Reviews
I knew I had something to flail about. Book reviews!
I've had an IK subscription for a year now, and I think I won't renew. Instead, I think I'll spend my money on Twist Collective patterns. There are a couple good patterns, the Sidelines Top (princess seams!) and the Estes Vest. I really appreciate that they have added sweaters for curvy girls, but looking at the Sidelines top, I can see that although there is bust shaping, there is no short-rowing. In one of the pictures it's obvious that the front panel could use that. Dude, my 50-iinch circumference is not evenly distributed around my whole body. It's not that IK is BAD, it's just not speaking to me about what I want to be doing.
Hell & Earth, AKA Will and Kit's Bogus Journey, Pt 2.
Oh. My. God. All my usual disclaimers apply, about these not being the books for you if you are intolerant of literary wankery. I would also like to point out that I suspect they will make more sense if you have a grounding in the changing nature of God. "I believe in the hippie son of an angry Hebrew war-god". That said...
Oh, the heartbreaking beauty of this book. I devoured it in a day. Which, given that it's a 400-pg book and it was a work day, you can see that I did pretty much nothing else. And political intrigue! And delicious foreshadowing! And Amaranth! And the lovely conceit that all stories are true, somewhere, and that they affect the reality of Fairie. I mean, that's been touched on before, but this one is deliciously effectively used.
"No," Kit answered. "He could have been forgiven. Anyone can be forgiven, who repents. Faustus had opportunity, time, and chance to repent, again and again and again. But he never meant to. Never meant to repent, my lord [spoiler]."
:Then what was his fatal flaw, Sir Poet?: Lucifer's eyes sparkled. He tilted his head aside, lovelocks drifting against the exquisite curve of his neck. Enjoying the game.
" 'But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned,' " Kit quoted. "The serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus.' Faustus' flaw was the sin of Judas, who deemed his transgression too great to repent of, and thereby diminished the love of God, who can forgive any offense, so long as the sinner wishes forgiveness. Faustus sinned by hubris."
That! That right there! That's what made me twitter that I was crying, because it is so perfectly correct, so true, so chewy in the intersection of theology and literature. Believing you are unforgiveable is to diminish God's love. :waves arms madly.
Um, yeah. Start with Ink & Steel. Don't blame me if you have to take a day off.
I've had an IK subscription for a year now, and I think I won't renew. Instead, I think I'll spend my money on Twist Collective patterns. There are a couple good patterns, the Sidelines Top (princess seams!) and the Estes Vest. I really appreciate that they have added sweaters for curvy girls, but looking at the Sidelines top, I can see that although there is bust shaping, there is no short-rowing. In one of the pictures it's obvious that the front panel could use that. Dude, my 50-iinch circumference is not evenly distributed around my whole body. It's not that IK is BAD, it's just not speaking to me about what I want to be doing.
Hell & Earth, AKA Will and Kit's Bogus Journey, Pt 2.
Oh. My. God. All my usual disclaimers apply, about these not being the books for you if you are intolerant of literary wankery. I would also like to point out that I suspect they will make more sense if you have a grounding in the changing nature of God. "I believe in the hippie son of an angry Hebrew war-god". That said...
Oh, the heartbreaking beauty of this book. I devoured it in a day. Which, given that it's a 400-pg book and it was a work day, you can see that I did pretty much nothing else. And political intrigue! And delicious foreshadowing! And Amaranth! And the lovely conceit that all stories are true, somewhere, and that they affect the reality of Fairie. I mean, that's been touched on before, but this one is deliciously effectively used.
"No," Kit answered. "He could have been forgiven. Anyone can be forgiven, who repents. Faustus had opportunity, time, and chance to repent, again and again and again. But he never meant to. Never meant to repent, my lord [spoiler]."
:Then what was his fatal flaw, Sir Poet?: Lucifer's eyes sparkled. He tilted his head aside, lovelocks drifting against the exquisite curve of his neck. Enjoying the game.
" 'But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned,' " Kit quoted. "The serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus.' Faustus' flaw was the sin of Judas, who deemed his transgression too great to repent of, and thereby diminished the love of God, who can forgive any offense, so long as the sinner wishes forgiveness. Faustus sinned by hubris."
That! That right there! That's what made me twitter that I was crying, because it is so perfectly correct, so true, so chewy in the intersection of theology and literature. Believing you are unforgiveable is to diminish God's love. :waves arms madly.
Um, yeah. Start with Ink & Steel. Don't blame me if you have to take a day off.