bookish

[muladhara]

I have been learning a new thing! I taught myself how to do kettle stitch binding for books, and now I have made two books using that method! There are things wrong with both books for different reasons, so I'd like to make another one to do things right this time, but I am still pretty proud of them! They look like actual books, and everything!

The first one, I made from paper from sketchpads that I knew I wasn't ever going to draw on. It's going to be some sort of scrapbook, I think. The second one I made from some card I'd got at work, so I will probably use it as some sort of sketchbook in the future. Or perhaps I will find another purpose for it!

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In other news, I DNF'd Assassin's Quest the other day. It's not that I wasn't enjoying it, I just wish it weren't so thick, and that Robin Hobb got where she was going quicker. Oh well, perhaps I'll pick it up again at some point in the future.

One of my friends from work is going to lend me The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch which I am a bit eh about, but thought I'd give it a go. I'd never even heard of it until Johnny from Dicebreaker mentioned it several times, and I looked it up and was decidedly eh about it. But my friend has a copy, so I'll give it a go! (Although I don't know what to make of her saying, "it made me so angry! Right up until the end!" It's certainly an interesting way to sell me a book, I guess?)

She is also going to lend me a book called Vox by Christina Dalcher which, from the premise alone I am leery about. It's set in the future(?) where women are only allowed to say 100 words a day, and if they go over that they are punished. My friend told her housemate I'd love it, but IDK if she's got the wrong impression about Books I Might Like. But I will give it a go and see.

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Okay, this has been sitting here a while, and I evidently have nothing else to say, so I am going to go away and sort out some paper for this next book.

Comments

[inamac]

I liked The Lies of Locke Lamona, but it wasn't a book to re-read.

[ruuger]

I taught myself how to do kettle stitch binding for books, and now I have made two books using that method!

Cool! I've been meaning to learn that so that I could make my own watercolor sketchbooks (since it would be much cheaper than buying one).

One of my friends from work is going to lend me The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch which I am a bit eh about, but thought I'd give it a go.
I started reading that for a bookclub last year and was disappointed when I realised that it didn't have a female protagonist. For some reason I'd managed to convince myself that the titular Locke Lamora would be a woman, and I couldn't get over the fact that the protagonist was a man and eventually gave up after about 40 pages :D

[muladhara]

It is SO EASY! I thought it would be dead complex, but ever since I watched a video about eighteen months ago, I've been like, "right! Imma do this!" and then not until now.

I thought it was about a female protag, too! I was disappointed when I read the synopsis and it wasn't. But I'm going to try it anyway.

[lassarina]

I quite enjoyed Lies of Locke Lamora, although I now have complicated feelings about the author.

[muladhara]

Yeahhhhh, that's why I wasn't in a hurry to read it any time soon. I nearly took it off my Want to Read list, but didn't (mainly because the GR app is naff as heck and doesn't let you do things like that!)