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Chapter 28 (VOL 2, ch 3) of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, with many thanks to our reader, Barbara Edleman. Book talk begins at 15:30 minutes.

The first N&S episode is 331.

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June Raffle

Our June Giveaway is for Weaving Rag Rugs by Tom Knisley.
Follow this link to enter on our dedicated Raffle page. More on this book at the Mama O Knits Too Much blog.

Nanette the Nanny is raffling off a bunch of great books!

You can view the Lots to be raffled at the bottom of this page. The fun will begin next Monday the 23rd with at least one Lot going live each day of the week. Rules on how to bid will appear at the bottom of the Giveaway Page, so be sure to check it on Monday.

Details will also go out this weekend via the CraftLit newsletter, so if you are interested in any of the books but haven’t signed up for our emails, you might want to do that now. 

 

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Literary Links of Interest for this Chapter

• Traditional Clogs
  
• Candle-wax based Shoe Polish
• Revelation 14:1
• Isaiah 28:12
• Psalms 127:2
• ossed = tried
• ‘varsal = universal
• dreed = endured
• brossen = broken
• Job Chapter 14
• “sour grapes/teeth on edge” from Ezekiel 18:2

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Crafty Appearances Yet To Come

• I’ll be doing the Cognitive Anchoring talk 10:30am on June 21st, 2014 at Uniquities yarn store in 421-D Church Street, NE, Vienna, VA 22180.
• July 11, 2014 The Tangled Web Summer Camp Day One! 1–4pm for Defarge FOs, pattern-choice support and more! 7709 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118

 

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Listen (don’t watch–it won’t make sense, yet) to “Existential Blues”

Bleak House Bundles 1–4 are in the Shoppe. Each bundle is about 10 hours of audio. The fifth bundle is being compiled RIGHT NOW on the subscriber stream. It will take us until September 2014-or-so to finish the book… but you’ll have 40 hours (give or take) of listening between now and then.

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Nanette’s Book Raffles

You may recall last Fall when Nanette the Nanny came to my rescue and did All The Work to ship out all of my pre-orders of Grounded.

Well, now she needs a hand, too.To help her out, CraftLit, Vanessa at Survival Organs, and the MamaO Knits Too Much site are helping Nanette raffle off eight Lots of books-and-bags to raise money for a (surprise!!! and) suddenly necessary move.

Details on how to bid and win will post at MamaO Knits and via the CraftLit newsletter over the weekend.

We’ll start with Lot 1 on Monday, June 23rd and work our way through all eight Lots by Friday, June 27th, 2014.All of Nanette’s books are gently used and some are Very-Hard-To-Find-Out-Of-Print-Books!

Take a look below and see which ones float your boat. Dates for when each lot will become available are listed below.

Bidding time-windows are being finalized and will come out in the CraftLit’ newsletter this weekend.

Lot numbers below are links. Those links will ONLY work when the bidding begins.

The Lots are…