Happy Wednesday morning from the heat dome! We're supposed to have a heat index upward of 100ºF today, so I will be spending as much time as possible inside, where I can knit in comfort. Today I'm joining in with Kat and the Unravelers with a big update on my crafting and my reading.
Over the weekend and the past couple of days, we've been dealing with a Comcast outage (fingers crossed that it's fixed now), but the lack of internet on Monday night meant I was able to focus on my spinning and finished up the second bobbin of singles.
As I got this post ready on Tuesday evening, I will have already started plying when you read this, and I'm hopeful I can get that done and the resulting yarn skeined up in time to share it with you on Friday.
I've been continuing to work on my socks while I read and work, and I'm onto the foot of the second sock:
And my current charity hat has grown a bit since you last saw it, and I'm delighted that the yarn has decided to stripe, even though it's sock yarn and I'm working at a bigger circumference:
Because I'm a little pressed for time, I'm going to keep my book reviews brief this week.
Little One by Olivia Muenter
Digital library loan
3 stars
Told in dual timelines, a woman who grew up in what might be considered a cult and has tried to escape from her past is forced to confront it when a reporter finds her and starts asking questions. It was a page-turner that moved at a good speed, but I was distracted by a number of grammatical errors and thought the ending was totally unrealistic.
Slow Horses (Slough House #1) by Mick Herron
Audiobook library loan
4 stars
Slough House is where the screwups from Britain's MI5 get sent. This first book in the series is pretty much exactly the plot of the first season of the Apple TV show of the same name, which I'd already seen, so there weren't really any surprises, but it was still an entertaining listen.
The Palace on the Higher Hill by Karim Kattan, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Paperback
2 stars
A Palestinian man living elsewhere returns to his family's home in the West Bank, where he is welcomed by ghosts and the memories of his childhood. I had a really hard time understanding what was going on in this book and probably wouldn't have finished it were it not part of my postal paperback club.
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
Audiobook library loan
4 stars
A British sheep farmer travels to a remote island off the coast of Norway to learn about the life of Anna, a woman who has devoted much of her life to bringing back the Eider ducks whose feathers used to provide a living to earlier generations. Beautiful and respectful.
What are you making and reading?
I always like FDW's Inversibles and it's really nice to see how they look when they are knit. The hat is quite nice, too! I'll be interested to hear what you think of Yesteryear. I hope you can stay cool and connected to Comcast.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun socks, Sarah! Somewhere . . . I have some of FDW's inversible yarn for Halloween socks. You've reminded me that perhaps I should get it out and think about casting on . . . Hope your internet is back in business; it's so hard to be without it these days.
ReplyDeleteThose are fun socks but go you on your spinning! I look forward to seeing that plied up! (And always... great reading, I always add a title or two to my TBR list! (and I hope that your internet is back to stay... Kym is right... no internet makes it hard to function!)
ReplyDeleteThose socks are really cool inversions of each other! It's so frustrating to have Comcast issues, I hope things are back to normal.
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