I love the Leslie Crewe books. I went to her new book launch before Christmas and thoroughly enjoyed meeting her. She’s just lovely.

You described the book perfectly. I absolutely loved the Spoon Stealer !!! I've read many Lesley Crewe novels . The Spoon Stealer is my favorite ❤

I just started The Spoon Stealer...many thanks for the review and recommendation (and for the smiles while listening to your discussions about all the books ☺️).

I enjoy you ladies so much! You have me laughing out loud!

Hi Kim, I went out and purchased Moby Dick to read, based on your reading. So someone is reading it! 😄 I tried years ago and put it aside, but hearing Simone speak of purpose of a book at the time it was written - an opportunity to savour given costs - has led me to try again. Having said that, it is on my TBR list. What I do with my TBR is I have all the titles in a Tupperware container and each month I shake it and then choose a slip of paper and that is the one I read that month. So whenever it is chosen is when it will get read.

Agatha Christie: Two years ago I did a deep dive into her novels, which are often different from a film or stage production. She was an extraordinarily original writer, something we don’t give her credit for today. She invented the prototypes that we are so familiar with now….think of Death in Paradise, for example, which follows Christie’s formula of the brilliant detective gathering everyone in the living room and going through/discarding each suspect as he finally gets to the Guilty One. Just recently I listened to a series of lectures by a - I think - University of Arizona professor on Christie’s life and work. I wish I could point you to it, but I can’t remember whether I listed to it or watched it - Great Courses? Podcast? If you can find that lecture series, listen to it - really interesting and deepens appreciation for Christie’s imaginative and powerful influence on literature.

😂Oh I never noticed that before!!!😂 Guess I am so engrossed in what you all are saying❤I do love your program and I know I’d love shopping at your wonderful yarn shop in your woolen mill on your sheep farm 😊❤

I have the kids' picture book of Eats Shoots and Leaves, which was a delightful book to read to my students when I taught. Laughter abounded. 😊 I put my name on my library's wait list for the Spoons book. Thank you for the recommendation, Kim. I just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures by Van Pelt; I enjoyed the story and characters, especially the Octopus! Happy reading, all!

I couldn’t agree more about Mobey Dick. It has long been in my list of painful reads. I love reading and don’t shy away from difficult and meaningful works but am often flummoxed as to why some books have been so acclaimed. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is another in my opinion . A classic I have always loved is Great Expectations, if you can tolerated Dickens’ old English style. A modern author I love if you ladies haven’t tried any of her books is Kate Morton. Every one of her novels is a treasure. Love your podcasts so much😊

Love the book recommendations! I added Mastery and Spoon Stealers to my TBR list :)

I always have David Suchet pictured in my mind for Poirot. He was so good in that role.

I am so excited I found your podcast! After many of my tried and true knitting podcasts have gone on hiatus, I started looking for new ones. I found Fleece and Harmony Knitting first and yall immediately jumped to the top of my favorites. I was fortunate that You Tube queued up Harmony Reads afterward and I have binge watched all of those podcasts. I did want to comment that Tea Obright's Tiger's Wife is one of my favorite books. You mentioned that it was finalist for the National Book Award in 2011. I highly recommend Salvage the Bones, the winner of the award that year. It is not a feel good happy novel but dark and visceral. It is about a teenaged girl living in poverty right before Hurricane Katrina. Don't read it when you are in a mood for rainbows and lemon drops. That said, both books are in my top 10 favorites for different reasons and I would have hated having to choose between the two books for the National Book Award. Again, thanks for taking the time to share both podcasts - you have a new fan!

David suchet is brilliant! The documentary around the last episode brought me to tears!

Hi guys, well done for finishing Moby Dick, personally it comes under the category of ‘life’s too short to………’ but I applaud your dedication. On a lighter note if you love detective stories you have to read the Cormorant Strike novels by Robert Galbraith. They have been made into a T V series as well. The TV series is fantastic, but the books are even better. The author writes under a pseudonym, and she really is a great writer🎉🎉.

Oh how I look forward to spending Saturday mornings with the three of you! Whether knitting or reading I love watching to you. Wishing we were closer. I’m in a town in Indiana. 😊❤

Thank you ladies. I always enjoy listening to your chatter about books and knitting.

You ladies are hilarious! Thanks for bringing up author Lesley Crewe.I checked her out on Good Reads and picked a few books of hers that I’d like to read. Otherwise there haven’t been any books you suggested besides Agatha Christie that I’d be interested in reading. I don’t know if you have heard of Linwood Barclay? I believe he’s a Canadian Author and he’s very good. Freida McFadden is very good checkout her book Housemaid. Thank for the great entertainment.

Punctuation: « Have you eaten, grandma? » « Have you eaten grandma? » A book by Gyles Brandreth. Very funny. ❤

Great episode!

