![]() If you'd like even more coronation crafts, don't miss our favourite coronation craft kits and our free knitting pattern to knit your own King Charles. If you're a beginner crafter, check out this super-easy no-sew bunting in our step-by-step video tutorial. This bunting requires a sewing machine so is best for intermediate stitchers who know how to sew and are looking to use their skills to create beautiful projects. The bunting is perfect for using fabric scraps from other sewing projects – or your favourite fat quarter fabrics. We love this stitched fabric bunting – string it across the table at your street party to pull your tablescape together. ![]() Whatsmore, it's the perfect opportunity to use your craft skills to create cute decorations. Whether you're throwing a huge street party or planning a smaller event for close family and friends, the long weekend is sure to be one to remember. Stitch by Mark Morris, March 28, 1991, Piatkus Books edition, Hardcover. And what better way to mark the beginning of this new chapter than with a coronation party? ![]() ![]() The nation is gearing up to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III on 6 May. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It has been a full year since the moon was struck by an asteroid, pushing its orbit closer to the Earth and unleashing a string of natural disasters. ![]() Needless to say, I anxiously awaited this third and final volume in the series with bated breath. Its companion novel, the dead and the gone was a close second. Life As We Knew It is one of my favorite novels, and was far and away the best book I had read in 2008. Why did I read this book: This is one of my all-time favorite series’ period. ![]() Stand alone or series: Book 3 in the “Last Survivors” (formerly referred to as the “Moon Crush”) trilogy Then a devastating tornado hits the town of Howell, and Miranda makes a decision that will change their lives forever. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, and as Miranda’s complicated feelings for him turn to love, his plans for his future thwart their relationship. The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda’s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. Genre: Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Young Adult ![]() ![]() ![]() Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she’s transgender. Read more about this title and its elements of trans rep from blogger Cheryl Morganĭanny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero. Read more about this title and its elements of trans rep from librarian Morgan Doherty More than that, she has to stop her predecessor’s murderer from destroying the world.Ĭheck out this book and more on our best of list for books with trans characters. Now she has to deal with suddenly coming out to everyone she knows, and the politics of being a superhero. ![]() Danny’s been trying to hide that she’s transgender, but when she inherits the powers of the world’s greatest superhero, her body is transformed into what she’s always thought it should be, revealing her secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() Second, the offputting book covers that make some of the editions look like bad airport fiction, which couldn’t be further from the truth that lies inside. Third is the fact that a lot of her work retreads similar territory: mostly, women being shoved into the ground by time, fate, small towns and smaller minds. First up, the sheer volume: more than 150 stories across fourteen collections since the late ’60s. ![]() There are a few things that make it difficult to know where to start with Munro’s catalogue. ![]() ![]() Loosely stringing together events, coincidences, fateful decisions and missed connections, often across decades, her stories combine everyday drudgery and occasional flashes of emotion with enough intensity to sear your heart like a juicy steak. Octogenarian, Canadian and one of only 15 women to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Munro writes very, very good short stories: micro-novels of rural or suburban life, occasionally linked by recurring characters or places. Well, if you’re up for exploring that feeling in more depth, there’s no one who articulates it better than Alice Munro. Stuck is something everyone is feeling right now – a weird blend of frustration, claustrophobia and longing for what might have happened if this hadn’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kind of book that is talked about long after the last page has been turned. James Scott Bell, best-selling author of Try Fear I'm looking forward to more from Jim Rubart." "A profound spiritual tale spun with imaginative flair. Robert Liparulo, best-selling author of Comes a Horseman Part The Screwtape Letters, part The Shack." But as he slowly discovers, the home isn’t just spiritual, it’s a physical manifestation of his soul, which God uses to heal Micah’s darkest wounds and lead him into an astonishing new destiny. This unnerves Micah because his faith slipped away like the tide years ago, and he wants to keep it that way. But Rick will only say the house is spiritual. When bizarre things start happening in the rooms of the home, Micah suspects they have some connection to his enigmatic new friend, Rick, the town mechanic. And after meeting Sarah Sabin at a nearby ice cream shop, he has two reasons to visit the beach every weekend. ![]() Suspecting a prank, Micah arrives at Cannon Beach to discover a stunning brand new nine-thousand square foot house. It claims a home awaits him on the Oregon coast that will turn his world inside out. ![]() On a rainy spring day in Seattle, young software tycoon Micah Taylor receives a cryptic, twenty-five-year-old letter from a great uncle he never knew. