Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Playing with kids in my new volunteer gig.

2. The first outdoor concert of the season, followed in short order by the first bar (patio) concert since COVID began.

3. Strawberries in our yogurt. Risotto with fiddleheads. A salad with pea shoots, garlic chives, and asparagus. Stir fry with pak choy from the garden

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

It occurred to me suddenly last week that this coming Sunday was Sheep and Wool and that if I wanted to debut something new (weather-pending), I’d need to get a move on finishing a piece. So I’ve pulled out Fully Charged, my Tour de France 2021 shawl, to see if I can finish it. Technically, I could do the border rows now, but I still have yarn and, frankly, the shawl seems a little small at the moment. So I’m just continuing on with the stripey section until one of the balls gets small enough for me to start feeling worried.

I have not yet started Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway, but I’d better get started because it’s 600 pages and due back in less than two weeks. It’s in my knitting bag for tomorrow.

Visit As Kat Knits for this week’s reading and crafting roundup.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share one-word reviews of the last ten books we read. I’m going to mix it up slightly and give you the one word I currently most associate with each of the last ten I’ve started (feel free to ask in the comments if you want more detail):

1. Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim: Adjectives (in progress)
2. Saint Young Men by Hikaru Nakamura: Deities (in progress)
3. The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg: Spin-off
4. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny: Waiting (in progress)
5. Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson: Celebrities
6. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin: Tearful
7. Shelf Respect by Annie Austen: Bibliophilia
8. A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske: Magic
9. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki: Doomed
10. Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto: Family (in progress)

How about you? What is the word you’d most associate with a book you’re reading or recently finished?