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Current Projects and Deadlines

March 2012
5 Farmer's Wife Blocks
~~Blocks for March block lotto~~
~~at least one charity baby quilt top~~
Rainbow Scrap Challenge March FG block
work on cat quilt
April 2012
~~Blocks for April block lotto~~
~~at least one charity baby quilt top~~
Rainbow Scrap Challenge April FG block
work on cat quilt
~~next round for Cotton Robin~~
May 2012
Blocks for May block lotto
at least one charity baby quilt top
Rainbow Scrap Challenge May FG block
work on cat quilt
two baby quilts
put together at least one backing for longarming

What I've been reading 2011-2012

These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer (re-read)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman (re-read)
Five People you Meet in Heaven, Mitch Ablom
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
Started Early, Took my Dog, Kate Atkinson
Dragonharper Trilogy, Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
The Girl of his Dreams, Donna Leon
The Somnambulist, Essie Fox
Becoming Jane Eyre, Sheila Kohler
The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
Day of the Bees, Thomas Sanchez
The Sea Change, Elizabeth Jane Howard
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
Sleep Toward Heaven, Amanda Eyre Ward
The Prince of Mist, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Hand that First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell (pbg, Feb 12)
Girl Reading, Katie Ward
The Death Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld
The Travelling Horn Player, Barbara Trapido (re-read, pbg Jan 12)
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
Dark Assassin, Anne Perry
The Sealed Letter, Emma Donohue
Deadly Decisions, Kathy Reichs
The Whisperer, Donato Carrisi
God of the Hive, Laurie King
Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel
The Help, Kathryn Stockett (half)
The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht (pbc Dec 11)
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick de Witt
Death du Jour, Kathy Reichs
Blue Poppies, Jonathan Falla
The Piano Teacher, Janice Y K Lee
Cage of Stars, Jacquelyn Mitchard (pbg Nov 11)
Deja Dead, Kathy Reichs
A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh
The Shifting Tide, Anne Perry
The Riddle and the Knight, Giles Milton
The Great Lover, Jill Dawson
December, Elizabeth Winthrop
The Mathematics of Love, Emma Darwin
The Brutal Art, Jesse Kellerman
When God Was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman
The School of Night, Louis Bayard
The Long Song, Andrea Levy
The Winter Ghosts, Kate Mosse
The Lake Shore Limited, Sue Miller
Waiting for Columbus, Thomas Trofimuk
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
The Year of Eating Dangerously, Tom Parker Bowles
Underfoot in Show Business, Helene Hanff (pbg July 11)
The Summer of the Bear, Bella Pollen
Grace Williams Says it Loud, Emma Henderson
Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
The Red House Mystery, A A Milne
Luncheon of the Boating Party, Susan Vreeland
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Steig Larsson
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (part)
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
Dancing Backwards, Salley Vickers
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson
City of the Mind, Penelope Fitzgerald
Clare, Janice Galloway
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
The Twisted Root, Anne Perry (re-read)
Whited Sepulchres, Anne Perry (re-read)
Weighed in the Balance, Anne Perry (re-read)
The Silent Cry, Anne Perry (re-read)
Cain his Brother, Anne Perry (re-read)
Sins of the Wolf, Anne Perry (re-read)
A Sudden Fearful Death, Anne Perry (re-read)
Solar, Ian MacEwan
One Day, David Nicholls (pbg Mar 11)
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
The Rector's Daughter, F.M. Mayer
The Other Hand, Chris Cleave (pbg Feb 11)
Defend and Betray, Anne Perry (re-read)
A Dangerous Mourning, Anne Perry (re-read)
Face of a Stranger, Anne Perry (re-read)
Howard's End is on the Landing, Susan Hill
C, Tom McCarthy
The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt

Hypothetical playlist (what songs I might be listening to right now)

Rolling in the Deep (Adele)
Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
Drumming Song (Florence and the Machine)
Starlings (Elbow)
Dance me to the end of love (Leonard Cohen)
How to Save a Life (The Fray)
Dream Catch Me (Newton Faulkner)
Marlene on the Wall (Suzanne Vega)
Hey There Delilah (Plain White Tees)
Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
The Obvious Child (Paul Simon)
Til the Sun Turns Black (Ray La Montagne)
Rehab (Amy Winehouse)
Moondance (Van Morrisson)
Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)
New Shoes (Paolo Nutini)
Mrs Potter's Lullaby (Counting Crows)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Late Night Radio (Mary Black)
Town Called Malice (Paul Weller/Jam)
Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads)
When you were Young (the Killers)
In the Morning (Razorlight)
Nettie Moore (Dylan)
Caravan of Love (Housemartins)
Chelsea Dagger (Fratellis)
Ziggy Stardust (Bowie)
America (Razorlight)
Under the Bridge (RHCP)
I Try (Macy Gray)
Many Rivers to Cross (UB40)
River (Joni Mitchell)
Fragile (Sting)
Tangled up in Blue (Dylan)
Chasing Cars (Snowpatrol)
Anna Begins (Counting Crows)
Long Black Veil (Dave Matthews Band)
To Lay me Down (Cowboy Junkies)
Yellow (Coldplay)

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

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