So Many Books....

...So Little Time!

Actually methinks that although there doesn't seem to be much time for reading right now, there soon will be. Snow flurries are in the forecast for next week! Seems that winter is indeed coming... and it is time to prepare.  For me, that means I need to get busy gathering projects and amusements to keep me sane through those long lonely months. 

The easiest place to start is books. Easy because I already have an an extensive collection piling up in the corner of my living room -  a pile that never seems to go down but keeps going up.. Yesterday I finished Undersong by Kathleen Winter - a fictionalized biography of Dorothy Wordsworth which was most interesting...and quite different..enjoyed it. 

So today was pick-a-new-book day. Always fun choosing from the pile....but there is a pecking order...

First pick is Red Clocks because it is the next book club selection and has to have priority. 

Next in line will be the one by Jane Gardam, because it is the second book in what I had not realized was a trilogy, and I need to read it while the first ( Old Filth) is still fresh in my memory!  And ...it is a library book. 

The third is Entangled Life  about fungi - of which I know nothing but would like to know more. Last night I watched Fantastic Fungi - a Netflix documentary hoping it would help prepare me for reading the book - because it does look rather intimidating - all that small print and not many photos!  Hmmmm. 

Then there is Joyful  which says it will show me how everyday things can bring joy to my life. One can always use more joy in one's life, right?  - especially as the snow flies! I will be reading it in tandem with the others though as it is also a library book..and with library books come deadlines. 

Anyway, finding reading material this winter will not be an issue, but I need variety. I am making progress on my blue quilt, so that will keep me busy sewing over the winter months and if I manage to finish it, I have lots more fabric to use up!  I have also started foraging in my craft room for possible paper, painting and/or bookbinding projects ...and of course there is knitting - lots of project possibilities there - including a couple of new patterns sent to me from a very kind blipper! 

I am not looking forward to the long winter but if I am prepared, I will get through it ...and maybe, just maybe, by spring, COVID will have settled down and I can travel again...Hope springs eternal....