Recorded on August 27, 2020 Book Talk starts at 19:25   Our Mother Bear KAL is almost over!  Please join the discussion in the 2020 Mother Bear KAL Chatter Thread and post your finished bears in the Mother Bear FOs Thread by September 1.   Virtual get-together via Zoom on Saturdays, 12 noon  PST - Details here   Tracie and Barb support the Black Lives Matter movement and encourage you to add your voice to the fight for racial justice and police reform and demilitarization.  Please donate if you can: Black Lives Matter Southern Poverty Law Center NAACP Legal Defense Fund ACLU    KNITTING Barb finished Mother Bears 222 through 224 Nice to Gnome You MKAL by Sarah Schira, using a kit from Leading Men Fiber Arts Bull & Braids hat by Cheryl Breckerich, using Cascade Elysian in the Crimson colorway    Tracie finished Nice to Gnome You MKAL by Sarah Schira in Marianated Yarns, Duren Dyeworks, Greenwood Fiber Works, and Cascade 220 Superwash Sport emPower People cowl by Casapinka in purple fingering weight scraps plied into a DK/worsted on my spinning wheel   Barb continues to work on Vanilla Socks using and set of Fibernymph Dye Works Inversibles in blue and pink  Holey Comfort Cardigan by Hinterm Stern using Holst Garn Coast Uul Bomuld in the Ice Sea colorway Bautista shawl by Celia McAdam Cahill in Invictus Yarns YakLux in the NoCKRs 2020 colorway   Tracie continues to work on Fiddly Bits by Jane Pihota Ciara Shawl by Fredi Baker in Emma’s Yarn Super Silky (kit from Rumpelstiltskin) in Freshly Cut, Happily Ever After and Whisper Niamh by Isabell Kraemer in Miss Babs Katahdin in Smurf & Turf    BOOKS Barb read Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (5 stars) Finding Grace by K.L. Slater (3 stars)   Tracie read  Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (5 stars) How to Be An AntiRacist by Ibram X. Kendi (4 stars) Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle (4 stars) Love’s Blood: The Shocking True Story of a Teenager Who Would Do Anything for the Older Man She Loved - Even Kill Her Whole Family by Clark Howard (3.5 stars) Barb recommends the podcast Nice White Parents