Reading List 5 of 2023

RIP, Gordon Lightfoot (1938–2023), Canadian singer/songwriter/musician;     Tina Turner (1939–2023), American singer.    

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Covers from 5.19.23* through 5.30.23                  

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*This month, I read fanfic from 4.29 to 5.26, but I didn’t finish a book until 5.19.

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I/we own 2 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 7 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 6 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 1 items.

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Memoir & Biography:

1. Enough: Notes from a woman who has finally found it by Shauna M. Ahern
2. The Premonitions Bureau: A true account of death foretold by Sam Knight
3. Who We Lost: A portable COVID memorial, edited by Martha Greenwald

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Art & Design ~ Fashion:

1. A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20^th Century by Bonnie English [2007]
2. Fashion: From the 18^th to the 20^th centuries by the Kyoto Costume Institute [2004]

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Fiction:

1. Beauty and the Beast: the only one who didn’t run away by Wendy Mass
2. The Unstoppable Bridget Bloom by Allison L. Bitz

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Miscellaneous:

1. Rock Critic Law: 101 unbreakable rules for writing badly about music by Michael Azerrad
2. Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis [1983]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 128 works; 2,273,645 words

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TV & Films:

1. Queen Charlotte, season 1
2. Bridgerton, season 2 // watched last episode 2x//
3. Bridgerton ~ 1.06–1.08 //we hadn’t finished out the season before//
4. British Royal Family [BBC documentary, 1969] — I lasted 40 mins (of 90); it’s stultifyingly boring, except for the fashion, of which the queen’s herself, tho, is dowdy
5. Air, directed by Ben Affleck
6. Living, directed by Oliver Hermanus; screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro
7. The Lost King, directed by Stephen Frears

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Reading List 4 of 2023

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Covers from 3.31.23 through 4.29.23                    

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I/we own 5 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 9 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 1 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 7 items.

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Miscellaneous

1. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
2. The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds by Jasper Sharp and Tim Grabham
3. Great Women Artists by Phaidon Press
4. Lessons in Classical Painting by Juliette Aristides
5. The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon [2009]
6. Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto

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Fashion & Style:

1. The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader, edited by Brent Luvaas and Joanne B. Eicher
2. The Magic of Pockets by Jess Driscoll
3. Out-of-Style: A Modern Perspective of How, Why, and When Vintage Fashions Evolved by Betty Kreisel Shubert
4. The Perfect Wedding Dress by Philip Delamore

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 93 works; 2,368,444 words

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Films:

1. 22 vs. Earth, directed by Kevin Nolting
2. A Sort of Homecoming: Bono & The Edge with Dave Letterman, directed by Morgan Neville
3. The Dish, directed by Rob Sitch [2000]
4. Far from the Tree, directed by Natalie Nourigat
5. Frozen Fever, directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
6. Lifted, directed Gary Rydstrom
7. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
8. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, directed by Anthony Fabian
9. Pirates of Penzance, directed & written by Wilford Leach [1983]
10. Pride & Prejudice, directed by Joe Wright [2005]
11. Soul, directed by Pete Docter
12. What Is Art?, directed by Bob Peterson

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Reading List 3 of 2023

RIP, my last aunt, who was also my godmother (1936–2023);     Judy Heumann (1947–2023), American disability-rights activist.     

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Covers from 3.1.23 through 3.30.23                      

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I/we own 5 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 14 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 2 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 5 items.

