Why Your Life Sucks by Alan Cohen In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit I didn’t finish this book. And this review isn’t going to be very fair, because I’m going to rant about the genre as a whole. Alan Cohen didn’t invent the touchy-feely new age self-help book, but he did …
2011 archive
Apr 18
Book Review: Happy Gloves
Happy Gloves: Charming Softy Friends Made from Colorful Gloves by Miyako Kanamori I really wanted to like this book, because it would be a great project for my daughter’s Girl Scout troop, and knit gloves are on sale for 50 cents a pair at Target this time of year. The book has brightly colored photos …
Apr 18
Clarion Write-a-Thon Swag Magnets
These are a close-up of a set of magnets I made to donate to the Clarion Write-a-Thon efforts. They’re made from one of the keyboards donated to the Datamancer/Clarion Keyboard project. Specifically, they’re from Walter Jon Williams’ keyboard. I’m going to make a second set as well. To make these, I started with bottlecaps that …
Apr 16
Book Review: The Princessa
The Princessa : Machiavelli for Women by Harriet Rubin This was recommended to me by a friend of a friend, and since it was short and easy to read, I put it to the top of my reading queue. It’s a philosophy book, sort of, and a how-to book, sort of, and a self-help book, …
Apr 14
Book Review: The Shamer’s Daughter
The Shamer’s Daughter by Lene Kaaberbol My middle-grade daughter really loved this series and told me I had to read it. Let me start off by saying that if I had read this when I were in junior high, I would have adored it. It has everything I loved back then: a magical young girl …