Title: Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life
Author: Annie Spence
Genre: Non-Fiction, Humor
About the Book...
Broken into two sections, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is collection of letters written by librarian Annie Spence followed by book recommendations, many which appear in the letters.
What I think...
Initially I was just going to skip around in this and read only the letters to titles I recognized, but I ended reading all the letters because they were so funny. Among my favorites were letters to the Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury, the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", a popcorn recipe book on its way to the book sale. I also thoroughly enjoyed her letters the harlequin romance spinner rack (from a personal library standpoint, I could relate to her feelings about it) and to the library in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. I was also happy to find a letter written to Langton's The Fledgling (book 4 in The Hall Family Chronicles), since so few people ever talk about any of her books. While most of the letters were enjoyable, there were a few I'd probably skip in a re-read of this, but overall considering that the majority of letters are only two or three pages and the book is smaller in size, I didn't feel like I'd wasted any time reading them in the first place.
The second part consisting of recommendations, I didn't care for all that much. Spence's tastes are a lot more modern and edgier than mine, so beyond maybe two or three classics she mentions and the book Little Big (which I'm always delighted to see mentioned because there so few complex and literary books that involve fairy lore out there) there was very little in this section that I cared about and I ended up just kind of skimming through.
To Sum it All Up...
Truly a book lover's book that will have you laughing over Spence's opinionated and often relatable feelings about the books she loves and some books she'd rather not have met! ♥️
A little belated in posting...I didn't get all that much sewing done this summer, but I did manage to fit in one beach themed shirt before the summer reached it's end.
When I found this cute crab print I instantly knew I it had to be used to make Simplicity 3223 from 1950.
Working with this pattern proved to be quite interesting, since everything you would normally fold inside the shirt as facing was folded to the outside and top stitched meaning that I really needed to be careful about things being just so. The curves on the armholes and the neck were a pain because of it, but, overall, they don't look too bad, in part I think due to the material being just busy enough to allow for tiny mistakes to go unnoticed.
The one exception to the facings ending up on the right side was with the plackets. After machine stitching hems on the sides, I hand stitched them to the shirt and think I did such a nice job on them that I'm subjecting you to a picture of one of them.
I did end up taking the time to get a near perfect print match on the pockets and while I tried on the button part it was cut at a slight angle, which only allowed for getting close to matching (very happy with it, though!).
I also ended up having the perfect vintage buttons for this! Because I don't have high waist shorts to match at the moment, I ended up having to add a snap at the bottom due to lack of any more buttons.
Of course, one needs a matching hair scarf and, as a finishing touch, I added a rope belt I've had taking up space in my trims box to get the perfect beachcomber look.
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Some older books have horribly dated covers, but end up being quite good. Others have horrible cover/inside flap descriptions and you get enjoyment from reading them because they're so bad.
This book from 1973 had a dated cover and a horrible description (the best part of the book, in my opinion), but fell far from being anything but badly written and not all that enjoyable. That being said I thought I would share both the cover and cover description.
I am particularly fond of the part that mentions the eggs being "reissued," which really had very little to do with the story.
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If one buys Cotton+Steel fabric with keys and keyholes, should one use it to make a dress with a keyhole neckline to continue the theme?
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