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Art / Art History:

1. Eye for Colour by Bernat Klein [1965]
2. Letters to a Painter on the Theory and Practice of Painting by Wilhelm Ostwald [1907]
3. The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major
4. Retreat from Likeness in the Theory of Painting, 2^nd ed., by Frances Bradshaw Blanshard [1972]
5. The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours by George Barnard [1861]
6. Ut Pictura Poesis: The Humanistic Theory of Painting by Rensselaer W. Lee [1967]

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Fashion & Style:

1. 1900–1920: Linen & Lace by Sue Mee (20^th Century Fashion) [1999]
2. Everyday Fashions of the 20^th Century by Avril Lansdell [1999]

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[Video] Sewing ~ How to:

1. Hand Sewn Draw String Bag by Edith Carnley
2. How to Gather: 3 Easy Techniques by Lindsey Rae of Sew to Grow
3. Pattern Alteration(s) by Lindsey Rae – Forward Shoulder Adjustment; Lengthen the Skirt; Sway Back Adjustment
4. Modular Project by @minimalistmachinist – Parts 1, 2, 3

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Love & Sexuality:

1. Kink, edited by R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell
2. Sex and the Single Woman: 24 writers reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic, edited by Eliza Smith and Haley Swanson
3. Whip Smart by Melissa Febos [2006]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 92 works; 2,033,701 words

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TV & Films:

1. Prince Harry and the Colbert Questionert
2. Ultimate Airport: Dubai ~ 1.01–1.06
3. Burrow, written & directed by Madeline Sharafian
4. The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves
5. First to the Moon, directed by Paul Hildebrandt
6. My Neighbor Totoro, written & directed by Hayao Miyazaki [2013]
7. Partysaurus Rex, directed by Mark Walsh

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Reading List 2 of 2023

RIP, Fred la marmotte, Quebecois groundhog (d. 2023);      Susan Duhan Felix (1937–2023), American Jewish dancer, poet, and ceramic artist;      Barrie Juniper (1932–2023), British botanist and author of _The Story of the Apple_;      Branka Veselinović / Бранка Веселиновић (1918–2023), Serbian actress & UNICEF ambassador.

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Covers from 2.3.23 through 2.28.23                      

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 8 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 8 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 5 items.

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Fiction:

1. Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang
2. The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy
3. In These Promiscuous Parts by Menna Gallie [1986]
4. Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble [[FN-Cherokee]]
5. Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
6. When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble [[FN-Cherokee]]
7. When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle
8. Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

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Memoir:

1. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos [2022]
2. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

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[Video] Pop Culture & Social Criticism, by Princess Weekes

1. How Blaise Zabini Changed Slytherin & Exposed Fandom
2. _Passing_ [film, directed by Rebecca Hall] & the Nature of Identity
3. What Gilmore Girls Tells Us About Love & Class
4. Why Are There So Many Confederate Vampires?

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Poetry:

1. Mankiller Poems: The Lost Poetry of Wilma Mankiller [[FN-Cherokee]]
2. Your Soul is a River by Nikita Gill

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Miscellaneous:

1. Delta Rainbow: The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson by Sally Palmer Thomason with Jean Carter Fisher
2. Kent State: 4 Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
3. A Place All Our Own: Lives Entwined in a Desert Garden by Mary Irish

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 141 works; 2,892,794 words

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TV & Films:

1. Great British Baking Show: The Professionals, 2021
2. Cyrano, directed by Joe Wright
3. Emma., directed by Autumn de Wilde
4. Fire of Love, directed & co-written by Sara Dosa
5. Rosaline, directed by Karen Maine

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Reading List 1 of 2023

RIP, Maria Dworzecka (1941–2023), Polish-American computational nuclear physicist, and a survivor of the Bialystok Ghetto;     Theodore Newman, Jr. (1934–2023), the first Black chief judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals, the city’s highest court [1976], and the first African American jurist nationally to head a state-level court system;     Doina Postolachi (c. 1979–2023), Moldovan poet  and novelist;     Lucile Randon, aka Sœur Andre (1904–2023), French supercentenarian, the world’s oldest verified living person since 4.19.2022, and the oldest known survivor of Covid-19.

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Covers from 1.13.23 through 1.31.23                    

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I/we own 4 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 12 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 2 of the books.

