My shop!

Following suggestions from various gift-recipients, I've set up a shop on Folksy for beach-tat jewellery. let me show you it. Suggestions, comments, expressions of interest all gratefully received! (Hopefully, this'll fund my jewellery-making habit ...)

2010/58: Cycler -- Lauren McLaughlin

Cycler -- Lauren McLaughlin

"I don't see people as male or female. I just see people ... Don't you think the world has expended enough energy keeping men and women separate, trying to convince us we're from Mars or Venus? For what? We're from Earth. Why does it have to matter so much?"
I have no answer, only a deep, almost physical aversion to the idea. (p. 116)

( non-spoilery review )

2010/59: Sherlock in Love -- Sena Jeter Naslund

Sherlock in Love -- Sena Jeter Naslund

Holmes was dead: to begin with. And had been dead for well onto two years. And who was I without Holmes? He had been my dearest friend. He had served as that fixed point around which my life as a storyteller revolved. (p. 3)

( non-spoilery review )

2010/60: The Icarus Girl -- Helen Oyeyemi

The Icarus Girl -- Helen Oyeyemi

"Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do, they eat each other up. It is the same with one person who is hungry and another who is full: they cannot be real, real friends because the hungry one will eat the full one. You understand?"
"Yes, grandfather." She was scared, now, because she knew he wasn't talking about food-hungry...
"Only two people who are full up can be friends. They don't want anything from each other except friendship." (p. 226)

( non-spoilery review )