September knitting

my favourite sock pattern so far. Green socks.












Some colourful socks













The blue blob gets slowly bigger..

Books

Your Sad Eyes And Unforgettable Mouth by Edeet Ravel, 2008. It's good, but not as good as the Tel Aviv Trilogy she wrote; 1. Ten Thousand Lovers (2003), 2. Look for Me (2004) 3. A Wall of Light. They were really good.

I've started 2666 by Roberto Bolano, 2008 for the second time. This time it is the huge CD version. I keep thinking about giving up but it is a good book.

Listened to Open Arms by Marina Endicott and it felt incomplete - unfinished and with things missing.

just started The Anthologist: A Novel by Nicholson Baker 2009 and I really like it.

Mysteries

Finally got back to The Likeness by Tana French and thought it was a good engrossing mystery. Perfect escape book. Now in the middle of The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson. Too bad he died, but sure glad he left the three books he wrote. This one is helping to keep the looming school year out of my head.

Knitting - socks and mitts

New mitts for Mum. Beautiful wool bought at Cumberland yarn store.







Blue socks finished. Mocha likes them.

Books

I am enjoying Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris, a literary mystery set in Saudi Arabia. Palestinian Nayir al-Sharqi investigates the death of Nouf with the help of Katya who works in the women's section of the state medical examiner's office. Interesting to read about women who are so restricted and controlled by a male religious state.

Also really like Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden. I have put off reading this because I liked Three Day Road so much, but this book is also very good.

Gave up on a couple of audio books. One was boring - a mystery - and the other (Kyra) I could not stand the reader.

Books

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
She captures high school well, telling the tale of a shooting spree that took 19 minutes. Very sad but worth reading.

Dirt Music by Tim Winton written in 2002 is another good book. He writes well about people and Australia.

and a mystery, Redbrest by Jo Nesbo, Norwegian writer. It's pretty good, but not great.

New sock, a shawl and some spinning

Blue socks - with sock yarn that I dyed.






The beginning of a shawl, which will one day hopefully look like this







The first balls of wool. Progress is still slow, but the wheel is good.