{"id":10696,"date":"2020-10-29T01:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2020-10-29T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T10:03:43","slug":"final-october-unraveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10696","title":{"rendered":"final october unraveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50543552701\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Final October Unraveling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50543552701_aaf0fc268c_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Final October Unraveling\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This week brought some literal unraveling as I was knitting in the dark and managed, in a move I still don&#8217;t quite understand, to wrap the yarn entirely around my cuff without noticing until several rows later. I attempted to just rip back to where I made the mistake, but did I mention it was dark&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, even if I do not finish by Halloween, I will finish in the next week or so, and I vote these are autumnal colors and I will wear them with pleasure in November. Then maybe I&#8217;ll finish the socks I started in March 2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the last week I finished <em>How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse<\/em> and read more of <em>We Ride Upon Sticks<\/em>. (I&#8217;ve reached Halloween night in Salem, Massachusetts.) I started a middle-grade nonfiction book written by a guy I grew up with, but it&#8217;s about dinosaurs and I don&#8217;t feel like reading about dinosaurs right now.<\/p>\n<p>So I started listening to <em>Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why<\/em> by Washington Post humor news columnist Alexandra Petri. Have you read her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/alexandra-petri\/\">Petri Dishes<\/a> column? May I suggest it may be the only thing to make you laugh over the next couple weeks while we battle for the soul of our country?<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up two novels to keep my mind occupied in the next week. First, I&#8217;m going to read Brandy Colbert&#8217;s <em>The Voting Booth<\/em>, because it&#8217;s about young people being hugely invested in voting, and I&#8217;m desperately hoping they come through for us this year.<\/p>\n<p>Then, while we wait to find out our fate, I&#8217;m going to read Evie Dunmore&#8217;s <em>Bringing Down the Duke<\/em>, which is feminist historical fiction and seems likely to have the happy ending I will require in every book until real life presents us with the same.<\/p>\n<p>What sort of comfort reading do you have lined up for the next couple weeks?<\/p>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/askatknits.com\/2020\/10\/28\/unraveled-wednesday-10-28-20\/\">As Kat Knits<\/a> to see how others are channeling their stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week brought some literal unraveling as I was knitting in the dark and managed, in a move I still don&#8217;t quite understand, to wrap the yarn entirely around my cuff without noticing until several rows later. 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