Knitting:
I’m all over the place, but there’s not much progress. Oh well, sometimes it’s like that.
Working on:
– a topdown sweater/tunic, depending on how much yarn I need. I’m knitting it topdown, to make sure I end up with something usable (I’m pretty sure I have enough to knit a sleeveless sweater)
– a scarf
– potholders (still the same pair I was working on last week)
Reading:
Hmn, all over the place too.
I finished the novel about the girl from Curaçao. I loved reading it, got me thinking about a lot of things. It’s set in the late sixties, early seventies, which was quite a turbulent period here.
Then I found a few simple novels ‘for older girls’ in the free library and brought a few of them home. I’m actually sad that I didn’t bring the other ones too, because I really loved reading them. It was just what I needed. Simple, mindless reading about simpler times and simpler problems. One of them is a keeper though, it’s an autobiographic story about a couple moving back from Indonesia to Holland in the fifties. Loved that one! The others will probably go back to the free library. I’m not sure yet.
This morning I started the Sue Grafton novel. I’m not sure if I read this one before, but I reread the older ones often anyway. I love her books! It is the first time I’m reading one in English though, so I’m curious to see if that makes a different experience.
After that, I have two classics lined up. The Hobbit, well, no explanation needed, and De Aanslag, a novel set in WWII. I can’t remember if I read it for literature in school, but I do know most of my classmates did. We’ll see if I can work up the mood to start reading these. I’m tempted to dig through my boxes and find more simple novels…
Linking up with Kat’s Unraveled Wednesday