{"id":6673,"date":"2016-11-03T00:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2016-11-03T02:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T07:47:27","slug":"early-november-yarn-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6673","title":{"rendered":"early november yarn along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/30116051954\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Early November Yarn Along\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5323\/30116051954_064402b18e.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Early November Yarn Along\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This photo is misleading. I mean, sure, this shawl lives next to the couch for ease of tv knitting. And, yes, this book has been in my bag every day the past two weeks. And sometimes I pick up one or t&#8217;other. But I&#8217;m tired of both of them and want them both to be done so I can focus my attention on other, more fun ways to spend my time.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea&#8217;s Shawl has been on the needles since July. I&#8217;ve done 20 sets of stripes thus far, and there still remain a bunch of stitches on my needles. Since I need to get it down to 7 (or so), I&#8217;ll just keep going. It has to end sooner or later, right?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more obvious to me that <em>Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World<\/em> is creeping toward the end. I&#8217;ve got a mere 50 pages to go, which I could take care of in two hours, if I just cared enough to finish. But \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it&#8217;s dragging. I keep losing track of what Middle Eastern country she&#8217;s talking about in each chapter, and I&#8217;m easily distracted by what seem to be the bunch of articles she adapted into a book, rather than a firm narrative illustrated by anecdotes. The book is two weeks overdue (our fines don&#8217;t kick in until a book is a month late) to the library, and as such I&#8217;m loathe to put the book down and pick up another print book. Instead, I&#8217;ve downloaded the second audiobook in the Fox and O&#8217;Hare series, <em>The Heist<\/em>, by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg. It&#8217;s a ridiculous caper series (he&#8217;s a world-famous thief, she&#8217;s the FBI agent who caught him; together they now travel the world recovering riches from bad people in an undercover government op), with eye-rollingly bad sex talk. Think <em>To Catch a Thief<\/em> and dial the cheesiness up by a factor of five. It&#8217;s probably really not helped by being read by a guy who reads with a wink-wink-nudge intonation. And, yet, it&#8217;s fun and it&#8217;s mindless and is exactly what I need right now, with less than a week to go until an election that&#8217;s still mind-blowingly close. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get back to the important reading any day now, but in the meantime, I&#8217;ll be following Kate and Nick&#8217;s adventures while I wash the dishes.<\/p>\n<hr width=50%>\n<p>Yarning along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/2016\/11\/yarn-along-304.html\">Ginny<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is misleading. I mean, sure, this shawl lives next to the couch for ease of tv knitting. And, yes, this book has been in my bag every day the past two weeks. And sometimes I pick up one or t&#8217;other. 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