Read 1, Purl 2

How's this for the perfect combination of reading and knitting? This is from Vogue Knitting's Twitter feed today: "Such exciting news!!! Author Barbara Kingsolver will be speaking at the Gala Dinner at Vogue Knitting LIVE in Jan in New York. We're so excited to hear about her "other" life where she raises sheep, spins yarn, and knits. Right now tickets are available for package purchasers only but single tickets go on sale in a few weeks."

Link: A list of her books

Nora Ephron's "I Feel Bad about my Neck"

This particular passage in Nora Ephron's book expressed so perfectly how I feel when I get completely 'into' a book that I felt compelled to share it with my fellow Bookmark members.

"I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture--with a book. I loved this book. I loved every second of it. I was transported into its world. I was reminded of all sorts of things in my own life. I was in anguish over the fate of its characters. I felt alive and engaged, and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved. I composed a dozen imaginary letters to the author, letters I'll never write, much less send. I wrote letters of praise. I wrote letters relating entirely inappropriate information about my own experiences with the author's subject matter. I even wrote a letter of recrimination when one of the characters died and I was grief-stricken. But mostly I wrote letters of gratitude: the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read, but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time and when it does happen, I'm truly beside myself."

----------I Feel Bad about my Neck by Nora Ephron, pp. 117-118