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How can June nearly be over? Well, it is, so I guess I’d better get ready for July. The weather seems like it intends to welcome the change over with heat, although my weekend forecast now just shows upcoming temperatures in the upper 90s, rather than with a bleeding thermometer, like the long-term forecast had originally shown.<\/p>\n

Nothing says heat of summer like some wool knitting, right? At least socks are small. I once spent an entire summer knitting a blanket with strips of Icelandic wool draped over my lap, which was not ideal.<\/p>\n

My Posey socks are trucking along now. Amazing that sometimes all it takes is finding a way around the small problems holding you up (not being able to get the heel striping to work with the four-color sequence) to let you move ahead more quickly. (Or quicker, at least.) I am hopeful that I can get the pair finished before the Tour de France starts next weekend, when I want to start a shawl with some brightly hued gradient yarn my folks gave me last year. Photos and pattern mulling to come next week.<\/p>\n

On the reading front, I’m still listening to Jenny Colgan’s The Bookshop on the Corner<\/em>, in which only good things happen to the heroine, except for when they’re bad things that turn out to have been good things in disguise. There’s a lot of serendipity in the book and the heroine is instantly liked by everyone she meets and is good at everything she tries, seemingly without effort. Despite my seeming grumpy about the book, I am enjoying it (and the reader is excellent<\/em> with all the accents!), but will require some “vegetable” books after finishing this very sweet one. I have several YA Sync downloads to listen to (maybe The Red Umbrella<\/em> about the Peter Pan project that sent unaccompanied Cuban children to America in the 1960s) while I wait for books I’ve started to come back off hold. I’m #2 for American Street<\/em> and it seems like a good time to dive back into a story about a young woman whose mother ended up in a detention center when they landed in the U.S.<\/p>\n

On paper, I started Leah on the Offbeat<\/em> by Becky Albertalli, her companion to Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda<\/em>, this week and am about halfway through. A friend had been lukewarm about it, which probably helped to temper my expectations, so I keep being pleased with how much I like the story.<\/p>\n

I’m a couple chapters into both Children of Blood and Bone<\/em> and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower<\/em>, and it’s too early to tell how I feel about them.<\/p>\n

Rudi is away this weekend and the Fourth of July gives me a day off next week, so I’ll have plenty of reading time in between protest marches and festivals. (And if the thermometer starts bleeding, I’ll take my book to the pool.)<\/p>\n

Head over to Kat’s<\/a> to see what other folks are reading and knitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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