Book Talk Starts at 38:55 Recorded on May 25, 2016   Book Talk starts at:   Our Mother Bear KAL/CAL starts on June 1!  Any Mother Bears that you have knit or crocheted in 2016 are eligible for prizes in our KAL.  Please go to the Mother Bear Project Homepage to request your pattern, under the tab "How to Help".  We hope you will join us!   We want to thank SSKnits (Joan) for her prize donation for the Mother Bear KAL.  She is donating a pattern of the winner's choice from her Ravelry Store and Knit Figures, her newly designed knitting app!   Tracie and Barb will be at Spinning at the Winery on Saturday,  June 4 at the Retzlaff Winery in Livermore, CA.  This is a fun, relaxed fiber event with a vendor fair, raffle, wine and a great potluck lunch.  The cost is $5 person.  Don't forget: * sunscreen and a hat * a potluck dish to share * Whatever you would like to drink (wine is available for purchase) Come and join us! Please go over to the Actually Knitting Podcast Group to find out information about joining in the PalKal (the Podcaster-Along Knit Along).  Dates for this KAL will be 6/15/16 - 9/15/16. KNITTING Barb has finished: * Schknit Happens Hat #3 by Myra Wood, using Fishknits Warm Heart 2-ply in the Cadillac colorway. *  Mother Bear #75   Tracie has finished: *  Drizzle hat by MelSki, using her own handspan *  Mother Bears # 73, 74 & 75.   Barb is continuing to work on: Crackerjack Cowl by Stacie Simpson Duke in 4 colors of Plymouth Merino Select DK Forest Foliage by Alana Dakos from the Botanical Knits 2 Book, using Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light in the Jasper colorway. Wee Wildflower by Alana Dakos, using Knit Picks Shine Sport in the Crocus colorway  Crooked Ewe Cowl by Paula Emons-Fuessle in Fish Knits Divine gradient Lotus colorway. Vanilla Socks for Will using Berroco Comfort Sock in a gray and white self-striping colorway. Barb has cast on:   Scraptastic Hat vy Jane Tammer using leftover fingering weight yarns Monkey Socks by Cookie A, using Knit Picks Stroll Handprinted in the Pacific Tonal colorway   Tracie is continuing to work on:   Vanilla socks in Araucania Ranco Multy The Ecuador cardigan by Joji Locatelli, using Oasis Yarn Aussi Sock in the Sage colorway Rodeo Drive Poncho using Fonty BB Merino in the Brun Scooby Doo colorway Tracie has cast-on: Weekend Cowl by Liz Capik in Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply  in the Dahlia colorway Just Autumn Cowl by Janina Bottger in Becoming Art Fingering - to the right is a picture of the yarn as it looked in the skein and then wound into a cake.  What a difference!   Barb and Tracie reviewed Annetarsia Knits: a New Link to Intarsia by Anne Berk. It is a beautiful book featuring a new technique invented by Anne for easy intarsia knitting in the round.     To win an autographed hardbound copy of Annetarsia Knits: a New Link to Intarsia, please go to our Ravelry Group thread, "Win Annetarsia Knits" and tell us about any type of colorwork that you have done in the past.  This contest will close on June 31st.  You must be a member of the group to win.   BOOKS Barb has finished: Descent by Tim Johnston.  It was pretty good! The Perfect Son by Barbara Claypole White.  She enthusiastically recommends it. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman.  She did not finish this book. Two in the Far North by Margaret Murie.  Excellent!   Tracie has finished: Something Missing by Matthew Dicks.  She recommends it! Longbourn by Jo Baker.  It was sort of a slog, especially at the beginning, but she ended up liking it. The Stranger She Loved: A Mormon Doctor, his Beautiful Wife and an Almost Perfect Murder by Shanna Hogan - a really good book.   Barb is currently reading: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty   Tracie is currently reading: The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene The Singing Bone by Beth Hahn