Rock lobster.
I really wish that I had a great reason for being quiet all month.
But I don't. No weddings, no funerals (thank goat - to quote one of the guys from my motorcycle club), no loss of limbs. Nuthin.
There really hasn't been much knitting or spinning either. I've just hit a rut. Most I've been able to manage to knit is a row or 2 a night on my Dublin Bay socks. The rate I'm going, they'll be done next year.
I've been reading a lot tho.
No. Not Harry Potter. Not yet. I'm waiting for the library to get a copy back in, or Heather. Whichever comes first.
So I'm going to do a mini review. Right now.
Khaled Hosseini people. He's the shit. If you haven't read The Kite Runner then go out an get a copy. DOUBLE TIME PEOPLE! Because once you are done with that, and believe me you WILL love it, you have to go get a copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns. Its rare that an author can out-do their first work, but he did. I heard an interview with him on NPR right before this book was released, where he was discussing that he really wanted to do a book about women this time. I think that usually, for a man, its difficult to capture the thoughts and actions of women, just because we're different. Just like I don't think that women can really accurately portray men in their writing, but we feel that they do because as women, we understand what women writers are saying. Do I make sense? In this case, as a woman reading about women, written by a man, there was no miscommunication. It was beautiful. This man's writing just sings off of the page to you. I can only hope he keeps on writing, because if each book is going to be better than the last....well....Harry Potter for grownups. Crack on a page. That's all I can say about that.
And my best friend is in town (or as close as you can get by being at Alpine Lake, though she was HERE for a bit too) with the kids. She'll be bringing all 4 of the genius babies to stay here with me and the dudes on Saturday, so I'll be radio silent again for a while. I've been teaching the oldest to knit, and since they'll be her for a bit, I'm going to teach her to spin too.
Friday night I'm having Lobster. With a side of lobster. And some lobster. Won it in a sales contest. With lobster. I don't mean to gloat. Lobster.
Yes I do.
Lobster!
But I don't. No weddings, no funerals (thank goat - to quote one of the guys from my motorcycle club), no loss of limbs. Nuthin.
There really hasn't been much knitting or spinning either. I've just hit a rut. Most I've been able to manage to knit is a row or 2 a night on my Dublin Bay socks. The rate I'm going, they'll be done next year.
I've been reading a lot tho.
No. Not Harry Potter. Not yet. I'm waiting for the library to get a copy back in, or Heather. Whichever comes first.
So I'm going to do a mini review. Right now.
Khaled Hosseini people. He's the shit. If you haven't read The Kite Runner then go out an get a copy. DOUBLE TIME PEOPLE! Because once you are done with that, and believe me you WILL love it, you have to go get a copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns. Its rare that an author can out-do their first work, but he did. I heard an interview with him on NPR right before this book was released, where he was discussing that he really wanted to do a book about women this time. I think that usually, for a man, its difficult to capture the thoughts and actions of women, just because we're different. Just like I don't think that women can really accurately portray men in their writing, but we feel that they do because as women, we understand what women writers are saying. Do I make sense? In this case, as a woman reading about women, written by a man, there was no miscommunication. It was beautiful. This man's writing just sings off of the page to you. I can only hope he keeps on writing, because if each book is going to be better than the last....well....Harry Potter for grownups. Crack on a page. That's all I can say about that.
And my best friend is in town (or as close as you can get by being at Alpine Lake, though she was HERE for a bit too) with the kids. She'll be bringing all 4 of the genius babies to stay here with me and the dudes on Saturday, so I'll be radio silent again for a while. I've been teaching the oldest to knit, and since they'll be her for a bit, I'm going to teach her to spin too.
Friday night I'm having Lobster. With a side of lobster. And some lobster. Won it in a sales contest. With lobster. I don't mean to gloat. Lobster.
Yes I do.
Lobster!
I'm done!!!! You can borrow it now!!!!
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