Reading Not Knitting

...the printed page seems to be calling me more than the needles while I'm in this antsy, I'm-really-over-January funk.  Though I left work late and was ragged, I went straight to the bookstore to buy another of Charlaine Harris's (she of the Sookie Stackhouse, Louisiana telepathic barmaid hanging out with southern vampires mystery series) Shakespeare, Arkansas mysteries with the protagonist Lily Bard.  I'm just lovin' them. And since the characters evolve from book to book (though each can be read stand-alone) I just needed a bit more acerbic Lily in my life right now.  This is not great art, peeps, but it is good reading with characters I've come to care about.  Hey, it's all about the story for me these days.

I devoured this last night, staying up till 3 am to finish it. And the real mystery was why I wasn't particularly tired this morning when I awoke at 7:30 am. And I am a person who needs her sleep. Heh. Strange days fer shure.

So. Today I had to drop back by the same bookstore to pick up my cell phone (idiotically left there last night). And what did I get? Amy Tan's biography, The Opposite of Fate. I cannot wait to get into it.

If you go to the river-of-books you can read the first few pages. just. wonderful.

And I also read most of Linda Greenlaw's, The Lobster Chronicles (snagged off the discount rack). She's the former fishing boat captain (played a role in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm) who also wrote The Hungry Ocean, a non-fiction account of her 17+ years as a swordfishing boat captain fishing the St. George Bank off of Newfoundland. migod, what  a life. She moved back to Isle Au Haut, the island off the coast of Maine where she grew up.  Another good story.

But, oh, my fiends, I did order stash. From Wool Needleworks comes 10 skeins each of Noro Silk Garden in the amazing reds color #84 and the #211 colorway which is much subtler than it looks on the website. The first shall be the Hourglass Sweater from Halvorsen's Last Minute Knitted Gifts and I'm thinking about what to do with the #211.  AND I pounced on a lovely hand-dyed, handspun hank of worsted weight Hello Yarn merino (color Crisp) which will be a new scarf as fast as I can knit it. I really wanted a sweater of it to satisfy my spring-is-coming-yes-it-is urges, but all there was was one skein. And is it will be going down into the low 30s overnight on Sunday. 

NSMJ**, ya'll.

**nuff said mung jennelwimmen (old suthern expression adapted fer us wimmen)

 

Comments

[Michelle]

Oooo, I love #84! That's what I knit my Klaralund out of! That'll make a lovely Hourglass...

[kris]

yum, silk garden! (ok so i've only ever seen pictures but it looks so lovely - particularly the #84 reds) (must really try it once). and yum, hourglass sweater!