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Vintage Knit Hats: 21 Patterns for Timeless Fashions by Kathryn Fulton

1.0

This book is lacking in details, good photography, and information necessary for knitting the patterns. One pattern calls for three skeins of worsted merino. How many yards/meters of actual yarn does that call for? What yarn was the sample in the photographs made in? Why are the photos blurry? Why does that hat look good on the cover and like some kids played catch with it on its pattern page? Why are some patterns written in one long single-spaced paragraph?
Also, there’s some bad advice. For the watch cap on the cover, for example, the author suggests stiffening the brim with a piece of cardboard. You do, and you’ll never be able to wash that hat.
Just why?

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch

emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

5.0

Connecticut Witch Trials: The First Panic in the New World by Cynthia Wolfe Boynton

informative medium-paced

4.0

The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

dark emotional informative sad tense

5.0

Do you think I'd give up? 
That this might've shook the love from me 
Or that I was on the brink 
How could you think, darlin', I'd scare so easily?

Now that it's done 
There's not one thing that I would change 
My life was a storm since I was born 
How could I fear any hurricane?

If someone asked me at the end

I'd tell them, "Put me back in it" 
Darlin’', I would do it again
If I could hold you for a minute 
Darlin', I'd go through it again

I would still be surprised I could find you 
Darlin', in any life 
If I could hold you for a minute 
Darlin', I would do it again

For all that was said 
Of where we'd end up at the end of it 
When the heart would cease, ours never knew peace 
What good would it be on the far side of things?

It was too soon 
When that part of you was ripped away 
A grip taking hold like a cancer that grows 
Each piece of your body that it takes

Though I know my heart would break

I'd tell them, "Put me back in it" 
Darlin’, I would do it again
If I could hold you for a minute 
Darlin’, I'd go through it again

I would still be surprised I could find you 
Darlin', in any life 
If I could hold you for a minute 
Darlin’, I would do it again

I would not change it each time 
Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I 
Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I 
I would not change it each time 
Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I 
Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I 
I would not change it each time 
Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I 
Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I

—Hozier, “Francesca”, Unreal Unearth

Contemporary Irish Knits by Carol Feller

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

Purgatorio (Purgatory) by Dante Alighieri

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Unnatural Death: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell

dark informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Livid by Patricia Cornwell

dark informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible: 260 Exquisite Patterns by Hitomi Shida by Hitomi Shida

4.0