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Jan. 11th, 2022 10:05 amThings:
- I have started this year's gift knitting! (Yes, I am starting very early, I know.) I made a schedule for the whole year and arranged things so that I always have more than one project at the same time, because being able to switch to different knitting when I get bored or frustrated with a project is important. Currently, I am working on a lacy table runner for my sister and a shawl for my mom. And also socks for me.
- Not the two-at-a-time socks, because I finished those! They were the fastest socks I've ever knit in my life. It's still not going to be my go-to sock knitting method but I'm definitely going to keep it in my back pocket for projects I want to zip through.
- I am in the process of reading Riddley Walker right now which is, as ever, slow going both because of the nature of the writing and because I always want to read that book out loud. There was a moment this weekend when I thought about trying to get an audiobook version, because hearing someone else read it would be interesting, but I ended up deciding against it. I think actually getting to see Riddley's spelling is an important part of the experience, really.
- Also, apparently the audiobook is not available in the States, so...
- I wish I had recorded all the titles of all the post-nuclear post-apocalyptica I read in college. I went through a period where I was reading a lot of that particular subgenre, including a lot of short stories, but now I don't remember most of the titles, other than the ones that I purchased. Looking at lists of post-apocalyptica on the internet today gets you a huge glut of zombies and climate-fiction* before you get to the mid-century nuclear anxiety stuff I'm actually interested in, and it's exhausting to dig through. This is why I now track the books I read.
- I would really prefer to be at home reading and/or knitting but instead I am at work. Alas.
*I realize that the cli-fi is coming from a similar place as the nuclear anxiety books - "this is the way we are currently in danger of destroying the world, let's talk about the effects of that" - and much of it may be excellent but I don't have the emotional remove to enjoy cli-fi on basically any level and I don't read fiction I don't enjoy. It's going to be a while before I can read disease-based apocalyptica again as well.
- I have started this year's gift knitting! (Yes, I am starting very early, I know.) I made a schedule for the whole year and arranged things so that I always have more than one project at the same time, because being able to switch to different knitting when I get bored or frustrated with a project is important. Currently, I am working on a lacy table runner for my sister and a shawl for my mom. And also socks for me.
- Not the two-at-a-time socks, because I finished those! They were the fastest socks I've ever knit in my life. It's still not going to be my go-to sock knitting method but I'm definitely going to keep it in my back pocket for projects I want to zip through.
- I am in the process of reading Riddley Walker right now which is, as ever, slow going both because of the nature of the writing and because I always want to read that book out loud. There was a moment this weekend when I thought about trying to get an audiobook version, because hearing someone else read it would be interesting, but I ended up deciding against it. I think actually getting to see Riddley's spelling is an important part of the experience, really.
- Also, apparently the audiobook is not available in the States, so...
- I wish I had recorded all the titles of all the post-nuclear post-apocalyptica I read in college. I went through a period where I was reading a lot of that particular subgenre, including a lot of short stories, but now I don't remember most of the titles, other than the ones that I purchased. Looking at lists of post-apocalyptica on the internet today gets you a huge glut of zombies and climate-fiction* before you get to the mid-century nuclear anxiety stuff I'm actually interested in, and it's exhausting to dig through. This is why I now track the books I read.
- I would really prefer to be at home reading and/or knitting but instead I am at work. Alas.
*I realize that the cli-fi is coming from a similar place as the nuclear anxiety books - "this is the way we are currently in danger of destroying the world, let's talk about the effects of that" - and much of it may be excellent but I don't have the emotional remove to enjoy cli-fi on basically any level and I don't read fiction I don't enjoy. It's going to be a while before I can read disease-based apocalyptica again as well.
