Monday, June 13, 2011
Jun. 13th, 2011 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyToday was a sewing machine adventure day. Mama and I were going to go to a dry cleaning store where there is a sewing machine to get the backing done on the baby blanket. But she wondered if maybe anyone around here had a sewing machine because she could do it herself then. I texted Laura, my neighbor, “Random Question. Do you by any chance have a sewing machine?” and a few minutes later she replied “ Yes, It’s at home. David bought it. Ask him.” So her husband just recently bought a sewing machine for himself. It was still mostly in the box because he hasn’t set it up yet but he let us borrow it and figure it out. I’ll show him how to thread it later as a thank you. So we set it up in the kitchen and it took a bit of time to figure out the diagrams. Now, I haven’t touched a sewing machine in 20 years (we had home ed type class in school when I was 10 to 12) and while Mama is good on it, it has been a while for her. This machine was electronic too, you can set up all kinds of patterns – it is very cool. So after some trial and error and figuring out what the pictures in the instructions really pointed at (it really felt like a puzzle), I am now an expert at bobbin it and putting the top thread in and everything. Mama is the one who actually did the backing though. I don’t trust myself to actually sew a straight line. I’m decent at cross stitch, but I’m not that sure on the sewing machine. Still, I learned something new today.
I finished “Mockingjay” today. While the second book took me four days this one took me almost two weeks. It is not that I didn’t like it, I did, it just didn’t have the same urgency. This book is about war and propaganda and the role of media in war, which I found very effective. The last third was meant to mirror Hunger Games and it had more action and so I read it quicker. (I skimmed the book in the very beginning so that also contributed at not having the urgency to know what happened next. I still read for details but I knew the ending and where it was going.) But this book is really about the psychological for all the characters really. I’m actually glad that there are real consequences to everything Katniss had to go through: there were a lot of injuries and PTSD. She was in the hospital after every action sequence which got a bit silly. But it was a slightly different book than the first two and definitely more depressive. Poor Peeta here. I’m glad they ended up together at the end. Overall, I did like the “Hunger Games” trilogy quite a lot and I’m glad I finally got to them.
I have so many other books I want to and need to read. I think going to read the Arabian Nights, the Burton’s version I got from Kindle, very slowly and I need to finish ‘Lavinia.’
I also went to Amazon to poke around and so many classics are on Kindle for free (bless the public domain), so little time: “Paradise Lost”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “The War of the Worlds”, “Jane Eyre” and some Thomas Hardy all found their way into my Kindle. Don’t know when I will read them but I like having them. I’m restraining myself from just downloading all of Jane Austen.
I finished “Mockingjay” today. While the second book took me four days this one took me almost two weeks. It is not that I didn’t like it, I did, it just didn’t have the same urgency. This book is about war and propaganda and the role of media in war, which I found very effective. The last third was meant to mirror Hunger Games and it had more action and so I read it quicker. (I skimmed the book in the very beginning so that also contributed at not having the urgency to know what happened next. I still read for details but I knew the ending and where it was going.) But this book is really about the psychological for all the characters really. I’m actually glad that there are real consequences to everything Katniss had to go through: there were a lot of injuries and PTSD. She was in the hospital after every action sequence which got a bit silly. But it was a slightly different book than the first two and definitely more depressive. Poor Peeta here. I’m glad they ended up together at the end. Overall, I did like the “Hunger Games” trilogy quite a lot and I’m glad I finally got to them.
I have so many other books I want to and need to read. I think going to read the Arabian Nights, the Burton’s version I got from Kindle, very slowly and I need to finish ‘Lavinia.’
I also went to Amazon to poke around and so many classics are on Kindle for free (bless the public domain), so little time: “Paradise Lost”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “The War of the Worlds”, “Jane Eyre” and some Thomas Hardy all found their way into my Kindle. Don’t know when I will read them but I like having them. I’m restraining myself from just downloading all of Jane Austen.
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Date: 2011-06-15 05:35 pm (UTC)I don't have a Kindle, but I have the Kindle app for iPod and was thrilled to discover all the classics were free. Awesome!
Happy reading! :)
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Date: 2011-06-15 06:11 pm (UTC)All those classics! So little time!