books! (the meme)

apparently it is World Book Day, prompting this meme via jazzfish

The book (ha) I'm reading:
*Woodlands-Oliver Rackham
*Throne of the Crescent Moon-Saladin Ahmed
*Steering the Craft-Usrula Le Guin
*All Men of Genius- Lev AC Rosen (though I may be about to give up on this-- the idea seems worthy but I just haven't been caught by it yet)
*The Chesapeake Watershead-Ned Tillman (a "thanks for volunteering" gift from the aquarium's restoration planting team)
*The Medieval Garden-Sylvia Landsberg
*The Witch, the Weaver, and the Wood (last round of revising for now, I hope)
*and some other stuff if you count the things on the TBR shelf that I started over a decade ago & still mean to finish. I'm not sure you should bother, though.

Books I'm writing: depends how you define writing...
*The Witch, the Weaver & the Wood, mostly past the writing part
*Greatwood +2 as yet untitled sequels, in holding pattern until I'm done with WW&W (though I keep jotting down plot-continuation ideas as I revise)
*and one day I will come back to my half-finished sleeping beauty retelling, possibly with a better ability to write the bits I was having trouble with before.

The book I love the most:
Um... my latest two read-to-pieces books were Bujold's Memory & Martha Wells' The Wizard Hunters, but I'm kind of coming down off them (ie, have read enough times I quote lines to myself) and haven't identified the next one yet.

The last book I received as a gift:
Flora of Maryland (from my mother, who finds Flora of West Virginia far more helpful to her)

The last book I gave as a gift:
Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair (X-mas gift to grauwulf)

The nearest book:
The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England- Barbara A Hanawalt (on the newly purchased TBR stack)

The book I want someone else to please write for me:
um... more awesome ones with my gimmicky pseudo-historical fixations instead of the pop-culture standbys? Maybe something comparing botanical roles & human uses of mid-atlantic US native plants to medieval European ones? (although I have not yet searched for what's presently available on such topics.)

books! (the meme)

apparently it is World Book Day, prompting this meme via jazzfish

The book (ha) I'm reading:
*Woodlands-Oliver Rackham
*Throne of the Crescent Moon-Saladin Ahmed
*Steering the Craft-Usrula Le Guin
*All Men of Genius- Lev AC Rosen (though I may be about to give up on this-- the idea seems worthy but I just haven't been caught by it yet)
*The Chesapeake Watershead-Ned Tillman (a "thanks for volunteering" gift from the aquarium's restoration planting team)
*The Medieval Garden-Sylvia Landsberg
*The Witch, the Weaver, and the Wood (last round of revising for now, I hope)
*and some other stuff if you count the things on the TBR shelf that I started over a decade ago & still mean to finish. I'm not sure you should bother, though.

Books I'm writing: depends how you define writing...
*The Witch, the Weaver & the Wood, mostly past the writing part
*Greatwood +2 as yet untitled sequels, in holding pattern until I'm done with WW&W (though I keep jotting down plot-continuation ideas as I revise)
*and one day I will come back to my half-finished sleeping beauty retelling, possibly with a better ability to write the bits I was having trouble with before.

The book I love the most:
Um... my latest two read-to-pieces books were Bujold's Memory & Martha Wells' The Wizard Hunters, but I'm kind of coming down off them (ie, have read enough times I quote lines to myself) and haven't identified the next one yet.

The last book I received as a gift:
Flora of Maryland (from my mother, who finds Flora of West Virginia far more helpful to her)

The last book I gave as a gift:
Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair (X-mas gift to grauwulf)

The nearest book:
The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England- Barbara A Hanawalt (on the newly purchased TBR stack)

The book I want someone else to please write for me:
um... more awesome ones with my gimmicky pseudo-historical fixations instead of the pop-culture standbys? Maybe something comparing botanical roles & human uses of mid-atlantic US native plants to medieval European ones? (although I have not yet searched for what's presently available on such topics.)

Xposty from dreamwidth.

and now for the silly thing I was actually going to post...

Things I am not buying today include (but are not limited to):

A Bipedal Snail (website via amubleu, who is fond of the frogs) The text is also kind of priceless-- I want a superhero who saves the world rarely! It is, as I mentioned to grauwulf when I read it off to him, kind of sad to think that this was probably not actually written by anyone. As opposed to, say, the Eye of Argon...

A nice long dark green wig such as this, to make into dryad hair (or a tealy one for a mer-creature, perhaps) out of not-the-right-green frustration.

A rerooting tool for plastic doll hair, because I have a pin vise, and bent needles I can butcher. (like so)

Awesome sparkly mica powders (because I am secretly actually twelve, as I explained to the other people in the volunteer office while I pried cheap plastic mirror-backed cabs off foam core that had been tossed in the trash the other week)

Sadly, I am also not reserving a hotel room for Readercon, or a ticket to the Lahr Symposium (day of native plant lectures & sales at the end of the month) although I hope soon to do both.

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Also, a question for those who've been doing Monster High repaints: How are you handling the face-ups? Is it standard BJD rules with sealant & everything, or are there other guidelines for vinyl? Also (ok, so several questions...) is there a recommended way for getting a glitter sheen to adhere to a doll? Dust then spray with sealant, or what?

and now for the silly thing I was actually going to post...

Things I am not buying today include (but are not limited to):

A Bipedal Snail (website via amubleu, who is fond of the frogs) The text is also kind of priceless-- I want a superhero who saves the world rarely! It is, as I mentioned to grauwulf when I read it off to him, kind of sad to think that this was probably not actually written by anyone. As opposed to, say, the Eye of Argon...

A nice long dark green wig such as this, to make into dryad hair (or a tealy one for a mer-creature, perhaps) out of not-the-right-green frustration.

A rerooting tool for plastic doll hair, because I have a pin vise, and bent needles I can butcher. (like so)

Awesome sparkly mica powders (because I am secretly actually twelve, as I explained to the other people in the volunteer office while I pried cheap plastic mirror-backed cabs off foam core that had been tossed in the trash the other week)

Sadly, I am also not reserving a hotel room for Readercon, or a ticket to the Lahr Symposium (day of native plant lectures & sales at the end of the month) although I hope soon to do both.

---

Also, a question for those who've been doing Monster High repaints: How are you handling the face-ups? Is it standard BJD rules with sealant & everything, or are there other guidelines for vinyl? Also (ok, so several questions...) is there a recommended way for getting a glitter sheen to adhere to a doll? Dust then spray with sealant, or what?

Xposty from dreamwidth.