Today's post will be a mishmash of both subjects. First I wanted to talk about how I have finished another two books since I last posted. This is a total of 18 books now and I am going to take a little bit of a break to reread some of my favorite books. I finished The Shadow Queen and Shalador's Lady. Both these books are by Anne Bishop and are at least a little bit connected to my favorite trilogy The Black Jewels Trilogy. I did enjoy these books very much and will buy them whenever I get some extra money, there is one more in this little offshoot and I am waiting impatiently for the library to recieve the two copies on order so that I am able to read it.
Secondly I did indeed have a picture to show today but I took it with the wrong memory chip and this laptop doesn't like it and so I don't have a picture to show. It was more of a joke however, since this was the surprise birthday present and I'm not showing any pictures of it quite yet, so it was going into the wash to be felted this morning and I took a picture of it all bundled up in the pillowcase. So that project is nearly done and I even found the extras that I needed so that I can finish it off quickly enough.
I am working along diligently on my sock which means that I am nearly done the leg. I will be very excited for these to be done and am looking at other sock projects for the future. The sock looks exactly the same as the other one so I am not going to post a picture of that either.
I am taking a bit of a break on the sweater because I need to see the bf again to measure and make sure that I am getting all the lengths right on this one since its fairly specific.
I think that's all I've got to say about both books and projects right now.
Lady Polly
July 14, 2010
July 8, 2010
Twice in Less than a Week
We are now celebrating the fact that I have indeed posted twice in less than a full week. This is such an improvement that if I feel good about it I might even post more often again. We are also celebrating the fact that I am now 5 or 6 weeks ahead of schedule (I did count but now I forget whether or not I have been reading for 10 or 11 weeks). You can feel free to double check me since sometimes my math, especially when hurried. I started the week of April 29th (that was the date I finished my first book) and it is now July 8th, I have read a total of 16 books, after the two that I will be discussing today. I believe this does make me very much ahead.
Though this challenge was to read at least 52 books with a goal of about 1 a week I will be very glad and rather proud to have beat this challenge by reading more than 52 books in a year. I am sure that I have indeed done this before.
In the last two days I have read two books. These books were Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry and The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti. These books are pretty much the oppsite of each other.
Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair: is a somewhat knitting books and a rather interesting if somewhat quick reading book. I was a little disappointed that I was able to read this entire book in under two hours. I suppose I shouldn't be though since I have usually read books by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee in an evening for less so I guss it is kind of expected.
The Purity Myth is one of the books that I only picked up because of my degree. In my last semester at University I took a course called Feministy Theory and it was enthralling. Many of the books that the professor mentioned I am eager to read and this happened to be one of them.
Once again I know this isn't a post about knitting, despite the fact that I am even starting another new project that needs to be finished by January 1st.
I will be updating my current projects to reflect all the projects that need to be finished by my deadline.
Well maybe soon there'll be a good post.
Luck,
Lady Polly
Though this challenge was to read at least 52 books with a goal of about 1 a week I will be very glad and rather proud to have beat this challenge by reading more than 52 books in a year. I am sure that I have indeed done this before.
In the last two days I have read two books. These books were Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry and The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti. These books are pretty much the oppsite of each other.
Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair: is a somewhat knitting books and a rather interesting if somewhat quick reading book. I was a little disappointed that I was able to read this entire book in under two hours. I suppose I shouldn't be though since I have usually read books by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee in an evening for less so I guss it is kind of expected.
The Purity Myth is one of the books that I only picked up because of my degree. In my last semester at University I took a course called Feministy Theory and it was enthralling. Many of the books that the professor mentioned I am eager to read and this happened to be one of them.
Once again I know this isn't a post about knitting, despite the fact that I am even starting another new project that needs to be finished by January 1st.
I will be updating my current projects to reflect all the projects that need to be finished by my deadline.
Well maybe soon there'll be a good post.
Luck,
Lady Polly
July 4, 2010
Once Again...
I am writing after having read three books, rather than a single one. So since my last post just over a week ago I have read Belladonna, Naamah's Kiss, and Julie and Julia. I have thoroughly enjoyed all three of these books despite the fact that they are all different. Julie and Julia is much different from the other two books, a book that I have been waiting to read for a while, especially since having watched the movie. This is the type of book that makes you willing to take on an insane challenge, like say knitting one project a month for a year, anybody?
Belladonna is the second in the duo of Sebastian and Belladonna. Written by Anne Bishop these are a different series than the trilogy with two add on books that are the books that I truly enjoy by the author. I did not quite enjoy this book as I did the other one in the series, its hard to like a book where two people know they are going to fall in love but insist on fighting it for a long period of the book.
Naamah's Kiss is an offshoot from another series by Jacquline Carey. I enjoyed the book more than I expected but also didn't enjoy it quite as much as I do the other books.
I have recently noticed that many of my blog posts are entirely on books lately. This isn't exactly a bad thing, but I haven't exactly stopped knitting just stopped posting on it. So hopefully tomorrow I will be able to take some pictures of my knitting and then put up a post about what I have been working on.
Belladonna is the second in the duo of Sebastian and Belladonna. Written by Anne Bishop these are a different series than the trilogy with two add on books that are the books that I truly enjoy by the author. I did not quite enjoy this book as I did the other one in the series, its hard to like a book where two people know they are going to fall in love but insist on fighting it for a long period of the book.
Naamah's Kiss is an offshoot from another series by Jacquline Carey. I enjoyed the book more than I expected but also didn't enjoy it quite as much as I do the other books.
I have recently noticed that many of my blog posts are entirely on books lately. This isn't exactly a bad thing, but I haven't exactly stopped knitting just stopped posting on it. So hopefully tomorrow I will be able to take some pictures of my knitting and then put up a post about what I have been working on.
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