The knitting may have been a bit thin on the ground around here lately, but there are TWO new projects on the go which I can't show you yet (boo!) and this one, which I can...
The picture is today's entry for the Fat Mum Slim "Photo a day" challenge. Yes, you've seen the project before, and aside from the colour change, you can't see my progress as the cable is shorter than the round, but it's proof that I have actually done some knitting amidst all the reading. (There is a fair bit of yarn left so I should get a few more inches done before binding off and showing you how I intend to wear it.) I've finished two books this week - the excellent dystopian novel Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde and the omnipresent The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.
I've been a fan of Jasper Fforde for some time (to the extent that in my 'former life', I took my team of co-workers to the Fforde Ffestival for the weekend - we all got to meet him and he even wrote a postcard to my friend Rachel). Sadly the hardback had lain semi-forgotten in my bedside cupboard since Little Miss was a baby, when I was too tired to read it for fear of dropping it on her head - such was life before Kindles - and I'm so glad to have finallyread listened to it. There were echoes of Catch 22 and Brave New World with a bit of Douglas Adams thrown in alongside the humour I've come to expect of Fforde. Now I'm eagerly awaiting the sequel which is expected next year.
I've been a fan of Jasper Fforde for some time (to the extent that in my 'former life', I took my team of co-workers to the Fforde Ffestival for the weekend - we all got to meet him and he even wrote a postcard to my friend Rachel). Sadly the hardback had lain semi-forgotten in my bedside cupboard since Little Miss was a baby, when I was too tired to read it for fear of dropping it on her head - such was life before Kindles - and I'm so glad to have finally
It was inevitable I'd read The Fault in Our Stars - it's everywhere and people kept asking what I thought of it. I'm sure you already know that it's a tale of teenage lovers who meet at a cancer-support group, and that the main character, Hazel, is terminally ill. I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised just how much I liked it - certainly 4 out of 5 for the star rating. I laughed, and cried... and highlighted some quotes - one in particular which I keep coming back to:
I couldn't disagree more! You?That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches.
I want to read that book. Because the movie's out or whatever, there's an insane hold list for it. I can wait though.
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