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex:

1. Spare by Prince Harry & J. R. Moehringer
2. [Interview~text] Bryony Gordon’s Substack
3. [Interview~video] 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper
4. [Interview~video] Good Morning America with Michael Strahan
5. [Interview~video] The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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other Memoirs:

1. Dying of Politeness by Geena Davis
2. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, edited by Alan Taylor
3. No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful by Paulina Porizkova

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Miscellaneous:

1. On Women Artists: Poems, 1975–1980 by Alexandra Grilikhes [1981]
2. [Podcast] How My Trauma Became My Teacher by Luis Mojica of Holistic Life Navigation

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{{Fanfic reads began 1.2.2023}}

~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 159 works; 4,002,256 words

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TV & Films:

1. The Muppet Show ~ 2.17: Julie Andrews
2. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction ~ George Clooney
3. 4⋆Town: One True Love, directed by Bill Presing
4. Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song; directed by Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine
5. Ice Age, directed by Chris Wedge & co-directed by Carlos Saldana [2002]
6. Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, directed by Louie Psihoyos & co-directed by Peggy Callahan
7. Sirens, written & directed by John Duigan [1994]
8. Turning Red, directed by Domee Shi

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Creative Year in Review ~ 2022

Theme: “Just live.”

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Spring: BMA had a Joan Mitchell exhibit. Spouse took me, in both May and June, which was awesome.   Ms. Mitchell — a fellow emotion-color synesthete — said things with colors I didn’t know you could say. Hoping to figure out how to do similar things with my own works.

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EMOTION-COLORWAYS

• ‘Elements’: spring green, shades of pink, delicious oranges, greenygold, sky/cerulean, green & grey, ochers, browns & greys, midnight …
• ‘Phrases’: complex greens, earth greens, sage & celery, canyons?, Blue & Orange (and variants: sky & clementine), Earth Tones?, Fire & Earth, *glory*, …
• Glyphs | Wyxzi: ~amelia~, -glas·aoa, heart·greens, hazel·woods, YG/BG/RO, citrus, …
• Certain hues that occur in the color gamut of the d-d—RW—O project, only occur in specific combinations. For instance, purple only occurs with soft greens and/or yellow-greens (but not blues, pinks, or browns).
• (Possibly related to my long fascination with Delft blue, and majolica, pottery) I spent long years wearing a ton of garments in shades of medium-to-dark blues + optic white, but neither of those hues appear in the color gamut of the d-d—RW—O project.
• I can only tolerate red in tiny increments at the moment. And just one shade: scarlet.
• CB’s color gamut includes blues, red, brown, YG/G, O/YO, pinks, but for right now, I have to keep away from almost all blues and reds, as they clash horribly with earthier shades.
• Even though I have a great many favorite shades of green, I’ve been realizing that some of them are no longer compatible with the directions I’m moving in. For instance, lime green no longer works.

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=V= NDER:ZBUKU

• Nov: Reorganized my closet, grouping garments and accessories by emotion—colorways: ~amelia~, -glas·aoa,, earth greens, Earth Tones, hazel·woods, complex greens,, delicious oranges, greenygold, sky/cerulean,, amber|golden & silver, …
• Gear ~ 8 items added. 6 bought new: eyeglasses case (wool, twill); backpack (hemp); sketchbag (linen); 3 sets winingas (wool, twill, handwoven); 1 thrifted: hooded cape (wool); 1 upcycled: hat (cashmere (felted), pieced).   
• Looking to 2023 … Gear ~ I still need sitting mat for plein air art.    Garb ~ perhaps constructing vests/gilets/tabards, likely from thrifted wools that I felt, and/or pin loom squares of wool that I sew together.

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overlaps with WARDROBE

• By fiber, Out: 25 garments, cotton (18), linen (7). Reds/rust, vivid coral, blues+optic white, ivory.
• By fiber, In: 20 garments, linen (10), wool (8), cotton (2); and 8 woven wool bands.
• By function, In: 7 tunics, 8 juostos*, 6 skirts, 7 items of outerwear.
• *By country of origin, In: Finland (1), Lithuania (3); Norway (4).

