Who's on first? Krokbragd done

 This morning started too early. Here's a sample text thread with patient Handsome Son adjusting kindly to my confusion. I'm in blue. 

Things did improve after that. I walked early before it got hot, then spent the morning on the weaving and got it done 

Here it is, still on the loom

Here the moment of truth where you cut it off and see if it keeps its shape. It did.

Here's the back with all those ends woven in 

And the reveal, the front, with a row of pink tulips on gold,  and it's done. 

This was a great learning curve in several ways. I developed more skill in reading the work, and it's going to carry over to the bandweaving when I resume it.

Tea and cake arrived after a tuna sandwich lunch.

 Also strawberries.

I finished the Ayelet Waldman, hm, a bit long and drawn out, more years than I was up for, but still worth reading. It starts with a tragedy and goes in all directions from there 

Then there was Whistler, the latest Ann Patchett.  

As always, it's very readable and the characters are very annoying. It takes a while to find out what the title is about, and it's intriguing.

But, big minus for me, there's a lot of the publishing world in it, tiny world that writers think is significant and important. 

Well, they would, wouldn't they, to quote a very different lady in a very different but equally navel-gazing context.

And now I'm deep in The Matchmaker's Gift

 

At first I was all oh, not another East Side novel, then I got into it and it's not just another East Side novel. It's got generations and they're easy to keep straight when the story swerves back and forth, possibly a side effect of the wit sharpening involved in learning krokbragd. 

There's a steady forward drive of story.

There's magic realism, in good hands, it works. Take that, Allende! There's someone besides you who can do it. 

But there are plenty of writers who try and don't manage it, names redacted to protect the guilty. But I have a little list.

Anyway that's the current reading. Happy day everyone.  Read all the things worth finishing but stop when you want. We don't have to finish something just because we started it. So there!