It's Wednesday, so it's time for a highlight of my week, Unraveled Wednesday. I'm joining Kat and friends with a close-to-completed Nervous Breakdown II.
I'm done with the stripes so I just have some teeth in the Nervous Breakdown color to knit. Ryan would like it in an XL size with 59 teeth. I'm at 52, so there are just seven teeth left to go. My posts this week have been lending themselves to numbers in the titles, so that comes out to 56 more rows.
I spent an afternoon weaving in the ends from the stripes and alternating skeins, so I'm glad that pesky chore is done. Once I overcame my initial resistance to the task it wasn't really that bad.
I'm still reading Shake Down the Stars (except I forgot the book in NJ) and I finished The Hand That First Held Mine and The Wife Upstairs. It was interesting to read a book that Maggie O'Farrell wrote 10 years before Hamnet (which I absolutely loved), and see her growth as a writer in that time. While not my usual type of book, The Wife Upstairs was available on Overdrive, and it turned out to be a fun re-imagining of Jane Eyre. Even though it's far from my usual fare, I wanted to keep listening to see where the book was going. On the recommendation of a friend, I've started This Song Will Save Your Life and am also re-listening along with Ryan (for the third time) to one of my all-time favorites, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.
What are you making, reading, and counting this week?
You are almost there, Bonny. You and Carole need to cheer each other on! I have been starting lots of books and then putting lots of books down, so no love on the book front these days. I have swatched for my sweater, but it has been so very hot here lately, I have had no desire for wool in my lap. Have a lovely Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteGORGEOUS!!!! I'm barely knitting at all this week, too much box packing. I am also trying to figure out how to squeeze in reading time. So many things I want to do and so little time to do them. But it's temporary!!
ReplyDeleteThat is one gorgeous Hitchhiker! But your reading! I am a few weeks away from The Hand... My re-listen this summer - Beach Music. I am a few weeks away from it being my turn and I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteWhat did you think about Hand? I agree about The Wife Upstairs -- not what I'd typically pick up, but entertaining and certainly propulsive.
ReplyDeleteI think you are wise to weave in all those ends now; it will make things much faster to finish when the knitting is done. I'm about to pick up a hibernating WIP that's knit from miniskeins, and I'm going to have to remember to weave in ends as I go so I don't hate myself at the end.
Your Hitchhiker is amazing!!! Weaving in ends is my least favorite part of knitting so I think you were smart to get them out of the way now.
ReplyDeleteBesides Hamnet, I've read This Must Be the Place, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, and her memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am. It's good to know there are more good books on her backlist to look forward to!
I was knitting along merrily, ignoring all the ends until I finished the stripes. I decided I better weave them in while they bothered me enough to just do it!
DeleteI think The Hand That First Held Mine was a solid four-star book. It's very different from Hamnet, but quite good!
I'm inspired to knit another Hitchhiker!
ReplyDeleteI listened to The Wife Upstairs a couple of weeks ago and it was easy fun. I can't recommend The Keeper's of the House enough. What a pleasant surprise that was. Ryan is one lucky guy!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to more O'Farrell backlist, too. I read Esme Lennox years ago and remember almost nothing about it. I'm hoping to re-read that and read I Am, I Am, I Am this year. How cool to do a listen-along with Ryan - and your book choice is excellent!
ReplyDeleteYou're so close to done with that Hitchhiker! I have The Wife Upstairs on my Kindle and will be reading it soon.
ReplyDeleteOh you are closing in on the finish line with that Hitchhiker. The stripes are a great addition. I am looking forward to Hamnet with my book group later this fall. It's good to know that author has written other books.
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