Instructional Videos: Knitting & Crochet

Youtube isn’t merely a source for music videos, trailers, and the most recent internet phenomenon. It is also an excellent source for instructional videos of all sorts. You can learn everything from martial arts moves to how to tie a Double Windsor knot in your tie. I run the Knitting Circle here [...]

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13 Vampire Books

Thursday Thirteen #34
Well, It’s been an eventful week. I finally started the Twilight series and I was in a car accident over the weekend. (These two events are not in any way related, though, in case you are curious.) So, while I’m stuck at home recovering I thought I’d offer you a [...]

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Don’t Worry Bear

Friendship is one of life’s sustaining pleasures, but what do you do when your friends are far away? Or even worse, what do you do when your friend is a caterpillar and he’s gone into a cocoon? You watch over your friend, of course: in the dark, in the wind, in the rain. And even [...]

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Are you ready for school?

Summer is coming to an end. There is only about a week left for everyone to pack up all those fun or boring summer memories and get ready for a new school year. School supplies, check. MAZE day, check. Class schedules or placement lists, check. Get up early, almost. Visit your local library, not yet.
Visit [...]

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Yet More Book Adaptations

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold (book) is in development now for AMC. It is rumoured that the project will be ready for the 2009 pilot season.
The film rights for Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series have been optioned by Universal Pictures. They are reportedly planning to start with book one, [...]

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Thirteen Things in the Solar System

Thursday Thirteen #33
My husband recently got a job working with NASA. I adore NASA, so you can imagine how happy this makes me. This week I bring you Thirteen Things in our Solar System in his honor.

13 Things in the Heavens:
1. The Sun – Our very own star doesn’t seem to have [...]

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Betsy Who Cried Wolf

Everyone knows the story of the boy who cried wolf, right? But what happens when the wolf crier isn’t a boy, but a Betsy, and the wolf isn’t just any old wolf, but a Zimmo? And Zimmo is a hungry wolf indeed, starving actually. He’s so hungry, in fact, that he’s come up with a [...]

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never enough vampire books

Are you number 98 on the hold list for Breaking Dawn, the last book in Stephnine  Meyer’s Twilight  series?  What  will you read while you wait?
  Vampire High by Douglas Rees is one suggestion.  It is a much lighter take on vampires, and  maybe a slightly more grim view of high School. When his family moves [...]

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Release Dates Moved

According to Sci Fi Wire, a couple of major, and eagerly anticipated, films have had their release schedules moved around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been moved from its Nov. 21 2008 release date to July 17, 2009. Yes. You read that correctly. We have to wait eight more [...]

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The Tale of Despereaux

The film version of Kate DiCamillo’s The Tale of Despereaux is due in US theaters on 19 December 2008. Here is the trailer of the film for you to enjoy. (I think that the film looks like fun.) Has anyone out there read the book? Does the film look like it’s [...]

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