Fiber Tuesday (Already Slipping)

Delayed post due to a site visit and the resultant migraine (to much sun).

Reading: Still working my way through Sarah Anderson's The Spinner's Book of of Yarn Designs: Techniques for Creating 80 Yarns. I might have to experiment with oddball yarns here soon.

Spinning: Practicing carding and long draw. I've managed a bobbin's worth of inconsistent woolen singles. I like to think I'm getting more control, but..

Knitting: Finished the hat (except for blocking). I haven't decided on a new project, but I should probably pick one out before next week's road trip. Not sure if I should cast on another hat or go back to the brown scarf. Am I brave enough to start the merino sweater?

Reading Wednesday

Read: Last week, my leaving the office conversation with coworker A included a discussion of local bookstores versus the ease of buying ebooks. Somehow she mentioned Django Wexler as an author worth buying immediately when I new book came out. I've been curious about his books since I was on an anime panel with him and he said intelligent things. As I didn't have anything else lined up to read, I bought his The Thousand Names on the ride home (we live in the future). I moderately enjoyed it and its sequel, but I love the character Winter. I wish I could articulate why (though the scene when she declares that she would never mock a farce again for having contrived circumstances as she lets her superior officer think that she is a man pretending to be a woman rather than letting him know that she really is a man is awesome).

Reading: And I'm into book three, The Price of Valour. Still loving Winter, mostly enjoying the book. Based on the foreword, I fear that there are two more books in the series that are not released yet.

Next: Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge released book five of the revised Exordium series (the final book). I read the original versions of the books a while ago (I have vague memories of it reading them in the bed corner of my studio apartment), but I've been holding off on reading the revised books until I could read them all in one go. So fun space opera next!