If you already own the original Loop-d-Loop then you know what to expect from the latest offering from Teva Durham.  Insane ideas beautifully executed.  The photography is once again exquisite but the patterns this time around are a lot more wearable, crocheted boots aside.

There’s a gorgeous little girl’s bolero that makes me wish I was three feet tall, simple tunics and blouses, a simple yet stunning capelet combining crochet with Cluny lace ribbons, a beeeyoooootiful staggered web lacy top, bags, coats, shawls AND A HAMMOCK!!!!

There are still things that I wouldn’t consider making, I’m not a wraparound skirt sort of a monkey and minidresses are so last Thursday, but if you can crochet you have to buy this book.  There’s nothing else like it out there and it is absolutely THE BEST crochet book on the market.  If you can’t crochet, learn quickly and then buy this book.

I wish I was Morticia Adams enough to get away with the lazy wheels coat.

BUY THIS BOOK!

The planet Donkey! Monkey! High Council like me to read a set quota of Earth type science fiction so as to keep an eye on any possible danger signals that their primitive science research might progress in unfortunate directions.

So in this book, the silly scientists have messed up the planet in a silly way. The Earth type humans are a bit sad about this but I found it most entertaining. HA HA HA HA HA. Anyway, they all live in space but pop back to rummage through the wreckage of Earth and feel glum. At the same time there’s this detective in Olde Earth type Paris what is working on an investimagation about a possible murder of some bird. Then it turns out that there’s some strange hyperweb through space (Yeah, right. Like that’ll work) that leads from the stupid future back into the primitive past. But then it turns out that the past isn’t quite right and stuff has been messed about with. And that is what the book is about.

As stories go it is well written and entertaining, but as a treatise on modern science I feel that the planet Donkey! Monkey! High Council have nothing much to worry about and can easily crush the pathetic Earth type humans under their mighty monkey feet of cruelty and bloody oppression nurture current Earth type society into a more enlightened and joyous state of being.

This book reads much like the noiryness of that other one what he wrote.  Chasm City, that was it, but this book is set in a different story universe than all that Inhibitor malarky.  I prefered the Inhibitor malarky though.  I do enjoy a good space battle.  So if you enjoyed Chasm City you will likely enjoy this.  If you didn’t enjoy Chasm City you might prefer to read something else, or maybe watch some Murder She Wrote and eat a choc ice.