Yarn Along

I really haven’t been reading for my own amusement lately.  It’s been much too busy for that!  The big kids and I have still been reading through The Chronicles of Narnia after the little kids are in bed every night.  We’re about half way through The Horse and His Boy right now.  We finished The Magician’s Nephew not that long ago.  I’ll admit, before we started reading all this through, the only book in the series I had read was the famous The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

I have to say, The Magician’s Nephew totally blew me away.  I’m not exaggerating when I say I cried during the description of the creation of Narnia.  It was so beautiful I couldn’t help it.  If you have never read The Magician’s Nephew you must now.  As in, today.  (Note to Mom: this would be a good book for you to read after your foot surgery.)  It was yet another book where I ended up being the one crying, and one of the kids started rubbing my back and saying, “It’s okay, Mommy.  It’s just a story.”  I do get a little emotional reading, I guess.  It’s not a sad story, but I will often tear up seeing a sunrise or sunset, and hearing the description of the very first sunrise in a world, with the stars and the land and the song, of course, the LION…it was overwhelmingly beautiful.

The book we’re currently on, The Horse and His Boy is very imaginative as well, but I must admit I’m tripping over the fancy language of the Calorman royalty.  I’m trying really hard to make the words flow so they make sense, and I don’t appear stupid.  The kids seem to get it.  I’m not even sure all those words are real words.  Probably.  It’s all about context, really.  Actually it’s a really good story as well, and I am constantly tempted to read ahead after Silje and David go to bed.  So far I’ve resisted, but I know I cannot resist forever.  It wouldn’t be the first time.

Because of my sewing itch, my knitting has suffered, but I’ve still managed an hour here and there to devote to this cardigan.  I broke into the next skein, and the body of the cardigan should be done by the end of this week easily.  That is, if I can move after sanding down the kitchen cabinets.  Maybe not.

Linking up with Ginny’s Yarn Along.