wednesday reading discovered the printing press

[landofnowhere]

Which is to say: I finally made my way to the letterpress lab at the library, and now have some woodblock-printed signs saying "LOVE NOT FEAR" and "a11 that glitters is not gold" (oops on using the 1's for the frist two l's!). I should figure out what sort of printed items I actually want in my life beyond printing random messages). Anyway, short books update:

The Spirit Ring, Lois McMaster Bujold. That was fun, and very wholesome (for a book about necromancy, I mean). Will be interested to hear what book group has to say about it.

Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovksy. I'm maybe a third of the way in, and the story is starting to go somewhere, but I'm not yet sure where?

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

In the late 1970s (?) I took a class in how to use a letter press at Boston Center for Adult Education. Our class projects were supposed to be business cards, I think, but I made little "please come to tea" cards. I still think fondly of presses, but never tried it again.

[landofnowhere]

"Please come to tea" cards sound charming :-) The library press requires special training to use lead type, and the wood type is all larger, so it will be some time before I'm capable of making a business card that fits more than an e-mail address! (I now have actual business cards thanks to new job, but have not figured out yet what to do with them.) The library does have coasters for printing on, though I'm not yet at the level of gracious living where I've figured out what to do with coasters.

[lauradi7dw]

If you don't use coasters, how do you keep mugs or glasses from leaving rings on furniture?

[landofnowhere]

Um, the dining room table has placemats, and we don't have anything like a coffee table? (I feel like growing up we didn't have the sort of furniture that had issues with rings, though, either. But then the coffee table in my family's house is constantly covered with books and magazines, anyway.)