Marlo Hamrick.
Marlo's employment in the
Watermark Cafe serves as cover for her secret agent activities. (You can
keep a secret, can't you?) She likes revolution, tattoos, and handicrafts.
Sometimes, Marlo's knitting stitches incorporate codes and ciphers, like that
one episode of "Scooby-Doo" in which the sweet lady on the Orient Express was
running codes across the Caucasus. Marlo is that lady's granddaughter.
Currently reading
Unless by Carol Shields.
Beautiful.
Winter 2007
The Tea House Fire by Ellis Avery.
Summer 2006
Man Stealing for Fat Girls
by Michelle Embree.
Where were the books like this
when I was in high School?
December 2005
Sex Wars by Marge Piercy.
Amazing!
The People's Act of Love by
James Meek.
November 2005
The Electric Michelangelo
by Sarah Hall.
It's a novel about
tattoos. Awesome. Plus, the first line hooked me. Amazing! The book
follows a boy who grows up in a hotel for consumptives and becomes a major
attraction as the best tattoo
artist at Coney Island. It's an intricate story, wonderfully told.
The People's Act of Love by
James Meek.
I'm eager to read other books
shortlisted for the Booker Prize
after having read The Electric Michelangelo. It's unbelievable how
much I loved that book. I'm hoping that the other shortlisted books will be
as well crafted. How could they not?
Pride and Prejudice by Jane
Austen.
October 2005
Vuelo del cisne by Rosario
Ferre.
Bodacious Book of Succulence:
Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild Life by SARK:
Read review
Weekend Knitting Projects by Melanie Falick:
Read review
Stitch 'N Bitch Nation by Debbie Stoller:
Read review
September 2005
Out by Natsuo Kirino:
Read review
Stitch 'N Bitch by Debbie
Stoller:
Read review
