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“Five Children and It” by E. Nesbitt. This book was fantastic. “My Grandmother Asked me to Tell you She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman. My sister gave it to me, with some other books, saying “I liked this one” which is not a resounding endorsement of the others, but I’ll get through them eventually I guess, mostly to get them off the footstool in my living room. I read the 1-star reviews on Amazon, which was actually good in this case, because they gave me the idea that if I pushed through the first 100 pages or so it would get better. Those first chapters were too twee for me, but once things started happening this was a good read. “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace. I’d always meant to read this book, just maybe not now. When I accidentally made it active on the library website and it started shipping to me immediately, I was stuck. My strategy normally is to get through a chapter or two every day because I’m afraid if I put it down I might forget who everyone is. The...

Daily efforts (formerly 1 st draft) Edited Chapter 5 (formerly 6) of WWS. Read the rest of Vinterlys. Typed “Tale of the Tail” which needs a better title and did a lot of edits.    Accomplishments (formerly Editing) Posted Selkie girls to OWW. Connecting Critted 7 I actually read someone’s novel start to finish! It took eight months. Got back 3 Circulating 1 Knitting Ann Boleyn (1998).  Still on the hips, knitting downward. This month 0 rows. Okracoke cardigan (Shirley Paden). Started the month with 23.5 inches of the back done. Finished the back (29”).   Did the right front start to finish and started the left. Slow Fade sock (Knitty FF 17). Continued with first sock. Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). Finished second sleeve, started back. 

“Blood Oranges” by Caitlin Kiernan as Kathleen Tierney. The way she talks about this book made me curious. She thinks it was a mistake. And to be honest, maybe the triteness of Urban Fantasy doesn’t really suit her… themes? Writing style? General message? Interesting read, maybe not for the right reason. “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas. The boy had it lying around and for some reason he decided to read it (because exams were over, so reading could be fun again?) He talked it up so much, I said could I read it after (we actually traded – His Majesty’s Dragon for this). In the meantime we watched the movie and he pointed out all the places it deviated. An interesting game to me, since I took a class in adaptation in school. This being a paperback was a nice thing to carry around, while the other things were good to read when I was at home. Also, it didn’t hurt that the characters weren’t hard to keep track of since I’d watched the movie. Also, at a certain point...