theyellowhobbit

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Bring my suitcase to be fixed
Call to set up appointments
Sort through my old clothes to see what I should keep or give away
Read Top Secret Books
Compile Top Secret Bibliography

At this point, all I need to do is the stuff for Ben. And there's going to be a craft fair at my parents' shul in October, so I'm going to get a table and sell my stuff, so I need to do the knitting and crocheting for that. Maybe I can hand-spin some yarn if there are any knitters there. And if things don't sell, then I'll be way ahead in making Channukah presents!

Huzzah for only having to read and knit for the rest of the summer, except for when I'm working.

19. Lois McMaster Bujold- The Curse of Chalion
I'm just gonna link you to the Wikipedia page for it, because it's hard to summarize. But I really liked it. And I found out that there are 2 more books that follow it, so I went and ordered those online.

20. Neil Gaiman- American Gods
This one is just plain weird. It's about a guy named Shadow who just finished serving his prison sentence and becomes an errand-boy for this guy Wednesday, who is actually a god. Wednesday is trying to round up all the other old gods in a war against the new gods (like TV, technology, etc). It also has a lot of random interludes about people coming to America. I really liked it, though as a warning there are a couple of explicit sex scenes.

21. Diana Galbadon- Dragonfly in Amber
The second book in the outlander series.

22. Diana Wynne Jones- The Merlin Conspiracy
Very much in Diana Wynne Jones fashion this "sequel" to Deep Secret isn't really a sequel, though Nick is a main character in this book, and it's also about magids and traveling between different worlds. Basically, this girl Roddy and her friend Grundo discover an evil plot in their kingdom, and need someone to help them stop it, since no one in their world will believe them. And then there's Nick, who accidentally travels between worlds and is trying to find out more about it/learn how to be a magid/get out of the predicaments he gets himself into, and he gets sucked into the whole helping Roddy and Grundo out thing. I'm really bad at this summarizing thing, aren't I?

23. Lauren Willig- The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
This is sorta a historical-fiction about a woman named Eloise who is trying to finish up her dissertation on three European heroic spies: The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Purple Gentian, and the Pink Carnation. Though most of the book is not focused on her, but rather the characters that she is studying, and is set in their time. Amy (who is about 21 I think) and her cousin Jane (maybe 15?) set off to France in order to help the Purple Gentian overthrow Napoleon's government and stop his invasion of England and restore the monarchy. And then there's romance between Amy and the Purple Gentian/Lord Richard Selwick (though she doesn't know that Selwick is actually the Purple Gentian. The reader finds that out in the beginning, so I'm not giving anything away). I really liked it. A.S. gave it to me to read, and if anyone wants it, she said I could pass it on.

24. Debbie Macomber- A Good Yarn
This is about the owner of a yarn store and the 3 people in her sock-knitting class, and all of their lives and how they intertwine. It's actually the sequel of The Shop on Blossom Street which I actually haven't read. It's pretty well-written except for the parts where she references the first book, since those were pretty choppy. But I think even non-knitters could appreciate this book.

25. J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Obviously I can't say much here, though you all should have read it by now. I liked it, except that the epilogue was kinda rushed and if she was bothering to put it in, she should have expanded it.