yarn along 06.11.14

 joining up with ginnie at small things for this week's yarn along:

 crocheting: i warned you this would be the summer of crochet afghans and i wasn't kidding!  here's my latest, a neat ripple (pattern by lucy of attic24 (rav link)) worked up in my most favorite of all the acrylic yarns... vanna!  it's making me endlessly happy!

reading: i learned about the macken charm from kate, who posted a review of it a year or so ago on her blog.  kate lives on vancouver island, where the book is set,  i went on my honeymoon on vancouver island and have such fond memories of it that i wanted to read this book solely because of that.  

the macken charm is a light and easy read due mainly to mr. hodgin's mastery of prose.  this man can write, the words just roll off the page, you flow along his word choices as easily as floating down a river.  the characters are all just enough over the top to make them lovable, and surprisingly believable.   the enjoyment i'm finding in his writing style has made some other literary areas he struggles with (his less than subtle foreshadowing, and the over the top symbolism with the crows) more bearable.  i'm not quite finished with the book, but have enjoyed it thus far and would definitely recommend it for a summer reading list!

now my friends, what are y'all reading and knitting?!?

-melissa

Comments

[kate]

Hey, as soon as I saw the cover I grinned! I'm always so nervous when someone reads a book I reviewed, as I know reading is so subjective. Glad you have enjoyed it for the most part.

I'm reading The Woman Upstairs right now. Good, not spectacular. Just finished The Art Forger, same response. And am working my way through the Outlander series, just for ridiculous fun. Knitting the same three things still, a scrap blanket (deadline July 18, but it is getting hot to work on it), fingerless mitts and socks.

[SquareMary]

Reading The Changeling by Robin Jenkins. So far so good. It's about a school teacher who takes a boy from the slums of Glasgow on his family holiday with him. Is something bad going to happen??
Knitting a blanket, kind of knitting along with a Rowan KAL, mostly making it up as I go along!

[Meghan]

You are the crocheting queen! I like what you and Vanna have done there :) I'm just getting started with a guilty pleasure/light/fluffy read Emily Giffin's The One & Only....I'm not currently knitting but instead spending my "free" time sorting the gobs of photos I recently ordered into albums. I did however teach our neighbor girl to knit and you'll be proud to hear she is working on a dish cloth!