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Here's a recent small project I finished: a reading pillow. I bought the green handwoven fabric over the summer (wrote about it here) and couldn't bear to use it for its intended purpose (imagining instant lasagne contact, etc) So I sewed it up into a cover for a big fat feather pillow and reading happiness and comfort was the result. Tom makes more time for reading than I do, so it mostly lives on his side of the bed.

I recently finished Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent, which took me to 1820s Iceland. It's beautifully written, I loved it.

I have a beautiful hardback edition of The Mijo Tree by Janet Frame, along with some New Yorker magazines I found at the second-hand bookshop on the bedside table too.

And I'm making my way through A Modern Way to Eat, by Anna Jones. Will write more about this soon, specifically, spaghetti recipes of note.

What are you reading these days? 

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10 responses to “for reading”

  1. Mousy Brown Avatar
    Mousy Brown

    That looks so comfy! I’m reading about 20 books at once as usual…I am so not a monogamous reader…loving “toast and marmalade and other stories” by Emma Bridgewater and “down to earth” by Rhonda Hetzel, I just started a book from school that I’m enjoying so far “triskellion” by Will Peterson and working my way through “the trickster’s hat” by nick bantock, to mention just a few of them…

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  2. Emma Avatar
    Emma

    I loved The Mijo Tree – it was a Christmas present a couple of years ago. Right now I’m about to crak into To Kill A Mockingbird – one of a very long list of classics I’ve never read.

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  3. Emma Avatar
    Emma

    P.S I do know how to spell crack.

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  4. Lynn Avatar
    Lynn

    I’ve just bought Weathering by Lucy Wood, the cover is so beautiful and I’m waiting for just the right moment to start it, sometimes you have to do that with books you know are going to be special.

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  5. Heidi Avatar
    Heidi

    I am reading ‘What I talk about when I talk about running’ by Haruki Murakami and loving it. I am a fan of his fiction and am enjoying the glimpse of the man behind the books tremendously.

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  6. Catherine Avatar
    Catherine

    I’ve just bought Americanah by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie. I love her writing. I am waiting to get over this hideous cold to start it. I want to remember what I read.

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  7. Frau Kirschkernzeit Avatar
    Frau Kirschkernzeit

    I’m someone, who loves the written word, to read or to arrange it myself (mostly while blogging these days…), but I actually have only a few books that I relly read. Time is so percious with four (soon to be five) childern in the house and I try to get my fix in form of writing rather then reading, I noticed.
    But there ARE books.
    And I treasure every one of them truely, like one should do with luxury like this.
    At the moment it’s Molly Wizenbergs book “A homemade Life”. What a book! What a woman! And how she manages to go on and on and one with one single little topic- and never letting my attention go, like someone who’s got a big fat fish at the rod… She’s an amazing storyteller and I enjoyed every single line of her book.

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    karen

    I’m reading a variety of childrens books especially NZ ones to my four and a half year old and two week old grandaughters (sp?)Love it!
    Cheers
    Karen
    Newcastle NSW

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  9. muenzeeins Avatar
    muenzeeins

    what a compfy beautiful cushion! I really like your fabric association! and I can really imagine how great it must be to rest the head on it and read on :)… for the moment it’s not a “real” read, as it is a comic series, but it’s brilliant, especially when you have kids and ar exhausted at the end of the day, it’s Richard Thompson’s “Cul de Sac” series..; can only recommend it! oh and the quilt the glances out under the cushion looks lovely! homemade?

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  10. lizzie Avatar
    lizzie

    Loved Burial Rites but it was harrowing. I am reading all of E Annie Proulx and have just finished The Shipping News…..not a new book but if you have nt read it I can highly recommend it. Just started on Postcards. Don t know what has taken me so long to get to this wonderful writer.
    How to Be Both by Ali Smith is wonderful but challenging..
    Hilary Mantel s Wolf Hall if you have nt read it……….

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