Last night I achieved a goal I really never imagined I could reach – I finished reading Knitlandia, and with it completed my Summer BOTNS Book Bingo card.

A cover all, people! Twenty-five books read in eighty-seven days!

There were good books, great books, amazing books, and some books that were not any of the above. In no particular order, I present my summer reading:

1. Knitlandia – 4 stars (With a one-word title)
2. To Kill a Mocking Bird – 5 stars (Published the year you were born)
3. 81 Famous Poems – 4 stars (Poetry Collection
4. She Stoops to Conquer – 4 stars (From the Harvard Classics 5-foot shelf)
5. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls – 4 stars (By or about a member of the LGBTQ community)
6. It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons – 5 stars (BOTNS BOOK BINGO free square)
7. Emma, Vol. 01 – 2 stars (Manga)
8. Shear Spirit: Ten Fiber Farms, Twenty Patterns and Miles of Yarn – 4 stars (From the top shelf of one of your bookcases)
9. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry – 3 stars (With a family member (wife, son, uncle, etc.) in the title)
10. The Book Thief – 5 stars (Told by a child narrator)
11. My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life – 5 stars (With food as the theme)
12. The Inner Circle – 1 star (Hated by someone you know)
13. Charlotte’s Web – 5 stars (A non-human main character)
14. Doc – 3 stars (Western)
15. The Summer Before the War – 4 stars (Most recently added to your TBR)
16. Blue Lightning – 4 stars (Read another book by an author already used for this Bingo card)
17. A Man Called Ove – 5 stars (Borrowed from the library)
18. Hamilton: The Revolution – 4 stars (Nonfiction in graphic novel format)
19. The Redbreast – 4 stars (A classic mystery)
20. Still Life – 5 stars (Recommended by a librarian or bookseller)
21. The Paris Architect – 5 stars (That you think you will dislike)
22. The Goldfinch – 5 stars (With an animal on the cover on in the title)
23. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood – 2 stars (Six words or more in the title)
24. White Nights – 4 stars (Set in another country)
25. The New Yorker – 5 stars (A literary magazine or journal of any genre)

This was a colossal undertaking for me. I have not been the most voracious reader in recent years, but this has truly brought my love for reading back to life! A huge thank you to Carole for talking about this all those many weeks ago – I would not have even known such a thing existed! It was a throwback to my youth and my local library summer reading programs!

And speaking of colossal – while nothing much looks fab in the gardens right now with much of it looking worn, weary, and burned out. Not so with the Coleus and the White Salvia we planted this year!! It is the King of the Garden right now and even the bees are paying homage!

That brings us to the linky portion of this post, enter at your own risk! You have been warned!

• Oh, Svetlana!
• Miss Bab’s has a brand spanking new website, and some spiffy new designs to christen it
• Walkham, yes please!
• Norah N-ogee
• Knitter’s Cryptonite? Perhaps, yes.
• We all need a decathlon of socks, really – and it’s free!
• I am generally unmoved by the new Rowan Magazines, however Rowan 60… especially Thorn
• Mary Jane and Gudrun have been busy getting ready for all the fall issues!
• Kathleen Dames and Anne Podlesak and Filament no. 1
• Quintessential: Starfish – I love this idea and it would be a great stash buster! (and again, FREE)
• Beware, Mitten Weather is coming!
• Stranger Things – especially if you are hooked on the Netflix show!
• Don’t you just love how a knitter’s mind works?

I will close with some incredible bloggy goodness, thanks to Kate Davies (who ALWAYS has the most phenomenal photos ever!) However, recently she shared some really incredible things:

• ten amazing knitters (part 1)
• ten amazing knitters (part 2)
• lives in oo

That is all I have for you this week, the knitting continues – and last night I sat at my spinning wheel for the first time in almost a week! Have a fantastic weekend and I will see you back here on Monday!

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