Hello friends!

January passed in a blink!

I did a lot of thinking about my book blanket last month and I finally settled on my blocks and have started to crochet. I did in the end choose to go with the original colours of the blocks and chose yarn colours that had a good contrast so that the colours would not be too similar.

My online version of the blanket looks like this at the moment (the numbers represent in which order they have been placed, and yes it starts with two):

My reading is a bit affected by this blanket. I try to mix up my reading to not get too many of the same time span in a row, and I am more selective in which books I pick up (and put down) knowing that they will be represented in the blanket. But, in the end I am a mood reader so that will always be what is deciding what I pick up next. This week I have one purple and one yellow coming up and then we will see what is coming.

I have started to read the thickest book in my unread collection: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. It is over 800 pages so it is a big one! In the beginning there was a lot of world building and information so it was hard to know what would be important to remember. I think I am past that point now and things are going to take off. I have really enjoyed reading it so far!

I met up with my university book circle last week to discuss Färskt vatten till blommorna (Changer l’eau des fleurs / Fresh Water for Flowes) by Valérie Perrin. We were a bit divided in our opinions so it was an interesting discussion! For my part, I can understand why it has gotten the hype its gotten but it was not a book for me.

This Thursday we are going to discuss Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King at work. It is also a thick book (over 700 pages) so it has taken us quite some weeks to read it together. It will be interesting to hear everyone’s final thoughts.

What are you reading this week?