This week’s knitting and reading are both a jumble of things right now.
My knitting bag has some sleeve knitting, some fingerless mitt knitting, and getting ready to do some swatching (which is not for the fingerless mitts, but sometimes just exactly what you need to do!)
On the reading front – I am reading Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites – I am having some difficulty getting into this book, but I think that is mainly because I am reading at night when I get in bed and I barely get a page done and it is lights out for me!
In my ears is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead – I just started this yesterday and I am already captivated! It is so powerfully good!
I am also listening to a chapter or so a day of the Moby Dick Big Read Listen Along. So far – 3 chapters, only 132 chapters to go! This is a surprising treat – each chapter is read by a different reader! I should get some additional listening later today as I am winding yarn into balls – the perfect meditative task to listen by!
There you have my varied knitting and reading/listening. What about you? What are you reading or knitting this week?
As usual, I am joining Ginny’s Yarn Along!
you knitting is quite pretty! I wish I could start something new but not until I finish another pair of mitts..Oh the agony! I am reading Alexander Hamilton and it’s quite a compelling interesting read.
I think I may have the same issue with my knitting; I wait until evening when I’m done with everything else and then find my eyelids drooping after only a few rows. We should try knitting and reading during the day – work and chores be damned!
P.S. I liked Burial Rites but I wonder if part of that was because I read it in January? It’s definitely a cold-weather kind of book!
I read Burial Rites and enjoyed it a lot…but it took some concentration. Your knitting looks lovely. I’m discovering that I am no good as a multiple project knitter. I need to focus on one thing, bet it done, and then start something new.
What a great idea, to listen to Moby Dick while winding yarn! I have to wind up several skeins for my weaving class, so that should be good for a couple of chapters anyway. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the grey yarn – something elegant about it. I’m about to start to re-read Possession, partly so I can get lost in all of the poetry that Byatt created for the characters, mostly to lose myself in a Pre-Raphaelite-loving world.
I didn’t love Burial Rites but I did finish it. Underground Railroad is on my list to read and I started Moby Dick yesterday, I’m also 3 chapters in and I’m enjoying it so far.
I’m another who wasn’t a fan of Burial Rites (it was ok), but I LOVED Underground Railroad. Your colorwork knitting looks so beautiful!
Burial Rites . . . just so hard to find any “good” in that one. Bleak. Very bleak. I’m not knitting or reading much right now, but definitely feeling the need for both!
I loved Burial Rites, but then I have always been fascinated with Iceland Stick with it!
Oh that colour work looks so adorable! Please show it again once you’ve finished it!
I have to say, the Moby Dick thing didn’t interest me at all… hum, I wonder if this is yet another “thing” I’m going to be a sorry late adopter for?! I am looking forward to Underground Railroad – it’s top 5 on my TBR, but I’ve just started The Nix, and I think it’s going to take me a while. (good luck with the swatching – I hope that means there’s a new sweater coming soon!)
i can’t believe i’ve never read moby dick….maybe this is the way to tackle that one!!! I might look for the underground rr for my travel read—everyone says it’s a winner.
I loved Burial Rites. I’m looking forward to reading the new book she has out. Totally understand falling asleep before progressing far in a book! Your knitting and photos are beautiful.