You have had some great suggestions, but I can't help myself. I want to add The Arrival by Shaun Tan. Technically, it is a wordless picture book. But it transcends the picture book genre in my opinion.

No advice, just commiseration. I have a similar problem. I followed the directions someone gave me, but get an error message saying that I do not have permission to post images :(

This is almost us. We have been parenting at least one teen continuously since 2004, and the current teen turns 20 in 2020. But only a max of two-teens-at-a-time.

My initial post was three weeks ago, and I am ready to give an update :) I watched and analyzed a bunch of beginner videos, but helped me the most. But after two weeks on my own, I was still mucking it up, and it wasn't until I was able to sit down with my mom that I had an ah-ha moment of clarity on the single crochet. But my mom has been doing this for over 50 years, and it is hard for her to explain what she is able to do without even thinking about it. So I watched her hands, and that helped a lot. My goal is to do amigurumi, and my mom has never done that. She is going to help me figure out the "magic chain" while I am here, which will also be a new technique for her. But the coolest part was her surprise and delight when I told her that I was finally going to learn how to crochet :) This is the book I bought to inspire and motivate me: Literary Yarns: Crochet Projects Inspired By Classic Books. Always thinking ten steps ahead of my ability, I think that once I master the techniques in this book I could design my own characters.

I am at my mom's house, and she is helping me learn how to crochet (x-post here ). The thing is, she makes afghans and I want to make critters and little people. So she has a bit of a challenge, too. In the end, I think it will be good that we make different things. Literary Yarns is the book I bought, and I am so excited to figure this out! ETA: I tried to post the book cover but got the error message saying that I am "not allowed to use that image extension on this community."

I love and appreciate Goodreads, but I also cherish my pens and notebooks. I have shelves and boxes filled with notebooks - some are full, some are empty, some are partially completed. I have also sent PLENTY of pages to the shredder over the years.

Same here, except that I signed up for the half-price (parental grading) option and my welcome email did not give me access to any answers. I have sent an email requesting clarification. Bust so far, all I have paid is $15.00 and I was also wondering when my next invoice will come.

I don't know, but I am pretty sure that I will be thinking about it all day :lol: .

I can't immediately jump from a fantasy novel to another fantasy novel, or a NF to another NF. I guess I handle it by keeping multiple books across several genres going at once. I'm not much of an audiobook person, but I finished listening to Palace of Illusions this week while I was on a long drive, and I tried to start another audiobook on the same drive and just couldn't focus on it. I turned it off after one chapter, even though I think it will be good.

I really really really wish that I would have kept a record of every book that I had ever read. I have kept lists in fits and starts, and titles are also scattered amongst other writings. I would very much like to aggregate them. I did start a separate bullet journal for books in January, and I have thought about starting a master, neverending list in a new notebook that would at least capture what I can recall reading. Thanks for the nudge :) I'm sure that I am not the only stationery nerd here,right? One of my favorite such websites is Notebook Stories.

A young woman I know (30ish) is one of their stylists, and she has been very successful with them. I have known this young woman since she was in middle school, and she has always had an impressive sense of style.

As I was packing for my month-long trip to NC, I had to make a decision about W&P. It did not make the cut, so I suppose this is my official withdrawal notice from the read-a-long. It goes back on my TBR list. I realized that reading it "behind schedule" was going to just frustrate me and possibly subject me to spoilers. This way, I can just scroll past the discussion and by the time I get around to reading it, I will have forgotten any spoilers. Right now, I want to focus on finishing my Bingo card /Goodreads challenge and foreign language studies. And start reading for the 2017-2018 school year. In the bag: Laurus by Evgenij Vodolazkin (which continues to delight - review will follow) Ronja Røverdatter (Danish version of Astrid Lindgren's Ronia the Robber's Daughter) Brødrene Løvehjerte (Danish version of Astrid Lindgren's The Brother's Lionheart) History of Danish Dreams by Peter Høeg (in English) Walden Learning Russian Lingua Latina Grammatik i Brug (Danish grammar workbook) DS's Algebra II textbook TM (because we are still finishing up math for this year) DS's 2017-2018 Precalc textbook Various and sundry notebooks and preferred writing instruments All of the above are physical books. So obviously, I am driving not flying. Now that the important stuff has been decided, I will see if there is room in the car for anything else of mine. :lol:

Dear weather gods, please bring some sunny and calm weather to Southern Japan. I hope you hear good news from him soon, Jenn W.

