{"id":4474,"date":"2023-11-15T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:00:04","slug":"a-book-and-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/a-book-and-a-project\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book and a Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Please admire the cowl I knitted. Isn’t it pretty? I am quite happy with it. It was a very easy pattern but it is the first thing I have made that doesn’t have a bunch of egregious mistakes in it. If you see any please don’t tell me. I am now working on a hat with cabling. My personal knitting consultant (one of my co-workers) showed me how to do cables during a break in a day-long boring work meeting. After that, I would like to try simple colorwork. Knitting is a bit addictive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is one of my favorites of the British Library Crime Classic volumes of short stories. I tend to have mixed feelings about short stories and that is especially true when they are mysteries. I don’t always feel that the short story format lends itself to the development and then resolution of a mystery. However, I felt many, if not all of these, were very well done. There are stories by some very well-known names such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Christiana Brand. All the stories have some connection to the world of the theater. That leads to a lovely mix of impersonations, on-stage deaths that become a little too real, and overwrought playwrights to mention just a few scenarios. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have already pulled another volume of Crime Classic short stories off my shelves. I’ll be reading Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales <\/em>later today. I’ll report back. And I’ll show my latest knitting project too. Why else would I have a blog?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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