One pair done!
Used these two tutorials to help out. I’ve nearly memorized both.
What makes me very happy is seeing all the family that live with me, were wearing their slipper socks during these chilly days and loving them. I hope this pair finds happy feet.
The fog is so thick here we couldn’t see one line even if it bit us!🤣😂
Really, I’m more excited about actually finishing my laundry today. Oh. I still have a couple dishes in the sink. You’ll hear my Ta-Da before I go to bed.
My Grape Year by Laura Bradbury
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Who knew that a book about a foreign exchange teenager would have me in tears and longing to read the next in the series immediately? This book is the reason I read books. It took me to a place I hadn’t been before. It challenged a lot of preconceived notions. And I picked up a word or two more of French. That probably doesn’t count for much, but every little word counts, right?
Laura Bradbury can write an engaging book. When I found I couldn’t read it tiny bits at a time, I longed for more of the story than the time reading it took. I added Whispersynch, and the voice of Hope Newhouse (Narrator) made the story even better, especially since she pronounced the words text-to-speech or my own struggles with unfamiliar French words.
I don’t remember how I heard of the Grape books, and I hope it might be in connection with a movie or television series because this could be quite good in that medium, too. Anyway, I got the first Grape on Kindle Unlimited but decided to buy it and buy the Audio to go with it as I love the layers it adds to the written word.
I highly recommend this to teens and older. Even if 18 is 56 (yikes!) years ago, I still remember the angst of those years quite well, sometimes better than I remember where I put the keys, ya know?
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Okay, I didn’t love this as much as the first one, but it kept me wanting to read more of the series.
Kevin R. Free (Narrator) reads the story with enthusiasm.
Sorry this is so short, but I want to go find the next one and read it soon! I read it on Libby!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “bake.” Use it as a noun or a verb, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
Yeah. These poor trees may be on their last year. I even ordered a live tree, well, Rosemary bush shaped like a tree. But it won’t get here until AFTER Christmas. One thing we realized this morning as my brother did the heavy lifting, as I played director, was the lights wouldn’t work. So they will be a purchase to make later this week.
Hopefully, we’ll have a festive mood by the actual day. We hope we’ll have company. But haven’t a clue what we’ll cook. I’m not into cooking. But I hope we can find a frozen veggie lasagna to bake. Otherwise, I have no clue! Christmas Valley is closed on the actual holiday so no restaurant experience for the non-cook.
But have a fully baked Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Well, this was clever and different. And a very short read. But Kevin R. Free (Narrator) keeps the story moving and interesting.
Who knew that Murderbots kept diaries? Well, that represents the humor of this science fiction. My friend, Yvensong, raved about it. She was right. It was a lot of fun.
I was lucky to find this on Libby, but I may buy the whole series soon.
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Cassandra Campbell (Narrator) did a great job bringing this story to life. The funny thing is I read this long ago and gave it five stars. It was a Kindle version. It was way back when I didn’t bother writing a review, so I don’t know what I fell in love with.
The writing was excellent. And it did keep me guessing as to who might have done it or didn’t do it. But it is more about controversial issues for the parents and the children. And how a lack of 0f communication between family members can cause many problems. And maybe the feeling I had heard this story before makes me less in love with it now? I don’t know. It is a heartbreaker.
I finished reading this a few days ago and am just now writing this review. So, decide for yourself. This may be a great read for you!
My hands are tired. But the heels are turned. Just the leg and cuff left to do. Yay!
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