That is gorgeous :) I remember when you started it, but I didn't realize that it was your first project. I am still struggling to learn, but I will keep trying.

My mom lives in on the coast in the NC alligator zone. Do you know if it is true that the northernmost habitat for NC alligators is Wilmington?

Am I correct that the access is based on the student's physical location not the location where the exam is taken? We live on the East Coast but DS took the exam at an international location because we were overseas on the exam date.

I got rid of four boxes of books this week, and it felt oh-so-good. I have a big box of curricula that I will try to sell.

That is such awesome news, Rose. Congrats to you and Shannon.

I'm still planning to read W & P, but I haven't even opened it yet. I knew I would not be able to read it on the schedule. I expect to like it - I liked The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilych, and Anna Karenina. And anyway, I still need an over-500-pages for my bingo card :) -- I really need to do a better job remembering who here led me to a book so I can thank them properly. I started Laurus today and it has pulled me in immediately. I just can't remember who had recommended it!

Ah- ha! Well, I am feeling increasingly dumber by the moment. OK, so I actually read Black Panther Book One, which has, I think, four comics in it. Just to confound me further, the description of Book 1 is Volume VII :confused1: , which apparently hearkens back to previous Black Panther authors. Black Panther #1 is presumably just the first part of Book One. Then there is Book 2 and Book 3. Your patience and explanations are much appreciated, Jenn W!

Thanks, Jenn W. I really did feel like I was just not getting it rather than feeling like it was not well done. After I read it, I looked at the reviews on Goodreads. Not surprisingly, there were a number of I-don't-usually-read-comics-but-I-love-Coates readers like me who also confused by the story. Considering that it took almost no time to read. I will give it another go-through before taking it back to the library. I do occasionally read graphic novels, and thinking out loud now I am not even really sure where the line is between comics and graphic novels.

I read comic book Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and had to leave it unrated on Goodreads. I found it confusing, but I am not a comic book reader nor do I like Super Hero stories. I read it because (1) I think Ta-Nehisi Coates is a brilliant writer and (2) it filled a spot in my library's summer challenge. And I am willing to accept that the problem might be me :) I tried to think about it like someone reading complicated poetry who isn't used to poetry. I just couldn't "get it." At all.

Mrs. Darcy's quiz says that I am a Discoverer. I think that fits well enough :)

I finished Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family last night, and am looking forward to the book club discussion tonight. Nicole Maines is a confident young woman, and I love that about her. I also watched her TED talk, Transgender: You're Part of the Story. But it was the story of the family that really pulled me in. I spent a lot of time thinking about the decisions and sacrifices that were made by each individual for the sake of the family, and I appreciated reading about the individual struggles as well as the impact on the fabric of the family as a whole. But when Mom and the twins moved 2+ hours away from Dad so the kids could escape a toxic school environment only to attend a middle school that was merely a different flavor of toxic, I was baffled. Admittedly, I wanted to shout at the book: What about homeschooling?! One of my IRL friends has suggested that I now read This is How It Always Is, a novel about a family with a transgender child. I have added that to my TBR list. Hoping to start W&P today!

Quill, welcome to the group/thread! I am certainly not one of the prodigious readers here, but I have found that participating has really upped my output. I started in the BaW threads this past January. In 2016 (pre-BaW participation), I completed 16 books. And here we are only 1/2 way through 2017, and Goodreads tells me that I have finished 37 so far this year.