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When I'm not reading, you will usually find me playing with string - knitting, crocheting or spinning yarn on a handspindle similar to the one on the right.

When I purchased my first Kindle, I was very excited about putting knitting patterns and books on the device. Then reality set in. Color illustrations, schematics and charts are a very important component of all practical knitting books and the current Kindle sans color doesn't handle them gracefully. That said, there are a number of knitting-related books available for the Kindle that will interest folks who knit, crochet or spin.

MEMOIRS
Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Somethng Who Learned to Knit After He Split, by Laurie Perry. Health Communications. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (51 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Perry, a 33-year-old, Southern-born transplant to L.A., was shocked when her husband announced he was leaving her. Granted, he was more a safe sedan than a sports car, but she wasn't ready to be single. Perry started avoiding people for fear of crying in front of them and put on pounds with her divorce diet, 60% wine and 40% jalapeño potato chips and French fries. Fortunately, a friend insisted she try knitting..." - Publishers Weekly. Perry also maintains the Crazy Aunt Purl blog.

Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, by Kyoko Mori. GemmaMedia. Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $10.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Sit with Kyoko Mori as she artfully takes in hand needles and fiber, and also the realities of her life story, to knit this gorgeous memoir of loss, emigration, grief, identity and the work of her hands. The perfectly titled 'Yarn' recounts the author’s most formative experiences, including losing her mother through suicide; emigrating from Japan; finding a life and a love in America’s frigid Midwest; discovering joy as a single person; and leaning on the healing power of creating both stories and knitted garments..." - Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Sundays in America.

Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. Andrews McMeel Publishing. Amazon customer rating: Kindle edition $8.29. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Over 50 million people in America knit. The average knitter spends between $500 and $1,700 a year on yarn, patterns, needles, and books. No longer just a fad or a hobby, knitting has advanced to a lifestyle. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humor in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her 'yarn harlot' title with her love of any new yarn - she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn..." - Amazon.

FICTION, WHODUNITS AND THE LIKE
While My Pretty One Knits, by Anne Canadeo. Pocket. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (10 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Maggie Messina, beloved owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, is thrilled to be hosting a workshop for one of her former students, now a celebrity in the knitting world. But the celebration is upstaged when Amanda Goran, the owner of the rival Knitting Nest, is found dead in her shop on the other side of town. Maggie had reasons to dislike Amanda, a thorn in her side ever since Maggie's shop surpassed Amanda's in popularity. Then again, it wasn't hard to dislike Amanda - the contentious woman, whose marriage was on the rocks, seemed to specialize in causing misery all over town. But the pointed evidence has a detective casting a suspicious eye on Maggie. She may be a whiz at knitting, but can she keep the police from needling her before her shop, her reputation, and her circle of friends become unraveled?" - Amazon.

The Beach Street Society and Yarn Club, by Gil McNeil. HarperCollins. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (49 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When her husband dies in a car crash - not long after announcing he wants a divorce - Jo Mackenzie packs up her two rowdy boys and moves from London to a dilapidated villa in her seaside hometown. There, she takes over her beloved Gran's knitting shop - a quaint but out-of-date store in desperate need of a facelift. After a rough beginning, Jo soon finds comfort in a Stitch and Bitch group; a collection of quirky, lively women who share their stories, and their addiction to cake, with warmth and humor. As Jo starts to get the hang of single-parent life in a small town, she relies on her knitting group for support. The women meet every week at the shop on Beach Street and trade gossip and advice as freely as they do a new stitch. But when a new man enters Jo's life, and an A-list actress moves into the local mansion, the knitting club has even more trouble confining the conversation to knit one, purl two..." - Amazon.

The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love, by Beth Pattillo. Publisher. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (15 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Once a month, the six women of the Sweetgum Knit Lit Society gather to discuss books and share their knitting projects. Inspired by her recently-wedded bliss, group leader Eugenie chooses 'Great Love Stories in Literature' as the theme for the year’s reading list - a risky selection for a group whose members span the spectrum of age and relationship status. As the Knit Lit ladies read and discuss classic romances like Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice, each member is confronted with her own perception about love..." - Amazon.

By Hook or By Crook, by Betty Hechtman. Berkley Prime Crime. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (10 reviews). Kindle edition $5.59. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Molly Pink's crochet group has a new mystery on their hands when they find a paper bag that contains a note that speaks of remorse, a diary entry of the sorrow of parting, and a complicated piece of filet crochet that offers an obscure clue in pictures. Things get even more complicated when they find the talented crocheter - murdered by a box of poisoned marzipan apples." - Amazon.

HUMOR
The Secret Language of Knitters, by Mary Beth Temple. Andrews McMeel Publishing. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $7.96. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"For the yarn-obsessed, Mary Beth Temple offers a glossary of knitting jargon and terminology... with entries like: Mistakes. As in 'The fact that one sleeve is five inches longer than the other is not a mistake, it is a design element.' With a universal affinity for cashmere and an absolute abhorrence of moths, veteran and beginning knitters alike will be certain not to cast off this humorous lexicon compendium." - Amazon.

It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons, by Franklin Habit. Interweave Press. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (19 reviews). Kindle edition $7.96. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. A fun read. The simple line-drawing cartoons translate well to the Kindle and the publisher had the smarts to include a good selection of cartoons in the sample.
"An affectionate and humorous celebration of every aspect of the craft of knitting, from buying - and hiding - massive quantities of yarn to wrestling with projects that go seriously awry to prescriptions for alleviating the stress brought on by holiday knitting. This witty collection represents a pitch-perfect send up of one of the most rapidly growing hobbies today. Including 75 cartoons, deftly rendered in pen and ink with watercolor wash, and several humorous short essays, every knitter is sure to find elements of themselves in this collection." - Amazon.


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