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ON REPEAT Pulled pork Chocolate coconut Pumpkin mug cakes Listening to podcasts while doing yoga Cleaning/Organizing/Moving furniture Linux 2048 (the knitting edition) Writing Edx classes Piano practice Learning Dutch on Duolingo FAVORITES BOOKS: Bone Shaker, The Man Under My Skin, The Lover’s Dictionary, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers FILM : The Man and the Hole in the Roof MEMORIES : Spending a long weekend with out of town relatives, going to the community garage sale in the Adirondacks, decorating future apartments on Pinterest, library books sale, getting mom’s new phone set up. 101 IN 1,001 About a year ago (August 2013) I started a 101 in 1,001 project.  Below is a list of goals I completed or finished in the last month. Eat with chopsticks

February by Lisa Moore Rating: 4 out of 5 stars When the wall closes over Cal, he will be like a fly in amber, a riddle of time, a museum piece. He will lose the desire for escape. The obsession with living will seem like a dalliance to him then. Stillness will be the new thing. February follows the lives of the family of a man who died in the 1982 sinking of the Ocean Ranger off the coast of Newfoundland. Central to the narrative is the grief of his wife and only son.  This isn't a novel driven by events but instead one driven by its narrative and the fractured, disjointed set of emotions it portrays.  Focusing on life as much as death, February paints a vivid picture of our changing world and the steadfast unchanging way loss affects us all. The novel is haunting, realistic and bright, shimmering with the joys of life, while also, masterfully gut wrenching and tragic as the sinking of the rig is portrayed piece by piece.  Covering a span of decades, u

Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children #2) by Ransom Riggs My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Hollow City picks up where the first book left off, with the children on the run.  Their ultimate goal is, London, the one place they may be able to find help for Miss Peregrine.  While, under normal circumstances, the journey would be straightforward, on the run in the middle of a war means getting there won't be so easy.   The story continues in much the same vein as the first, with the same fantastical and clever revelations of peculiar ability.  The found photos are found throughout, just as they were in the first book, although these are less cheerful and more eerie, depicting the death and destruction of war as much as the manifestation of peculiar abilities. I enjoyed the continuing character development, particularly the revelation of several characters back stories.  I also really enjoyed the way Riggs plays with time and time periods, from the d

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ON REPEAT Cheater pickles Roast chicken in the convection oven Paleo wraps Writing Listening to audiobooks while knitting Nightly TV episodes FAVORITES BOOKS: Howl's Moving Castle, The Night Circus, Anil's Ghost, and Medium Raw   TV SHOW: The Newsroom, Outlander, Flashpoint, and The Killing KNITTING : Hemlock ring blanket MEMORIES: Burlington with my sister (thrift shopping, the world's largest filing cabinet, and the swings down by the water),  the MFA and the ICA, game night, coming home, farmers markets and library visits, cleaning out the wardrobe, the reenactment at the Canal Village, free night at the zoo, day trip to the Binghamton zoo, afternoon up on the hill looking through books and then going out to dinner 101 IN 1,001 About a year ago (August 2013) I started a 101 in 1,001 project.  Below is a list of goals I completed or finished in the last month. Host a game night (10 August) Attend a reenactment (24 August) Follow up or finish