Reading Material
Ah, there’s nothing quite like a tower of reading material. This particular pile has a book on word usage, a book on wine, a couple of children’s books, some memoirs, a thriller, some mysteries . . . a pretty nice combination of genres, I think.
And . . . what? Doesn’t everybody buy books like this? In bulk?
I tend to keep assorted titles in my Amazon shopping cart and then buy in dribs and drabs as the mood strikes, but every now and again, I just get tired of it being so full, and splurge to get the list down to manageable proportions. You know, hence the tower.
Right now, they’re waiting to be logged into my computerized database (aka Excel spreadsheet), and then will be shelved according to genre. There’s nothing quite like personal library acquisition.
Oh yeah, and there’s some knitting reading material, too….
I wouldn’t want you to think I’m not knitting. I’m plugging away at my shawl . . . which is going more and more slowly as the rows get longer, but that’s the way it goes, right? And my socks? I’m past the heel on both of them, and the leg is about halfway done on one of them. I got about three inches done in the car on the way to and from the wake last night.
Otherwise? It’s hot. Hot and sticky. (Ick.) And speaking of sticky, now it’s the “D” key on my laptop that’s causing trouble. The letter that’s sticking has varied over the months, but there’s almost always a letter of some sort sticking. So frustrating. I’ve never had one of these computers before, and while the actual computer works just fine (no complaints, knock wood), the keyboard . . . well, the keyboard stinks.
Did you hear Liz’s good news? They’re getting a new puppy and the pictures look just too cute for words. Chappy and I can’t wait to meet him.
Stay cool, everyone.
And spare a prayer for the people in Minneapolis whose bridge collapsed under them yesterday. Between that and the steam pipe explosion in NY a couple weeks ago, it’s just a little worrying, huh? What happened to our infrastructure? Or is it that all our money is going into the military these days?
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how do you find all time to read so much and still knit so much? you’re a machine!
I have piles like that.
It is really worrying about our infrastructure, isn’t it?! Listening to some of talk yesterday about the Transportation Committee trying to get more money for infrastructure repairs since 2003 and not having any luck. UGH.
Nice choices for the knitting reading. I’m really anxious to see the Twisted Sisters book myself.
Yeah. I wasn’t too thrilled about that explosion in NYC since it was about 2 blocks from my office. And they’ve been saying the Tappanzee is in trouble for years. Not very comforting now thanks to recent events…
I can hardly wait for the new Ik to come out on the newsstand. When I subscribed it always arrived a few weeks after it was avaialbe at the newsstand. Tres frustrating. I have the Twisted Sisters Sock book and I love their stuff.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I buy books in bulk. So no, you’re not alone. And I enjoyed “Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading” when I read it a couple of years ago. Any devoted reader will relate to it, I think.
It’s Beastly hot here too. Little Koni will have to work to stay cool!