanks to H2Oboro library blog.)

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Fabulous post at Velveteen Rabbi that could have been written about Quakers.

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I haven’t posted about knitting in a long time. Earlier this fall I made a pumpkin cap for my nephew Russell. It’s quite a cute hat, and I learned a nice technique in the way the little brim is made. I’m adapting it for a Christmas hat I put on the needles yesterday. Here we [...]

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Gene Wolfe. It may be sword-and-sorcery fantasy with a teen protagonist, but that doesn’t make it young adult fiction. It’s a challenging, multi-layered world Wolfe has created (with clear borrowings from Christian and Norse mythologies, at a minimum). The second volume has just been published, and I look forward to reading it.

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Susanna Clarke. A magnificent 782-page read. Twists and turns abound in a magical (literally) history of England. A wonderful, early passage has an interesting take on book reviews:
“Besides,” said Mr Norrell, “I really have no desire to write reviews of other people’s books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, [...]

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