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[crockpotcauldron]

Welcome, everybody! I have no idea how to use this platform. Are there tags? Communities?
(Where do I find people talking about books, werewolves, and sewing?)

On the topic of werewolves and sewing - I'm hemming my new fabric so it can survive the wash (a simple zigzag along the edge is enough), and will work on paper pieced wolf designs some other time, because we are being upgraded to hurricane windows, and the vacuums and power drills and hammers are singing their awful song. I will escape to the library shortly, where I will probably fall prey to the allure of their dime cart again. (Three for ten cents! And they have a new cart of holiday books! I'm so weak!)

A hopefully complete list of books I have bought from the dime cart and not read yet:

Nonfiction:
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
The Illustrated History of Surgery by Knut Hager
The Right To Look Human: An Autobiography by Jack Penn
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World by A.N. Wilson
Pickpockets, Beggars and Ratcatchers: Life in the Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney
Jonson and Elizabethan Comedy by L.A. Beaurline
A Coffin for King Charles by C.V. Wedgwood
The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana
John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
Disraeli by Andre Maurois
Caesar Against the Celts by Ramon L. Jimenez
Sir Moses Montefiore: Champion in a Stagecoach by Sylvia Barras
The Closets Are Empty... The Dining Room's Full: An Autobiographical Legacy by Ace Lundon
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Knudsen
Enthusiasm Makes The Difference by Norman Vincent Peale
The 26 Letters by Oscar Ogg
Sewing 911: Practical and Creative Rescues for Sewing Emergencies by Barbara Deckert
Horseback Riding for Boys and Girls by Beverly and Margaret Mohan
The Real World of Sherlock Holmes: The True Crimes Investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle
Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West by Michael Rutter
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Mixed nonfiction and fiction:
A book containing Moby Dick, Life of Samuel Johnson, The Social Contract, The Odyssey, and The Man Who Would Be King.

Fiction:
Historical Whodunits edited by Mike Ashley
Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Rhapsody by Elizabeth Hayden
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
The Resurrected Holmes edited by Marvin Kaye
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Murder in the Place of Anubis by Lynda S. Robinson
Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist
The Emperor's Snuffbox by John Dickson Carr
Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman
In The Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry

In retrospect, 38 books is a bit much. But how could I resist these titles? I have been slowly working my way through the pile. Anything memorable goes on my Goodreads, and anything lackluster gets stealthily slipped back on the dime cart.

Does anybody have any votes for what I should try to read next?

Comments

[chickadee_sun]

Women Who Run with the Wolves sounds fun.

[crockpotcauldron]

Yeah! I love books of fairy tale analysis. I cracked it open and saw a bit about Baba Yaga.

[chickadee_sun]

Oh, it's about fairy tales? Wasn't clear from the title, but fairy tales are fun to analyze. Did the part you read connect Baba Yaga to wolves or just general wild woman stuff?

[crockpotcauldron]

The book seems to have a general wolfy theme, with section titles like "hunting: when the heart is a lonely hunter" or "finding one's pack: belonging as blessing" but it doesn't restrict itself to wolf stories. I think the Baba Yaga bit might be more about Vasilisa's hero's journey and themes. I will keep you updated.

[crockpotcauldron]

Update: I abandoned this book not too far into it. It was extremely weird - all Jungian psychobabble and mystical gender essentialism.

[trcunning]

The Borrowers was a staple of my childhood. <3

[crockpotcauldron]

I've never actually read it, but I did read stuff like The Indian in the Cupboard, and Afternoon of the Elves, and I do love dollhouses, so I'm stoked for the aesthetic of tiny people scavenging big stuff for their houses.

[trcunning]

Borrowers should be good for you on that front. There's also been a few adaptations, my fav of which (from 1993) is up on youtube.

[crockpotcauldron]

Update: The Borrowers was fantastic!