What Are You Reading?

                                 

Okay, so this summer I have not been in such a creative mood but I have had my Nook glued to my hand.  I've read almost the whole Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris.  I am totally sick of the whole vampire thing (really, can no one come up with a new genre?) but I found Ms. Harris' characters so likeable that I just have to read the whole series.  The downside is that everybody else is reading Sookie Stackhouse too and I have to wait.  I hate that!

For me, a good book is all about characters.  When I'm done reading, I feel like I know the characters personally.  Like I could call them up and see if they want to go get lunch.  Harry Potter is like that.  So is Elizabeth Bennet.  -Right now, I'm getting to know Eoin Colfer's Cosmo Hill in The Supernaturalist.  How about you?  Read any good books lately?

Worth One Miilllllion Dolllars....

I have long felt like the Dr. Evil of wannabe fabric designers--hoping that somewhere someone would "throw me a frikkin' bone" in regards to breaking into the textile design industry.  Lizzy House, the designer behind the very hip and cool "Lizzy Dish" fabric line has done just that with an e-book titled How To Enter The World of Fabric Design.  Since I was beginning to think that this world was about as easy to enter as Narnia or Underhill, her book couldn't have come at a better time!  Thanks Lizzy!  Your book's great.  Now I've got some homework to go do.

"Do you like your quasi-futuristic clothes Mr. Powers? I designed them myself....."