Read to succeed

Drumroll please! There are only three, count 'em, three rows left on the Shetland Triangle. Then lace and I take a little break from this love affair we've been having and I think I'm going to make a Calorimetry. Or socks. Or Capitan Hat. I've gotten a bit of knitting done today, but I've been lounging about with a migraine and my house is poorly lit. Thus, no knitting with a migraine. I did, however, start reading The Friday Night Knitting Club. I bought it months ago, and my mother read my copy already, but I'm just now getting around to it. It is such unabashed chicklit that I feel like I need to go watch Love Actually immediately after finishing.

I'm enjoying it though. Unfortunately the plotline about the PhD candidate whose sweetie lives across the country and calls her "wifey" is cutting a little close right now and I've been sniffling for the last three chapters. There isn't as much actual knitting in it as I'd imagine. I can hear Professor Pretentious, my creative writing teacher, tearing it apart already in my head. I should write a knitting-related novel. After my curling-related novel and my vampires-in-Antigonish-related novel.

Speaking of novels, The Friday Night Knitting Club marks the start of my attack on the summer reading pile. I've got about five weeks and twenty-seven books to get through. Totally doable in my younger days, but I think I've hit my speedreading peak. The list this year is suitably eclectic, I like to think. While this baby is blocking, I'll have time to get cracking.

The list, in no particular order:

Third Time Lucky - Claire Cross
Time's Chariot - Ben Jeapes
The Black Thorne's Rose - Susan King
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Tempest in Time - Eugenia Riley
The Mutant Prime - Karen Haber
Mystery on the Isle of Skye - Phyllis A. Whitney
Sandwriter - Monica Hughes (okay, I've already read this one but I'm reading it again)
A Knight in Shining Armour - Jude Deveraux
Handcuffs - Bethany Griffen
Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs
Crystal Gorge (Book Three of the Dreamers) - David and Leigh Eddings
The Younger Gods (Book Four of the Dreamers) - David and Leigh Eddings
Druid's Sword - Sara Douglass
So You Want to Be a Wizard - Diane Duane
Deep Wizardry - Diane Duane
Bog Child - Siobhan Dowd
Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Best Lesbian Erotica 2008
Rumpole a la Carte - John Mortimer
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove - Christopher Moore
Island of the Sequined Love Nun - Christopher Moore
Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore
The Valley of Horses - Jean M. Auel
The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel
The Plains of Passage - Jean M. Auel
The Shelters of Stone - Jean M. Auel

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