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FIBER ARTS

• Nov-Dec: Wove 27 pin loom squares of wool; most with plant-dyed yarn
• 3 wool plaits I made myself    
• Braided 18 fringes of wool juosto

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PHOTO PROJECT

• Spouse found me 3 different ways to print photos from my phone, which I’ve been doing.
• Nov: Spouse located the old hard drives containing my digital photos from 2005–2013.
• Dec: Spouse got me a printer specifically for those (now on) laptop photos; I’ve been printing them.

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PAINTING, Watercolor

• Mar: Ziggl, flowering.

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Artistic influences this year, by country of residence:

1. ancient world mosaics.
2. Aotearoa – Sally Tennent-Brown [Jewellery].
3. Australia – @catinawitchhat, Mads Colvin, Jane Milburn [Attire]; Sally Blake [Fiber]; Tara Axford [Painting].
4. Belgium — @hemelbreker [Attire].
5. Canada – Dawn Candy [Ceramics]; Arounna Khounnoraj [Fiber].
6. Czech Republic – Alice Stonová [Jewellery].
7. Denmark – Anton Bruusgaard [Attire]; Mette Mehlsen [Fiber].
8. England – Terry Macey, Sigrid Verschraeghen, @ed_1eye, @rosablue [Attire]; Caroline Egleston [Ceramics]; Shelley Rhodes [Collage]; Clare Ramsall, Tor Falcon [Drawing & Illustration]; Bridget Bailey, Julia Crook, Archana Pathak [Fiber]; Karen Howarth, Carin Lindberg, Charlotte Whitmore [Jewellery]; Tansy Hargan, Christine Pocock, J.R.R. Tolkien [Painting]; Bex Simon [Sculpture~metal]; Liz Chester [Weaving~tapestry].
9. Finland – Mervi Pasanen [Fiber].
10. France – Sylvie Facon [Attire]; Julie Bergeron [Ceramics]; Max Ernst, Joan Mitchell, Paul Signac, Suzanna Valadon [Painting].
11. Germany – Felipe Pelaez [Attire]; Jutta Becker [Ceramics]; Anniette Beaucamp [Weaving~tapestry].
12. Iceland – Elsa Sólblóm [Attire].
13. Ireland – Ann Mechelinck, Marion Weymes [Fiber]; Harry Kernoff [Painting]; Muriel Beckett [Weaving~tapestry].
14. Japan – Misao Jo, Miya Chiyoshiko [Weaving~saori].
15. Latvia — Ieva Krūmiņa, Inese Liepina [Fiber].
16. Lithuania — Raminta Beržanskytė [Fiber].
17. Norway — Lucia Andalova [Weaving~tablets].
18. Ottoman Empire embroidery.
19. Poland — Magdalena Abakanowicz [Fiber & Sculpture]; Natalia Miedziak-Skoniecza [Photography].
20. Russia – Inna Aistova [Jewellery].
21. Scotland – Judith Rosalind [Attire]; Bernat Klein [Fiber], Michele Daykin [Jewellery]; Bessie MacNicol, Liz Myhill [Painting]; Louise Oppenheimer [Weaving~tapestry].
22. Spain=Ibiza – San De Wilde [Fiber].
23. Sweden – Claire Caudwell [Collage]; Märta Måås-Fjetterström & Barbro Nilsson [Fiber].
24. Switzerland – Sophie Taeuber-Arp [multi-disciplinary].
25. Ukraine – Oksana Trukhan [Jewellery].
26. USA – Nancy Davis, Karolina Lewandowska, Isa Segalovich [Art History]; Christian Jallaire, Paul Shelton, Kate Weiss, @_donnyq, @historically_approximate, @sewnthoughtfully, @shokotara, @stanclothing [Attire]; Donna Stiller [Collage]; Lynda Barry, Melanie Reim [Drawing & Illustration]; Karen Barbé, Natalie Ciccoricco, Imogene Grey, Jude Hill, Christi Johnson [Fiber]; Theodore Ellison, Michael Weiss, @nzilani_glass [Glass]; Blair LaBella, Eileen O’Shea, Elizabeth Scott, Amy Wyckoff  [Jewellery]; Hannah Bullen-Ryner [Nature~ephemeral]; @daughtersandsuns, Richard Diebenkorn, Jane Frank, Natalie Hinahara, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Virginia Spiegel, Mickalene Thomas, Patti Vincent, Jennifer Wang, Gunnar Mauritz Widforss, Richard Yarde, Purvis Young, Mitford Zornes [Painting]; Jeff Greer, Bill Kutilek [Photography]; Katie Baldwin [Quilting]; Rashid Johnson, Mary Nohl [Sculpture]; Megan Adgate, Ruth Collier Manning, Darcie Shively [Weaving].
27. Wales – Martin Truefitt-Baker [Drawing & Illustration]; Jeanette Grey [Weaving~basketry].

