Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History | 
Charlotte Cooper, the British gold medalist in both the tennis singles and mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics in 1900, played in a tight-fitting, ankle-length skirt, a blouse buttoned up to her neck and down to her wrists, a corset and heeled shoes.
#bookspin for November! Some October holdovers and a backlog of cozy mysteries.
Modest points this week but I‘ve been dead busy. 452 total for 4 hours of reading, 1 spooky show (the Halloween episode of Jessie, “The Whining”), 260 game points, wrapping up Toucan Keep a Secret, reading the Little Golden Book “The Haunted Mansion” to the little, and 2 participation points. Tomorrow I am getting on a plane headed to NC and VA!
#TeamSlaughter Week 2 = 452 points 🎃 👻 🔪 🦜
@WanderingBookaneer came home from her #indie visit with some gifts for me! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
1- tagged book plus The River, Paper and Ink, and a fair dose of fanfiction 😆
2- Disappearing Earth, The Family Upstairs, American Sherlock
3- sort of: our sweet old lady died a month ago but my son lives here with his giant doggo
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
Starting this tonight. 🤩
Got myself a Christmas present while I was shopping. That's how it works, right?! 😁
so-soThis book started strong, got bogged down in the middle and fizzled at the end. It felt like the author starts with a history of cloth and ends with commentary on sports. I wanted more about the history and development of synthetic fibers and less than on random history of specific products. I give this a 2/5 stars
pickHmm, I didn't pick up her previous book since I thought it seemed to glance off the surface too much, from a brief flip through it in Waterstones. Now I wish I had picked it up, if it's like this one -- just the right degree of breadth vs depth, and very easy to read too. Thing I didn't know: Viking sails were made of wool.
Learnt so much about textile history from this book and loved every minute of it.
