{"id":9842,"date":"2020-01-16T01:27:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9842"},"modified":"2020-01-16T05:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:43:34","slug":"unraveled-and-unphotographed-in-mid-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9842","title":{"rendered":"unraveled and unphotographed in mid-january"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s check-in of books and knitting is without a photo because my phone is charging and I am too lazy to go unplug it and to pull out my knitting, which is currently sitting beneath an avalanche-ready pile of laundry on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>So instead, I&#8217;ll just tell you. Last weekend I got a row knit on my shawl. That would seem unimpressive (and it is), but since I haven&#8217;t done anything besides use its presence as an implement of guilt since September, I&#8217;m deeming that success. There is a possibility that I could knit the final row and then bind it off this coming weekend, but let&#8217;s not get carried away with things.<\/p>\n<p>On the reading front, I&#8217;m listening to <em>Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts<\/em> by Kate Racculia. I didn&#8217;t finish it on Overdrive, so I took it out on cd, which means I&#8217;m way less good about actually listening to it. But I&#8217;m enjoying this quest-read about a hospital development researcher (and her friends) who gets caught up in a scavenger hunt\/quest game in the wake of a Boston billionaire&#8217;s death. I&#8217;m more than halfway through and would love to spend some time this weekend listening to it.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, I&#8217;ve got two books in progress. Jennifer Chiaverini&#8217;s <em>Christmas Bells<\/em> tells the parallel stories of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during the Civil War and a contemporary Boston-area music teacher\/choirmaster and the organist who is in love with her. It&#8217;s fine, but a bit slow-going since chapters alternate between eras and points of view. My other book, <em>We Met in December<\/em>, is a cute contemporary rom-com, but it, too, is going to shift perspectives. Three books on the go with this literary device is really too many, so maybe I&#8217;ll put one on hold and pick up something that can commit to telling a story from a single character&#8217;s perspective. I&#8217;ve picked up a bunch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2020\/01\/the-2019-cybils-finalists.html\">Cybils finalists<\/a> from the library, so there&#8217;s probably at least one of those that doesn&#8217;t shift perspective by chapter.<\/p>\n<p>What are you reading and\/or crafting these days? (If you want to see what others are working through, head to <a href=\"http:\/\/askatknits.com\/2020\/01\/15\/unraveled-wednesday-1-15-20\/\">As Kat Knits<\/a> for her weekly roundup.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s check-in of books and knitting is without a photo because my phone is charging and I am too lazy to go unplug it and to pull out my knitting, which is currently sitting beneath an avalanche-ready pile of laundry on the couch. So instead, I&#8217;ll just tell you. 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