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331--Sorry Mister Jakes! With apologies to John Jakes, we are reading Elizabeth Gaskell's , chapter 1, with many thanks to our reader, . Book talk begins at 16 minutes. If the iTunes feed ever goes down, please head over to the . February Giveaway You have until February 28th to win a copy of Crochet Wraps Every Which Wayby Joanna Johnson. December winner was Lisa P. is still available (and free!). If you have recipes to add, please . Grounded ALL eight of the—are now in ! . To keep on top of new socks, shawls, and sock puppet theater (you heard me) join the (very infrequently used) ! . . . . | | | — current subscriber book, Charles Dickens' (not so) and the first chunk of is (it'll be a bit between chunks—looong book). Literary Links of Interest for this chapter: Margaret mentions The New Forest which is located in the counties of Hampshire and Dorset, between the major cities of Christchurch to the west and Southampton to the east. You can see why Margaret would have liked it. Our Sponsors: Crafty News: Podcaster Throwdown Not a knitter? Don't have time to make a hat? will be equal to 1 hat contributed to their chosen team. All monies raised through this initiative will help us to ship the 2,000+ hats that we hope are received through this campaign. $5 ships 16 hats to a center in need. New KALs happening right now. . General News: I'll be presenting this Sunday at 10am Eastern at the The has been going great guns. To find out why knitting and crocheting and doodling is good for your brain, take a look. There's a new for CraftLit! Scary Mary Zentagling Now in the , many audiobooks with benefits which were originally available only to : , , , , and . is also there. If you want to subscribe to support the show, you can or . Same content, either way. Want a button?

(Apologies although I blathered quite a bit anyway...) This week, chapters 2-3! from Dawn, some victorian pruditry, more wonderful emails from y'all, how to be an ostritch rather than a governess, and on our author. His dad was a (say THAT three times fast) and I thought--when working through the "ghost" question-- was ellucidating: Although James had rejected in the beginning of his career "spirit-rappings and ghost-raising", in the 1880s he become interested in the unconscious and the supernatural. In 1908 he wrote that "Peter Quint and Miss Jessel are not 'ghosts' at all, as we now know the ghost, but goblins, elves, imps, demons as loosely constructed as those of the old trials for whichcraft; if not, more pleasingly, fairies of the legendary order, wooing their victims forth to see them dance under the moon." Virginia Woolf thought that Henry James's ghost have nothing in common with the violent old ghosts - "the blood-stained captains, the white horses, the headless ladies of dark lanes and windy commons." Edmund Wilson was convinced that the story was "primarily intended as a characterization of the governess". Then there's the "corruption" question. Ah...the tangled web... ALERT: I just this second got this email from MaryBeth--right after uploading the 'Cast. Darnit. But it's worth noting here: Loved your comments on the Fog Index. I'm a technical editor, and I have the following quote by Melville on my wall at work: "A man of true science uses but few hard words, and only those when none other will serve his purpose; whereas the smatterer in science thinks that by mouthing hard words he proves that he understands hard things." Is that not brilliant?! I love Melville...but I'm not gonna do Moby Dick...not for a couple of years, anyway. See how I love you? Many thanks to for her SEXY reading of Henry James' Turn of the Screw.

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