Not much time for reading. . .

I have been rather busy lately -- especially since school started (I homeschool).  But I have found a little time to read here and there.  I recently finished both Eragon and Ireland: A Novel.  Both good books. 

Now I am starting this book. . .

Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty.  This won the 2004 Man Booker Prize, which is a good sign as far as I'm concerned.  Other Man Booker winners that I have enjoyed include Yann Martel's Life of Pi and Ian McEwan's Amsterdam.

In other news, I've continued my knitting on Ingeborg and even managed to knit a few rows at my knitting guild meeting Monday night.  (I didn't think I'd be able to follow the pattern and the conversation at the same time, so I was surprised that I was able to do this!)

And in Knitting Blogs Web Ring news, I've shut the ring down to new members until after the first of the year.  Just too much going on with the holidays approaching!

-~-~-~-~UPDATE -~-~-~-~

Pete just informed me that the winner of the Man Booker 2005 Prize for Fiction was just announced yesterday! The winner is. . . .

John Banville's The Sea.

Comments

[gaile]

I can't wait to hear what you think of line of beauty. I tried, oh i tried, so hard to read it but I just couldn't care about the characters.