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READING

• Read 140 books all the way through.                 (1.7x as many as 2021.)

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FANFIC – Harry Potter, on AO3

• Read 1,050 fics, 31.1 million words

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POETRY

~Reading~

• Still in _Aniibi’a_ 6: Added 38 poems by 23 poets in 2022.        15 women, 7 men, 1 person of unknown gender.    A. E. Stallings (Jan) – Jacqueline Saphra (Dec).     Old favorites, 6; new-to-me, 17.
• [2021 was also in _Aniibi’a_ 6: Added 31 poems by 29 poets.    21 women, 8 men.                   Amanda Gorman (Jan) – Tahereh Saffarzadeh (Dec).    Old favorites, 9; new-to-me, 20.]
• [[1991–current, _Aniibi’a_, volumes 1–6, contains 1200+ poems, by 760 poets*.]]
• [[*The vast majority of poets, I have 1 or 2 poems from. But there’s > 30 that I have 5+ from.                 My very favorite poet is also the one I have the most poems from, and she’s the only poet whose work appears in all 6 volumes: Lucille Clifton, 21 poems.]]

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~Writing~

None.

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RIVER TIME

3/15, 5/15, (6/1), 10/15.

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PLANT COMPANIONS & FRIENDS

• Feb: Repotted Slyvs & Imippe.
• late Mar: rescued a poinsettia, if only to give it a nice home to die in.   Apr–Nov, Pō was doing great (including a red leaf in Nov), but began ailing in December.
• Slyvori still doing well. (Coming up on 6 years together.) Nov: a 2^nd baby Slyv.
• Ziggl still doing well. So far, no winter flowers, but 2 buds. (3 years in November.)
• Imi & their oxalis pot-mates doing well. (35 months.)
• Spouse’s succulents and peace lily are doing well. [mid-to-late 2019]
• Windowboxes: Calibrachoa; oxalis and 1 unknown. (self-seeded?)
• 2 free-standing pots of flowers in garden; 1 was still blooming in Nov [all garden plants brought inside in October because frost].

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PAINTING, Watercolor

• Mar: Ziggl, flowering.

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Took 2 online classes from English multimedia artist Tansy Hargan, including “Finding Your Colour Voice” [watercolor]. Neither class was my cup of tea, and I didn’t finish either one. I did realize that taking an in-person class would’ve been an even-worse ‘fit’ for how I prefer to learn things these days.

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HUMAN-SOCIAL: Self-isolating for entire year.        Still masking whenever around people.

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SCHEDULING:             7 intervals

• Pandemic 8: 1 fallow week
• Pandemic 9: 3 properly-eudaimonic + 3 ‘mixed’ + 4 fallow weeks
• Pandemic 10: 4 properly-eudaimonic + 3 ‘mixed’ + 3 fallow weeks
• Pandemic 11: 10 properly-eudaimonic weeks               //summer//
• Pandemic 12: 7 properly-eudaimonic + 3 ‘mixed’ weeks        
• Pandemic 13: 6 properly-eudaimonic + 2 ‘mixed’ + 2 fallow weeks 
• Pandemic 14: 1 properly-eudaimonic week 

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PHYSICAL HEALTH

• Spouse and I keep current on boosters for covid.
• Spouse received shingles vaccine.