This is not about this episode but a previous episode! And also not about knitting! A couple of weeks back you all mentioned Quality Street candies. I had never heard of this candy before. The very next day I was catching up on the British Doc Martin show. The policeman Penhale was handing out Quality Street candies to bribe people to tour his police station - sadly no one wants to tour the station, but they do want the Quality Street candies! I love when things connect!!

I laughed so much hearing we had grandma for dinner ... Thanks for all the laughters 💝

What a wonderful time I had watching and listening to you. Your laughter and joy of reading is highly contagious 😂❤❤

That was a good one this morning, serendipity, love it. I am almost 68 yrs old and all my life have only read for learning or on things about human behaviour with all its psychology. But last year you girls inspired me to read for the sake of reading so I started at my library, read 4 books from November to Jan 1. I found it difficult to choose titles at first. Couldn't believe it. Now, I have books coming at me from all manner of places, encouraged by lovely people I've just met and loved in an instant. They are beginning to switch on a different thinking for me and connect, just love it. Thanks.

Made me think of the little kid at dinner table saying I hate granny s gut s father answers well leave them to the side of the plate Thoroughly enjoyed again thank you

David Suchet is my picture of the perfect Hercule Poirot, as well. 😊

Well this was a blast! Found myself having fun chuckling along with you

Reading to enjoy art. ❤ May I suggest Carol Shields?

I had to chuckle when you were talking about unusual character names. Starbuck is the name of a very small town in Southeast Washington State, USA

Moby Dick sounds like a parallel to the world today. Why dont the people around stop the carnage? The hell--bent maniacal revenge. On the other hand I LOVE Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot has the most intriguing mysteries, Miss Marple always has some cosiness so I love to read or watch her with a cup of tea by the fire but the best mysteries by Christie are Tommy and Tuppence - N or M is bone chilling! Some how the tense situations of Tommy and Tuppence doesn't seem to come across in the TV Series and not many of them have been filmed either.

THANK YOU for the ‘Spoon Stealer’ recommendation! I’m nearly finished and dragging it out because I don’t want it to end. 😩 It is one of those books that becomes an instant favorite, like ‘The Help’. I’m reading from a library book now, but must own my own copy. And all the readers in my life are getting a copy too! I will get more from Leslie Crewe. Kim, you gave the same review of ‘Moby Dick’ that I’ve given many times. It was a 40-page short story! But that wouldn’t have been nearly as memorable. 😉 I read the punctuation book back in the day. Would have completely forgotten until you showed the cover. I confess- if I don’t like the cover, I’m probably not going to read the book unless it’s highly recommended. (But that motorcycle book could be studded in diamonds and I’m still not reading that one, Simone. Just sayin’.) Thanks, ladies.

I have tried but never managed to get through Moby Dick. However, a classic that I love to re-read is The Count of Monte Christo. None of the movies even come close to how great it is, although there was a French TV mini-series that did a decent job, starring Gerard Depardieu. I can't recommend it enough.

I picked up The Spoon Stealer (on my Kobo e-reader - coupon waiting to be used!) after watching your previous podcast. It is a terrific read! Very hard to put down. I made the mistake of picking it up after I got into bed. The next thing I know, it is 4 AM! Gah! Good thing I am retired 🤪. Have you read anything by British writer Matt Haig? "The Radleys," "The Midnight Library," "The Humans" All very good. "Reasons to Stay Alive" documents his journey living with depression and severe anxiety. Quite an eye-opening read. His kids' Christmas stories are quite good too. I read Jann Arden's "The Bittlemores". Not bad, but a few perspective issues. So many books and not near enough hours in the day to read! Even with retirement! Another Canadian author worth a read is Waubgeshig Rice. "Moon of the Crusted Snow" and "Moon of the Turning Leaves" are a look at a post-apocalyptic Canada/world. Who can survive winter in a world without communication and modern conveniences? Who indeed! Loving the podcast! The book recommendations and the ones that might be worth a skip! Again, there is so much to read! Bette

Btw I had a bit of a challenge finding you this morning as two sweaters same as last time😊😂😅❤🎉

Tadhg is pronounced Tig as in tiger. I named my son tadhgain and call Him teagan. He will often use tad or tim for ease of others like at Starbucks for example. Its a gaelic name.

I have read 2 books that are sort of related to Moby Dick . One is called In The Heart of the Ocean. It is the story of the wreck of the ship named Essex which is the real life event that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick . I have also read Ahabs wife . It is afictional story about the life of Captain Ahab"s wife. Both books are way more entertaining than Moby Dick.

This is funny, after I watched your session on the book 'Moby Dick", the podcast video came up in my youtube list - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNOjgcyaqLPeg58.html - The Story explaining Moby Dick. Very interesting. Love your reading podcasts.