I spent most of this week under my duvet as I’ve had a summer cold and so I haven’t done much knitting at all. I did finish the blue/white hat but it’s a bit funny looking, I think it’s something to do with when I did the decreases. I need to have a proper look at it and probably undo some of it to get the shape to be hat like, at the moment the top is more like a tomato or pumpkin! I did knit a few rows of the sleeves from tequila sunrise last night but progress is still slow. I can’t post pictures as my camera batteries are flat so here’s one of the latest addition to my moomin mug collection.
Most of the time I was awake I’ve been reading:
The House At Riverton by Kate Morton, a story of the goings on in a family house in Essex in the 1920s told by an elderly lady who was the housemaid who witnessed it, all those years ago. I thought it was really good and felt really immersed in the period.
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills, 1958 a student goes to a house in Tuscany to solve the puzzle behind a beautiful garden. I really enjoyed this as it’s set very near Florence, where I went on holiday a couple of years ago so I could really imagine being there.
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud, New York, three 30-somethings in 2001. I bought this as I thought it was about 1900s New York and I was looking forward to reading a third book set in a different historical period. But the turn of the century it refers to on the jacket’s blurb is 2000 not 1900, oops. I haven’t finished it yet but I have to say I’m not loving it. The characters don’t appeal to me at all but I’ll see how they are affected by 9/11 as I think that’s the point of the book.
Tags: Books, Tequila Sunrise