• early June: Spouse bit by 3 deer ticks, within 2 weeks.  

• Oct: Began wearing retainers at night. (Had originally hoped that in 2023, or 2024, I might be able to start doing Invisalign, but… I doubt I could tolerate that.) I wake up with headaches every night I wear them; and now teeth/gums/inside mouth, sometimes even my tongue, hurt all the time; so I’m having to s-p-a-c-e out which nights I wear them, and for how long.

• Nov: Periodontist showed me a “better” way of brushing my teeth & gums. Except that that not only do my gums bleed (more often than before), but my teeth & gums are more sensitive than they already were, and I’m now in pain all the time.                     Ironically, I visited the ortho, then perio, people in the spring because intermittent pain was concerning & bothersome.                      

• Oct–Nov: 2 medical-trauma occurrences, 8 wks apart, same body region (but for different reasons). During the first one, I literally thought I was going to die, right then, 10 miles away from Spouse; the 2^nd one was worse.

• Nov: unexplained incident of “food poisoning”(?) => 3 days of utter misery.

• early Dec: Via Reddit’s AITA, became aware of an eating disorder now known as ARFID, which is clearly the type I have. (Before covid, I was managing it well enough that it wasn’t much of a concern day-to-day. Alas, it’s back to being A Big Issue.)          

• also Dec: ear pain/vestibular weirdness/dizzy/headache, even when I’m sedentary. Sub-clinical ear infection? Sinus infection?       I don’t know or care, please, just Go Away!

• 1 Fever blister/cold sores in 2022: 7/26-31 
• [3 FB/CS in 2021]
• 6 Migraines in 2022: 3/11 (visual), 4/20, 6/4-5, 8/25 (visual), 8/30, 10/4-5,
• [5 Migraines in 2021]
• 10 so-called ½ Migraines: 2/5, 2/20, 3/6-7, 3/31, 7/14-15, 7/30-31, 8/27, 10/30, 11/24-25, 12/22
• [3 so-called ½ Migraines in 2021]
• 0 Styes              [1 each in 2020, 2021]

• “Standing & Walking” ~ [12.30.22] 1392.7 hours total. Range (raw): 0.4 to 8.4 hours per day. Daily average, 3.82 hours. 
• B: 12 (51), 15.8 // P: 5 (5) 

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TRAVEL – None.

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EPISTOLARY – None.

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Reading List 12 of 2022

RIP, Pelé (1940–2022), Brazilian soccer legend & a personal hero for me since my soccer-mad 1970s childhood;    Audrey Eagle (1925–2022), Aotearoan botanical illustrator, writer, and co-founder of Forest & Bird;    Manuel Göttsching (1952–2022), German musician and composer;    Christine McVie (1943–2022), English musician and singer;    Vivienne Westwood (1941–2022), English fashion designer.

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Covers from 12.1.22 through 12.30.22                 

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I/we own 6 of these items. I watched 10 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 18 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 5 items.

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Poetry:

1. 11 Philadelphians, edited by Travis Macdonald
2. A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller by Jacqueline Saphra
3. Boomerang | Bumerán by Achy Obejas
4. Goldenrod by Maggie Smith
5. Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral
6. Like a veil—on humanness, shame and Mark Baumer by Jeff Alessandrelli
7. Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni
8. Moods of a Lake by Neil M. Noble
9. One for Everyone [anthology], compiled by Kathleen Watkins
10. The Outlaw, the Red Ghost, Half-Lives, A Photogram Exposed by the Dirt by Zack Anderson
11. Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
12. Sweating It Out by Deborah Turner
13. Undersong by Audre Lorde [1982]
14. The Wandering Mountains by David Wheatley
15. Woods and Clouds Interchangeable by Michael Earl Craig

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Banwcotreb:

1. The Hedgerow Book by Ron Wilson [1979]
2. Iceland Imagined by Karen Oslund
3. The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman
4. [Video] Let Them Talk TV presents… Stop Saying RP: Say instead SSBE (Standard Southern British English)
5. [Video] Let Them Talk TV presents… How the Celts Changed the English Language

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British figures of interest:

1. Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton
2. Diana: Her True Story — In Her Own Words, 25^th anniversary edition, by Andrew Morton
3. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth by Catherine McIlwaine
4. [Film] Harry & Meghan, directed by Liz Garbus

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Fiction:

1. A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
2. Hedgerow by Florence Engel Randall [1967]
3. Welcome to the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
4. [SFF] The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
5. [SFF] Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

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Miscellaneous:

1. The Art of Map Illustration by James Gulliver Hancock, Hennie Haworth, Stuart Hill, Sarah King
2. Better Data Visualizations by Jonathan Swabish
3. Woven to Wear by Marilyn Murphy
4. [Video] 18^th Century Beauty Myths You Shouldn’t Believe by Serena Dyer
5. [Video] Marvel’s Defenders of the Status Quo by Pop Culture Detective

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 103 works; 2,523,854 words

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Films:

1. The Crown ~ 5.07–5.10
2. Glass Onion, written & directed by Rian Johnson
3. Good Ol’ Freda, directed by Ryan White
4. If These Walls Could Sing, directed by Mary McCartney
5. The Sound of 007, directed by Mat Whitecross

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Reading List 11 of 2022

RIP, Lee Bontecou (1931–2022), American sculptor; Irene Cara (1959–2022), American singer and actress.

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Covers from 11.10.22 through 11.30.22                              

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I/we own 4 of these items. I watched 17 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 4 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 1 items.

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Videos ~ Mental Health:

1. Mayim Bialik || I Was Wrong About Open Relationships
2. Mayim Bialik || Remembering My Wedding After Divorce

• Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown | Dr. Gabor Maté: Who Gets Sick, and How to Prevent It
• The Myth of Normal with Daniel Maté by Holistic Life Navigation

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Garment design:

1. Beginners’ Saori Clothing Design by Saorinomori/Sakaiseikisangyo Co.
2. [Video] Make a T-shirt Bigger: 5 Ways by Catherine Sews
3. [Video] Steeking for Armholes by Alla Hale
4. [Video] Sweater Upcycling! by Catherine Sews

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Banwcotreb:

1. [Video] Smashing English! | The 5 Hardest British Accents to Understand!
2. [Video] Let Them Talk TV presents… A Londoner Explains how to speak Cockney
3. [Video] Let Them Talk TV presents… RP [Received Pronunciation] vs. Posh English

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Fiction:

1. Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
2. The Work Wife by Alison B. Hart

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Miscellaneous:

1. A Full Life: Reflections at 90 by Jimmy Carter
2. Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
3. How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero’s Guide to the Real Middle Ages by Caitlin Stevenson
4. Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World by Ella Frances Sanders
5. [Video] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, 13 Nov 2022: The Monarchy

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 128 works; 2,714,008 words

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Films I tried to watch, but bailed on:

1. Disenchanted // Back in the day, I loved Enchanted, so was genuinely excited to see this! (Spouse read the reviews, and was then meh.) So much cringe … I lasted 20 minutes //
2. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp // Because Spouse seemed to like it, I suffered through ½ before I just couldn’t continue //

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TV & Films:

1. The Crown ~ 5.01–5.06
2. GBBO ~ 13.08–13.10
3. Emma., directed by Autumn de Wilde
4. Enola Holmes 2, directed by Harry Bradbeer
5. Good Night Oppy, directed & co-written by Ryan White
6. Pitch Perfect 2, directed by Elizabeth Banks

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Reading List 10 of 2022

RIP, Sacheen Littlefeather (1946–2022), First Nations (American) civil rights activist, actress, model;    Loretta Lynn (1932–2022), American singer-songwriter;    Tigre Mashaal-Lively (1985–2022), multidisciplinary artist and community activist, most recently of Santa Fe NM.

