Here’s to my mum! Thanks to her, I now have 101 (I counted) gently used scifi and fantasy books. Apparently her library is cutting down on their scifi section and replacing it with an expanded large print section. Their loss is my gain. Some of the authors include classics like Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, William Gibson, Frank Herbert, Alan Dean Foster, Harlan Ellison, and Greg Bear. Some of the other authors (whom I’ve never heard of, though perhaps that makes me the scifi version of a hermit) include C. J. Cherryh, Poul Anderson, and too many others for me to track down. Some fantasy books snuck in there too, so I now have a few more Marion Zimmer Bradley books, some Tanith Lee, and a volume of stories by Peter S. Beagle. Apparently I was right to procrastinate buying my own copy of The Last Unicorn. Go me. I’ll post some pictures later, just to get a sense of the scale.
I also bought several batches of yarn, after a long dry spell. From Dizzy Sheep (it’s like Woot, but for yarn lovers), I’m getting some Soft Linen, probably for a tee shirt of some sort (the Victoria Yoke Pullover, perhaps?). I already got some Happy Feet sock yarn from them about a month back in two different colors. Thanks to Emily (I tested those Skyline Mittens for her), I got a gift certificate to The Loopy Ewe, which boasts one of the largest collections of sock yarn I’ve ever seen (and some of the prettiest…it’s like a Mecca for sock knitters and hand dyed yarn enthusiasts). After some careful consideration, I decided to splurge on some Kypria sock yarn (from The Sanguine Gryphon, SanguineGryphon on Ravelry) and some Crystal Palace Panda Cotton (in case the wool socks I plan to make are too itchy). There were some cashmere blends that nearly got me, but I held firm. I can get those later. When I’ve used up my current stash.
Whew…that was a lot of links. And if you’re not on Ravelry, they probably don’t make a lot of sense. Oh well. If you’re not on Ravelry and you do anything with yarn, go and sign up now. There are 300,000 of us now. Embrace the peer pressure!