Just finished reading
Yarn Harlot, a book by a popular knitting blogger.
My main impression was that it read like a collection of blog entries, rather than a book. The individual entries ("chapters," "stories," even "essays" would be misleading) were cute enough, and occasionally even funny, but they weren't as polished or as complete as I was expecting. They were just so . . . little. The author kept calling herself a writer, and I kept wanting to cross the word out and insert "blogger" instead.
(I didn't, though, because it was a library book, and I would never deface public property in that manner.)
I don't mean this as an insult, by the way. It's just a category correction.
In fact, my only
real complaint is that the format--small, odd-shaped, paperback--made it impossible for me to prop it up in my bookstand and read it while I was knitting. Which,
duh.
But, otherwise, it was a light, easy read. A good keep-in-your-purse-for-when-you're-standing-in-line kind of read. (Although, myself, I keep knitting in my purse for that.)
Comments (2)
at least one of the rest of her books is better - otherwise personally I think people should just read her blog archives (which is an easy way to read while knitting =) I have her second or third book, I don't remember which it is - which gives a lot of useful information and ways of calculating patterns and stuff, while still being amusing, but the first one I read in a bookstore - and it fell flat with me too...