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Covers from 10.2.22 through 10.29.22                 

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I/we own 2 of these items. I watched 25 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 7 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 3 items.

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Videos ~ Garment Design:

1. Buying a Knockoff of My Own Dress by Bernadette Banner
2. Lacy Edwardian Blouses are … COMPLICATED by Bernadette Banner
3. Dress Historian Analyzes ‘Historical’ Film Costumes by Bernadette Banner
4. 5 Historical Films That Got the Costumes RIGHT. by Bernadette Banner
5. Every Jane Austen Adaptation Ranked from Worst to Best by Ms Mojo
6. The Flirtatious Regency Balls of Pride & Prejudice | Having a Ball by Real Royalty
7. Redesigning Historical Romance Novel Covers to be Actually Historical by Bernadette Banner
8. Redesigning “Historical” Halloween Costumes According to Actual Historical Evidence: Men’s Edition by Bernadette Banner
9. fridgetown handwarmers by HandmadebyCarolyn
10. How to upcycle a linen shirt by Repair What You Wear
11. Upcycling a cashmere cardigan by Repair What You Wear
12. Upcycling a shrunk jumper by Repair What You Wear
13. DIY Sweater Upcycling by Jan Howell
14. Upcycled t-shirt to tank top by Jan Howell
15. Crazy scrap quilting by Jan Howell

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Videos ~ Garment Repair, etc.:

1. How to mend sports shoes by Repair What You Wear
2. Running shoes repair by Repair What You Wear
3. Woven fabrics – Plain & Twill weave by Repair What You Wear
4. How to fix frayed jeans hem by Repair What You Wear
5. How to take in jeans at the waist by Jan Howell

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Banwcotreb:

1. Watercolour Workshop: Projects and Interpretations by Ann Blockley
2. [Fiction] The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
3. [Fiction] The Last Dance of the Debutante by Julia Kelly
4. [Fiction] The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce [2005]
5. [Film] LOTR: Return of the King, directed by Peter Jackson

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Fiction:

1. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
2. Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
4. The Seven Day Switch by Kelly Harms

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SFF:

1. An Apprentice to Elves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
2. Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Music ~ documentaries:

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Travelin’ Band at the Royal Albert Hall [1970], directed by Bob Smeaton
2. Patch CV: Controlling Voltage, directed by David Elliott Johnson and Britt Thomas McTammany

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 117 works; 3,107,094 words

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TV & Films:

1. Derry Girls ~ 3.01
2. GBBO ~ 13.03–13.07
3. The Muppet Show ~ 1.01–1.02
4. Pitch Perfect, directed by Jason Moore

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Reading List 9 of 2022

RIP, Valerie Maynard (1937–2022), Black American sculptor, printmaker & designer; Hilary Mantel (1952–2022), British novelist; Coolio (1963–2022), Black American rapper.  

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Covers from 9.19.22 through 9.30.22                    

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched 12 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 2 of the books.

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SFF:

1. All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
2. The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

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Miscellaneous:

1. Illustrating Children’s Books by Martin Salisbury

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 86 works; 1,981,769 words

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Garments ~ YouTube videos:

1. Guide to winingas for early medieval and dark age living history by Mike Everest
2. Guide to WW1 British & Commonwealth puttees by Mike Everest
3. Pattern Webbing Assembly [WW1] by Mike Everest
4. Leg wraps: How and why to do them by The Bearded Axe
5. How to pattern ANY kind of flared skirt | How the math works by Mariah Pattie

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Banwcotreb:

• [Video] Owain Glyndŵr day, 16 Sep 2022 ~ Michael Sheen

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TV:

1. One-Minute Time Machine, directed by Devon Avery
2. Super Rhino, written & directed by Nathan Greno
3. GBBO ~ 13.01–13.02
4. LOTR: Rings of Power ~ 1.01–most of 1.02 [until the orc]
5. Our Great National Parks ~ Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; Chilean Patagonia

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Films:

1. LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson
2. LOTR: The Two Towers, directed by Peter Jackson

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