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And also to vindicate his mother, by seeing the mission through to its treacherous end." Now it’s Devin’s mission to destroy a covert network poised to deliver a fatal blow to the future of the United States. What he uncovers, clue by clue, is a conspiracy more widespread and insidious than anyone could have imagined. With the help of longtime friend and former Marine helicopter pilot Marnie Young and a loyal team of covert operatives Helen summoned just before her death, Devin is propelled into a high-stakes chase across the country. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe―a mission worth dying for. "Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The audiobook was a quick listen, and I enjoyed Austin Kleon's narration. I enjoyed it a lot!Īs an artist and creative human on the internet, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy felt like it was tailored directly to me and my life. Thank you NetGalley and Workman Audio for the copy of this audiobook. And if it grows or you want it to grow, here’s some helpful things to remember. It’s something you can keep on your phone and return to, easily.ĭo your art, share your work and just keep going, keep doing the stuff, the art you make that feeds your soul. So while this doesn’t have the same effect audio-wise, i think it’s a good comparison to the books. ![]() The book, rather the books in the trilogy are very visual and to me, appealing. It’s full of little gems and practical tips and tidbits from other artists that are really interesting. Not hidden away in your drawer or simply thrown away. Art can be made anyhow, anywhere, and usually is a hint of someone else’s work. And to keep going beyond that, though I may not make art my bread and butter. It’s a good listen for creative people and those who want to inject more creativity in their life. So when the opportunity to listen to the author read out all 3 books, I jumped at the chance - and thankfully was granted a copy. I enjoyed the first book, Steal Like an Artist before and read it every so often when I need some ideas to let the creative juices out. Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy by Austin KleonĤ.5 stars! And 3 books in one so. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think this is one of those books that is really written for adults, and not for 4-6 year olds. I found it confusing (not good in a picture book) and it took me a few tries to get through it. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that I'm the only person in the world who didn't like this book. so I'm changing my star rating of this one. I gave this book another try after listening to the discussion about it at the ALA Notable Committee. ![]() Well deserved! (The winner is Jonathan Bean's At Night.) ![]() ![]() It was just named an honor book in the picture book category of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. I see it as a picture book for children who can read very comfortably on their own - and should have no trouble seeing the humor in each scene. This story and concept, however, begs the sarcastic discrepancies done so perfectly here. I'm not saying that all picture books should do what the author/illustrator have done here - if all picture books are telling "two stories" with texts and pictures, then this one addition will be quite boring. But more over, it is a picture book that NEEDS to be read WITH the pictures. It is what I thought of as a quintessential American picture book - it is about summer camp, spending time with your best buddy, by the beach, with someone's grandparents, having a great time doing all sorts of stuff and some mischief under the grown-ups' noses. One Librarian Had the Best Reading Experience Ever with this wonderful title. ![]() ![]() ![]() Previous read ‘Fly on the Wall‘ was hilarious juvenile fiction… but ‘The Boyfriend List‘ was, well… babbly. ![]() Lockhart’s previous novels and thought the Ruby Oliver books would be a fun addition. Through a special assignment to list all the boys she’s ever had the slightest, little, any-kind-of-anything with, comes an unfortunate series of events that would be enough to send any girl in a panic. * and had graffiti written about her in the girls’ bathroom (who knows what was in the boys’!?!).īut don’t worry, Ruby lives to tell the tale. * became a social outcast (no one to sit with at lunch) * hurt Meghan’s feelings (even though they aren’t really friends) * lost a lacrosse game (she’s the goalie) ![]() * drank her first beer (someone handed it to her) * lost all her other friends (Nora, Cricket) But before you make up your mind about her, you should know that she has had a pretty awful (and eventful) past ten days. ![]() ![]() ![]() To read “Blood, Bones & Butter” is to marvel at Hamilton’s masterful facility with language. But as he admits in his jacket testimonial, she’s the superior writer by a mile. Hamilton, chef-owner of the tiny Greenwich Village restaurant Prune, shares two of Bourdain’s traits: a wicked, sometimes obscene sense of humor and a past checkered with drug use and crime. That quote, by the way, is from the previous title holder, Anthony Bourdain, whose 2000 blockbuster, “ Kitchen Confidential,” hilariously deglamorized restaurants while simultaneously feeding the fire of public obsession with celebrity chefs. Sure enough, Hamilton quickly proves that her decade-in-the-making work can live up to the extraordinary “best memoir by a chef ever” hype. Along with the title, it’s the first clue that Hamilton’s story will be visceral and possibly even revelatory. Turning the cover upside down reveals the unmistakable head - severed, one assumes - of a glaring, sharp-beaked rooster. Then you realize that the pearl is an eye and those frills are feathers. ![]() ![]() Is this the futuristic creation of some modernist chef? ![]() A strange image graces the cover of Gabrielle Hamilton’s luminous new memoir, “ Blood, Bones & Butter.” At first glance it might be an oyster, slipping off its half shell and nestled in some kind of grassy nest, with a pearl at its center and frills underneath. ![]() |