Episode 77: Hiatus is over

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Today’s segments include: drafting, fully drafted, lit review, five favorite things, and noteworthy. Pull out your knitting and let’s knit together!

Drafting:

Fish lips kiss heel socks by Sox Therapist in Lollipop yarn colorway Color Addiction on size 1/2.25mm 32″ Hiya Hiya sharp circular.

Spinning Into the Whirled Targhee colorway Winds of Change on my Ashford Traveller spinning wheel.

Fully Drafted:

Fish lips kiss heel socks by Sox Therapist in Desert Vista Dyeworks viso colorway Zombody Loves the Knitgirllls on size 1/2.25mm 32″ Hiya Hiya sharp circular.

Lit Review:

What I’m Reading: How to Be Both by Ali Smith for my book club.

Description from Goodreads: How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance.

A NOTE TO THE READER:
Who says stories reach everybody in the same order?
This novel can be read in two ways and this book provides you with both.
In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA.
In the other half of printed editions the narrative CAMERA precedes EYES.
The narratives are exactly the same in both versions, just in a different order.

The books are intentionally printed in two different ways, so that readers can randomly have different experiences reading the same text. So, depending on which edition you happen to receive, the book will be: EYES, CAMERA, or CAMERA, EYES. Enjoy the adventure.

What I’ve Read: Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Excellent book. I really enjoyed the audio production that Poehler did with a host of guests. I read this book just when I needed a bit of humor in my life, through April, the hardest month of the year. There are so many gems; I need to pick up the book in hard copy.

From Goodreads: In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book is full of words to live by.

What’s Up Next: Dragonfly In Amber (Outlander, Book 2): by Diana Gabaldon | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense

The sweeping saga begun in Outlander continues in Diana Gabaldon’s 1992 Dragonfly in Amber. In it, the Frasers return from France to Scotland, only to be separated, and revelations of the strange relationships within families come to light.

Dragonfly in Amber, follows the continuing escapades of the time-shifting Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser and her Highlander husband, Jamie Fraser, straddling the centuries-old and near pasts to offer a compelling tale of intrigue, romance, war and the strains of complicated familial connections. Focusing largely on the 1745 Jacobite Rising in Scotland, it offers a down-to-earth view of a historical event that does not receive much attention in American classroom, simultaneously promoting interest in it and providing an authentic background in which the story of how the Frasers handle the series of circumstances that confront them can take place.

Five Favorite Things:

Maryland Sheep and Wool purchases!

Kairos 19.3 Buck and Bellwoar “Crafting Online Spaces: Identity and Materiality”

Noteworthy: Not much in the way of announcements right now. I hope to be back to a regular recording schedule soon!