Books about knitting?

[jackandahat]

What are your favourite books about knitting? Not pattern books, but books talking about knitting - things like Yarn Harlot's books or It's My Party And I'll Knit If I Want To.

What do you like about them?

Any you'd say to avoid? (I know some of that is going to be personal taste, but I'm interested to know why.)

Comments

I have one yarn harlot book

[jazzypom]

And it's this one. I tend to find that her other books tend to veer either too mystery magical (she calls non knitters 'muggles' and she's had a book dedicated to thoughts about knitting with pithy verse) or too 'watch me be funny' but the knitting rules is a good balance and in addition to that, she shares wisdom re: knitting pi shawls, socks, et al to the point where I'll just pick up the book just to read the odd chapter or five.

Re: I have one yarn harlot book

[jackandahat]

*nods* This is the kind of thing I mean with personal taste - I do like the essay books, but it is a very particular style. I'm less fond of the most recent one because it's got several stories retold straight from the blog, and a few are not knitting related at all - husband/kid type stuff.

Knitting Rules I really like for keeping to check up on stuff - when I'm having my "Ack, am I doing this wrong?" moments, it's handy.