The Colour Purple and Socks

So I know that I haven't been posting all that often, I only blame the fact that I have had a crazy last two weeks.  So today's post will be a double feature.  Starting with the review of the last book that I finished (The Colour Purple) and ending with a look at my current knitting.
So two days ago I finished the book The Colour Purple by Alice Walker and I'm not exactly sure what I have to say about it.  As you probably can tell due to the fact that I finished the book two days ago and haven't yet posted about it.  It was an interesting book that started off sad and ended happy but There were places that were very weird and hard to read.  Also the fact that it was written as if the person writing could not spell, which is true of the main character, but it got to be annoying because the word 'asked' was used a million times through out the book and was spelled as 'ast' instead of the normal way.  I haven't actually watched the movie and from what I've heard from the person that I know who has watched it it seems that the director focused on the unhappy parts of the book instead of the happier parts.
On another note I have come to find out that I am actually a week behind in my reading challenge and that it has been five weeks since I started this and I have only finished four books.  I would no doubt be done a fifth and be caught up by now except I left my next book in Abbotsford when I was visiting this weekend.  This makes me sad but it means that I get to go from the depressingness of Revolutionary Road of which I have watched the movie to the depressingness of Atonement a movie I have also watched. 

And now for the second part of this post.  The part about knitting and mainly socks.  As I may or may not have mentioned lately knitting socks has become the bane of my existence because the instructions for turning a heel are very vague in most instances which drives me a little insane.  Therefore when I decided to borrow a book on knitting socks out of the library I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this book did indeed have good instructions and I was able to follow it well.

As you can see from my twisted picture I am already on the toe and have only started these socks a couple weeks ago.  So far it has taken over 16 hours to knit this one socks however, or at least very close to that.  I have become aware of this because I managed to started and finished the audio book Eclipse in the time it has taken me to knit this much.  Of course some of it has not been listened to while knitting and has instead kept me company while I do other things.

I feel that I should add this gratuitous picture because it shows that indeed my sock does have a heel which makes me very happy indeed because that is always the hardest part for me to understand.  Very little other knitting has taken place lately except yesterday evening and this morning have added 6 rows to my shawl.  I shall show you a picture of it later since it is already 60 rows long and that means only 210 more rows to go before the edging which scares me a little to be honest.  Anyways I am off to read or knit or possibly play a video game which has become a little bit addictive which is very very bad for book reading or knitting production.

Wish me luck,

Lady Polly