Joining Kat and friends for Unraveled Wednesday.

Knitting.

The Big Red Blob was at a spot where I needed to do some math and measuring, which meant I couldn’t just pick it up when we sat down to watch TV. I had another pattern selected that would be small enough to be a carry-along project, but when I tried to grab the yarn — MC and CC — I couldn’t find the latter. So I grabbed some blue yarn and started another hat. That is the UFO mentioned above.

Reading.

Only I Can Fix It by by Carol Leonnig and  Philip Rucker. I am in the midst of this tome. The only thing I can say about it at this point has already been said widely: “[The atmosphere inside the White House] was worse than you ever imagined.” This is the eighth book I have read about t***p and/or the pandemic; any book about either subject written in the past year necessarily has a lot to say about the other subject. 4✭

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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker. What an amazing story! Nonfiction, this book tells the story of the Galvin family: twelve kids — ten boys and two girls — and six of the boys developed schizophrenia. It was like jungle/survival of the fittest in that house, a horrible place to grow up. Most of it is set in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when treatment of mental illness was not very developed. If you have any interest in mental illness, you will find this book fascinating 4✭

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The Nightmare by Lars Kepler. This is the second in the Joona Linna series; I believe there are five to date. Suitably intriguing plot, some really, really bad guys, and Joona, our hero. 3✭

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Listening.

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. Still listening. Two-thirds of the way through. Still liking it a lot. 4✭

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Watching.

The X Files, season nine. In one episode that we watched this week not only was Muldur not in it, neither was Scully except for a tiny moment.

Note on a previous post: those awesome arrangements of stones and shells I posted about on Sunday are the work of Instagrammer sculpttheworld.