I'm reading Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's *Yarn Harlot* these days. I gave Pearl-McPhee book to my mother for Christmas, and, when she was done reading it, she lent a different book by the same author to me. She says they contain much of the same material. I can't tell, possibly because I've only read one of the books. I say "possibly," because I can't remember if I've read the other one or not. *Yarn Harlot* is a fun series of essays about knitting foibles. One is about leading a beginning knitter astray by beginning a mammoth project with him, then wishing she hadn't. I like this book. It's probably most appropriate for somebody who has knit for awhile.