My best times are when I'm reading a good book, knitting a good project and just cruising along. And that's where I'm at right now. I'm knitting He-Oak, a jumper for Leon. I was a bit concerned, because there are no projects on Ravelry (surely you'd get some test knitters or something) but it's coming a long nicely. Also quite quickly - I started it on Friday, and it's really knitting up well.
The Chiaogoo needles are such a joy, although knitting at 4.5mm does feel enormous after all the socks. I'm reading Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman. I bought it ages ago, after listening to One Good Day and then I realised it was a Holocaust novel, and I wasn't really in the mood, I've read lots of holocaust novels and I think most of them are reading from the same source material - or many people had similar, heartbreaking experiences. Either way, not what i wanted to read right now. But this novel starts with a question I've often wondering about - what happened to people after the war? What happened to their possessions? It's a really compelling book. I'm about half way through, and just can't stop reading. And that's me, at the beginning of November, having quite a good time of it.
I'm joining in with Ginny and the monthly yarnalong. I recommend popping over to her blog to see what everyone else is knitting and reading this month.
If you want to find all my book reviews, I'm SharonDblk on Goodreads. On Ravelry I'm SharonDoubleknit, and I blog about my knitting and sometimes my reading, cats and other adventures right here.
The Chiaogoo needles are such a joy, although knitting at 4.5mm does feel enormous after all the socks. I'm reading Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman. I bought it ages ago, after listening to One Good Day and then I realised it was a Holocaust novel, and I wasn't really in the mood, I've read lots of holocaust novels and I think most of them are reading from the same source material - or many people had similar, heartbreaking experiences. Either way, not what i wanted to read right now. But this novel starts with a question I've often wondering about - what happened to people after the war? What happened to their possessions? It's a really compelling book. I'm about half way through, and just can't stop reading. And that's me, at the beginning of November, having quite a good time of it.
I'm joining in with Ginny and the monthly yarnalong. I recommend popping over to her blog to see what everyone else is knitting and reading this month.
If you want to find all my book reviews, I'm SharonDblk on Goodreads. On Ravelry I'm SharonDoubleknit, and I blog about my knitting and sometimes my reading, cats and other adventures right here.
I had to take a break from Holocaust stories at some point as well. I am also quite interested in the "what comes after" questions from that period, as I think it is interesting how the two Germanies dealt with it. West Germany was pretty open about it, and I think dealt with it as a society, whereas the GDR just swept it all under the rug and pretended it was the W. Germans who were to blame for all the problems of the Nazi period. Then, when the Wall came down in 1989, there was a whole country of people who hadn't made that reckoning with themselves, and it was disastrous.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's another fascinating period of history!
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