Hold Your Spin Calgary, AB, Canada

Really enjoyable reading. It's about the ways that science has attempted to prove the existence of an afterlife and/or a soul, but it's mostly about the ways that science has failed.

A really enjoyable look at how the North American food industry ended up the way it is, and what it means for us as individuals and as a community to eat the way we do.

This was a really enjoyable book. I liked it so much better than The Merlin Conspiracy (which is the only other book of Diana Wynn Jones' that I've read), and I'm really glad I picked it up. Next up, braving the movie and hoping the changes don't bother me as much as they bothered friends of mine.

This is a gorgeous cookbook. Not nearly enough pictures (there's just one small section of them) but the recipes sound fantastic and the book is scattered with little sidebars of extra information on ingredients and techniques.

The tone is conversational without being condescending. (One of m ... (continue)

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A selection of quilts that use twelve fat-quarters (plus backing and sometimes borders or accent fabrics). They are all at least baby or lap quilt sized, but some are a little larger as well. Most of the quilts are quite simple, but they are lovely.

A really comprehensive introduction to the various stitches used in all sorts of needlework. The photographs show all the steps needed to create the stitches.

This is my favourite of the Harry Potter books - everything has been rather a disappointment since.

This is quite possibly my favourite children's story. It's so wonderful.

Rating is for the edition, rather than the play itself. This is my favourite of the various different Shakespeare editions I've ever picked up. It's got a great deal of extra information for the reader, including several summaries (scene by scene, act by act, and an overview of the play).

This is probably my favourite young adult fantasy series, though Garth Nix's new series The Keys to the Kingdom is really wonderful as well. More well written than Harry Potter, a little less heavy reading than His Dark Materials, less silly than Artemis Fowl.

So many people liked it and liked it so much that I thought I'd be disappointed when I read it simply because it was so built up in my head. I enjoyed it though.

This is such a lovely children's book about a boy who likes to daydream. It reads aloud very well.

A fantastic play. I haven't seen it performed, but as funny as it is when reading alone, I'm sure it's even better performed aloud. It's Shakespearean fanfiction, it's fantasy, it's mystery, and it's wonderful. (Much better, also, I think, than MacDonald's novel "Fall On Your Knees," which sinks und ... (continue)