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Weekend Recap

iliana Nightstand October 13, 2013

I hope you’ve all enjoyed the weekend. I don’t think I did as much as I had planned and my bookbinding plans were pretty much thrown out the window but it was a very good weekend anyway. We started off Saturday with a bike ride to a local coffee shop. I have a new bike! So excited for my new comfy bike. The plan was to do another bike ride on Sunday but we’ve been having a lot of rain so another day.

I do have a bit of bookbinding news and that is that you can now also find my journals at Artisans Connect Gallery, in Georgetown. I am looking forward to visiting the new Georgetown Art Center in the next coming weeks. I’ll take some pictures and report back.

In book news, I finished Dracula. Loved it. I’ll put more thoughts on it later for it’s own post. As Alice Munro was just awarded the Noble Prize in literature I thought I’d go to Half Price Books for a bit of a browse and see if I could find any of her books. No luck in finding any of her books which I hope means a lot of people have been looking for them but I found a couple of books I had to have.

I bought When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo. I have not read anything for the Japanese literature reading challenge and although I have some books to choose from this one sounded very interesting.

My second book was Thornyhold by Mary Stewart. I’ve seen her books mentioned by many of you and I thought it’d be fun to discover her.

So that’s the news around here. I have a super busy week at work and a dear friend is in town this week so my postings may be a bit hit or miss this week but we’ll see. Hope you have a great week ahead!

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A Quick Note

iliana Nightstand October 9, 2013

Just taking a couple of extra days away from the blog. It’s been such a busy week at work and home. I’m so ready for the weekend, how about you?

Also, I don’t know where I’ve been but I just realized Dewey’s Read-a-Thon is this weekend! I really want to participate but I’ve got lots of books waiting to be made so in between cutting, sewing and gluing I hope to do some reading but I’ll have to wait until the next read-a-thon. For all of you participating, have a blast!

Hope you all have a great rest of the week and weekend. More book talk soon!

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Some New Books

iliana Nightstand October 8, 2013

Some new books have come in over the past couple of weeks but I’ve been busy trying to keep my studio tables free for bookbinding projects that I think I put some of the new books away without even doing a proper post on them. Here are the ones I was just about to move to the side (you can ignore the papers & beads around):

Killer’s Island by Anna Jansson is part of the Stockholm Text Crime Series. Set in Gotland, Sweden, this thrillers starts with when a young nurse is found murdered, dressed up as a bride. The discovery awakens an old Nordic myth, forcing Detective Maria Wren to come face-to-face with an intricate web of tangled relationships and evil schemes. Sounds good to me.

Next is Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte. Yes, that Napoleon. The tragic tale of Clisson and Eugenie reveals one of history’s great leaders as an accomplished writer of fiction. Did you guys know this? I had no idea. Must say I’m intrigued.

Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough is according to the blurb on the back, a sensational fact-based thriller set in shadow, gas-lit London, where monsters stalk the cobbled streets and hide in plain sight. I don’t need to know more to know that I want to read this book.

And, the last book is Delia’s Shadow by Jaime Lee Moyer. From the dust jacket: It is the dawn of a new century in San Francisco, and Delia Martin is a wealthy young woman whose life appears ideal. But a dark secret colors her life, for Delia’s most loyal companions are ghosts, as she has been gifted (or some would say cursed) with an ability to peer across to the other side. This sounds like a great choice for the R.I.P. Challenge don’t you think?

Alright, let me know if you’ve read some of these and what you thought. I am off to catch up on my reading!

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