I've been reading lately, too

This is a book recommended by a writer friend, a southern woman, and I'm into it now.

It's a memoir, stretching back generations, of a black New Orleans family, written by Sarah Broom, a descendant; the Yellow House of the title was a casualty of Katrina.

 It's  brilliantly written, meticulously researched, dialogue rendered so that you quickly get to know and value the people.

  I'm only partway through, got it transferred to my Kindle to save my eyes, so I can't show you a cool printed book, but what I can show are some of the cast of relatives.

They're all stars. I don't want to spoil your journey into this world by saying more. Just start reading. Just do.

And then there's this beauty, referred to me by my library lady who knows me (!)

Just one tiny flaw in this great feast of weaving styles and history and characters, is that the photography is so good that you want immediately to try everything.

And pictures of cool tools, that you need right away. Like this lucet.

I plan to make a lucet just to see if I enjoy making square cord. It's got to be better than kumihimo, which in my hands was more kamikaze, but we won't go there. I don't think I can make it from PVC pipe though. I have to branch out.

This book is like a degree in weaving. You can learn enough about a range of weaving types to know if you want to pursue it further. You can try various skills as you go. It's just a lot of fun. In fact you can enjoy this without ever making anything, just for the ride.

Very different books, very different passions, let me know if you read either or both, and what you think.