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Circles of Color

Hmm, It seems I have been enveloped in a bit of a fog.  Although I like to think I accept change and am grounded in reality, this is probably a bit delusional.  My heart doesn't always want to admit what my brain knows to be true. 

 

And yet, there is comfort in fog, not just disbelief, and we are ready for the sun to rise, it all fades away.

 

I am rather out of practice at writing.  There is much I have wanted to say, perhaps some if it is still there, floating around in my brain; perhaps it will emerge.  In the meantime at least I have a little knitting.

 

 

There are several failed sweaters sitting in a pile upstairs.  I can't face them yet.  Let's just say that I have had other priorities.  

 

This scarf, however, was a success.  The pattern is Spectra, by Stephen West, knit in Madeline Tosh Merino Light and Noro Silk Garden Sock. If you look at the photo in the link you will not exactly see my scarf.  My gauge is smaller, intentionally so, and as a result my spectra is smaller and more scarf-like in scale.  I like to think it is more feminine, but perhaps it is just girlish.  

 

Nonetheless, I love it.  It is the scarf I wanted.  As there are no further photos, you will just have to let your imagination soar.

 

 

 

Booklist 2012

Somewhere along the path that was 2012 I stopped blogging about books read.  Primarily I had doubts as to whether it was relevant to anything at all, even to myself, but also it was just a scattered year full of changes and there were times when both reading and blogging fell by the wayside.  

 

It was not my best year, reading-wise.  I didn't read anything for rwo months, and yet I still managed to read only 62 books.  Granted  a significant number of them were light escapist reading,  with less than half (26) being books that made me think, reconsider, or open my eyes or mind in any new ways, but I think it is ot so much what I read that is important, but that I read, and that I found it worthwhile for whatever reason.

Now I shall subject you to the list. (an * has been placed at the end of each book which is light, escapist reading)

1. Azar Nafisi. Thing I've Been Silent About

2. Andrea Eames. Cry of the Go Away Bird

3. Danielle Steele. 44 Charles Street *

4. Charles Frazier. Nightwoods 

5. Diane Mott Davidson. Crunch Time *

6. Danielle Steele. Happy Birthday *

7. Danielle Steele. Hotel Vendome*

8. Stuart Woods. Grass Roots *

9. Sophie Kinsella. I've Got Your Number *

10. Paul Fussell. Class

11 John T. Molloy. Why Men Marry Some Women and not others

12. Dan Wells. Partials

13. Isabel Wilkerson. The Warmth of Other Suns

14. Carré Otis. Beauty Disrupted

15. Alexandra Zissu. The Conscious Kitchen

16. Mark Walton. Boundless Potential

17. Suze Orman. Young Fabulous and Broke

18. Suze Orman. Women and Money 

19 Annabel Pitcher. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

20. Tim Gunn. Shaken not Stirred *

21. Diane Mott Davidson. Dark Tort *

22. Diane Mott Davidson. Sweet Revenge *

23. Diane Mott Davidson. Catering to Nobody *

24. Diane Mott Davidson. Dying for Chocolate *

25. Diane Mott Davidson. The Cereal Murders *

26. Diane Mott Davidson. The Last Suppers*

27. Diane Mott Davidson. The Main Corpse *

28. Diane Mott Davidson. The Grilling Season *

29. Diane Mott Davidson. Prime Cut *

30. Diane Mott Davidson. Sticks and Scones *

32. Diane Mott Davidson. Chopping Spree *

33. Diane Mott Davidson. Double Shot *

34. Carolly Erikson. The Last Wife of Henry VIII *

35. Margaret Lazarus Dean. The Time it Takes to Fall

36. Michael Chabon. The Final Solution

37. Eric Abrahamson. A Perfect Mess

38. Karent Thompson Walker. The Age of Miracles.

39. Maria Dueñas. The Time In Between.

40. Andrea Pomerantz Lustig. How to Look Expensive *

41. Jennifer Baumgartner. You are What You Wear *

42. Penelope Fitzgerald. Offshore.

43. Elizabeth L. Cline. Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion.

44. David Brooks. The Social Animal.

45. America's Test Kitchen. Slow Cooker Revolution

46. Luca Turin. Perfumes: The Guide.

47. Anne Lamott. Traveling Mercies.

48. Elizabeth Warren. The Two-Income Trap: Why American Middle Class Families are Going Broke.

49. Gillian Flynn.  Gone Girl.

50. Thomas J. Stanley. The Millionaire Next Door.

51. Suzette Hollingsworth. The Paradox *

52. Suzette Hollingsworth. The Conspiracy. *

53. Lee Child. Bad Luck and Trouble. *

54. C.S. Lewis. Out of the Silent Planet.

55. C.S. Lewis. Perelandra.

56. Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife

57. C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength.

58. Keith Devlin. Introduction to Mathematical Thinking.

59. Andy Andrews. How Do You Kill Eleven Million People? * (stupid)

60. Lisa Jackson. Unspoken. *

61. Tom Clancy. Locked On. *