Snark - it's not only for romance novels

My other job involves using my crafty little fingers not for tapping away on the keyboard, but snipping, pinning, and stitching.

I thought y'all might appreciate the universal phenomenon that is Snark: Threadbared

Heres a taste:

My Hands Are Already Tired and I Haven't Even Gotten to the Fat Pants Section

I'm totally digging this idea of using the magic of needlepoint to clearly define each item of clothing in one's closet. I mean, sure it could be time consuming to needlepoint a closet full of hangers, but take a look at that hanger at the top. What do you think hangs on that hanger? Is it Aunt Betty's bingo skirt? Is it the whore dress that makes Grandma sweat over her rosary every time Janet wears it to Whiskey River? Is it Mom's mom jeans? No, clearly it's Adam's Coat.

This clarity of closet inspired me to work on some hangers for my own stuff. Here's what I have so far:

I think the Bitchery and the Bared would get along quite well.

Books, glorious books!

I having been browsing blogs (got to love feedburner!) and spied a little section on Racy Li's blog about planning to keep a track of what she has read this year, and I thought to myself that might just be an interesting idea.

So Racy, I am shamelessly stealing your little idea, with a few twists. I enjoy a few snark blogs, and although I think I could snark with the best of them, I would rather spend my time creating manuscripts for others to snark. So I am going to simplify my snark.

There will be three lists: Books I have finished, Books I read half way through, then skipped to the last two chapters, and finally Books that were such a trainwreck that I probably finished them and wish I hadn't, and now want my money back.

Now, I'm not an author snob, you might find an author in all three piles. I will generally give a well published author a second try, although I have encountered a few I won't touch again with a barge poll.

The sad thing? This will be the first time I have actually kept a tally of books and I am really not looking forward to seeing how much a really do read.