Lint in Literature: Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman

I started reading Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman last night. What a treat to see the word lint used twice in the first paragraph!

Here's the first time lint is used:

Later she takes the dress off, puts it back on its hanger, 
makes sure there's not a speck of lint on it, 
not a wrinkle on the seat of the skirt.

Then later, this sentence appears, very similar to the first:

Slowly, lovingly, she takes off her dress, 
makes sure there's not a speck of lint of it, 
returns it to the hanger. 

I think I'm really going to like this novel about a Russian girl with scoliosis of the spine.

Mannequin Girl: A Novel

Lint in Literature: Lucky Us by Amy Bloom

It's been awhile since I posted here on my lint blog. So sorry! I have cleaned my dryer's lint filter since I last posted but that's about all the lint I've had in my life, I guess, until last night!

I was reading my book, Lucky Us by Amy Bloom, and what appeared? Lint! Here's the excerpt:

I did notice that the ladies were very happy for me to use the lint brush on their furniture, make tea, and empty the trash, and would you mind, there's a good girl, just take the dog for walkies while I'm drying.


Lucky Us: A Novel


This novel is a delight! I've read a few of Amy Bloom's other novels and this one is just as good. 

Uses for Dryer Lint from the Krazy Coupon Lady

My niece just let me know about a cool article called "6 Weird Ways to Recycle Dryer Lint." I was all over that!

You can read the article by clicking the link above, but the one that really stood out to me was using dryer lint to make papier-mache! Makes sense and I bet it works really well, too!

I hope you had a good Christmas and have a linty new year! Here are some lint rollers to keep you lint free, if that's how you roll.


Scotch-Brite Lint Roller, 5 Count, 95 Sheets

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

I've had shingles for a week now and had, what my doctor thought was a sore or blister near my right eye. So, I've been having to wear gauze over my eye during the day and an eye patch at night. This one-eyed situation made it really hard to do certain things, like read!



So, I figured out, with my daughter's help, how to download an audiobook onto my iPad to listen to instead of reading an actual book. I quickly chose The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott from my library using the Overdrive app. I am loving this book!

Last night while lying in bed, they mentioned lint. The ladies work in a textile mill in 1832 in Lowell, Massachusetts so there is lint flying from the cotton used to make the fabric. I didn't catch the sentence since I was listening, instead of reading, but it was a wonderful use of the word lint and had to share it with you.

If you like historical fiction (and lint), you can't go wrong with The Daring Ladies of Lowell.

Lint in Literature: Torch by Cheryl Strayed

I just started reading Torch by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, and what did I find on the very first page? Lint! Yes! I was tickled pink.


Here it is:

"She examined her shirt for lint and cat hair, errant pieces of thread, and primly picked them off."

I'm only on page 29 of this novel but am loving it already.

What are you reading? Does it have any lint in it?

Lint in Literature: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

I just started reading The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd a few days ago. It's wonderful. Right up there with the Secret Life of Bees (The Mermaid Chair, not so much).

Anyway, on page 63 there's this wonderful reference to our friend lint:

When she saw the tea trays Aunt-Sister left in the warming kitchen for Cindie to take up, she would drop whatever bit of nastiness she could into the teapot. Dirt off the floor, lint off the rug, spit from her mouth. I told Miss Sarah, stay clear of the tea trays.

Ha ha! Love that!


Do you have a good lint story to share?

Navel Gazing and Belly Button Lint

I know I've been neglectful of my lint blog, but I've been busy. I have not, as the title of this blog post might suggestion, been doing any navel gazing and no, I don't have belly button lint but in an attempt to write a new blog post, I searched for "belly button lint" because it's always a fun topic to spend a few minutes on.

I came across this article by the Huffington Post called This Is What Your Belly Button Says About You. It's chockfull of information about what the shape of our belly buttons say about us, touches on a few people who do not have belly buttons (they were removed in surgeries; they are not aliens), and the ever-popular belly button lint. So take a few minutes to read some of those strange facts, if you like. 

And if that's not enough, there's a book out called Re:  Belly Button Lint by Brooke West. I have a feeling it's not entirely about navel fluff, but I found it interesting that there's a book with belly button lint in the title!