[trystan830]

updated my lists... i've read 22 books so far. goodreads says I'm now 8 books ahead of schedule to meet my goal of (at least) 49 books.

[trystan830]

updated my list again. i'm up t #25, and I'm more than half way through. I'm off to the library tomorrow to get two, maybe three, books. i have a book in transit - The Fae Keeper (sequel to The Witch King) - that might be there tomorrow too. o_O

[trystan830]

it's been a minute, and i've updated my list. I'm reading book #30 for the year! yay! :D

[Kaderin Triste]

Have not been updating my list here...I'll have to go through goodreads and get that updated soon...but I am at 26/50 books down on the reading challenge for the library, so probably closer to 40 books total read.

[trystan830]

it's okay, i have to update my list. I'm up to reading #38. last year i read 48, so i'm getting there.

[Kaderin Triste]

Nice! That's pretty good progress!

I'm currently at 45 books total, but probably 10-ish of them were graphic novels, so I could read several in a day.

Gonna try to finish a couple in the next week before the Ravellenic games start since I decided to actually get active on Ravelry again and participate this year.

[trystan830]

thanks!

nothing wrong with graphic novels, a few (4?) years ago i (re?)read all of Sandman, which are, erm, collected trade paperbacks- each book collects 8-12 issues of the Sandman comic.

yay for the Ravellenic games! i've been part of Team Crochet Shoulder Wrappers since 2016,so says the graphics i put on my profile page

[Kaderin Triste]

I like graphic novels because they're super quick reads.

Yeah...I meant to do the Ravellenics like...7+ years ago when I was last attempting to be active on Rav., but it never happened. I'm not attempting very much: a Loom-A-Long scarf for the WIP event (because it starts at midnight), and a short pair of dragon scales fingerless gloves mainly. And if the eyes arrive in time and I think I can manage it, a mothman plushie.

[trystan830]

ooh that sounds cool!
i have a pair of socks to make, maybe. a Pomni plushie for my nephew (reminds me, i have to see if i have yellow felt). and maybe something for the WIPs Wrestling. we'll see what i have in-progress....

[Kaderin Triste]

Was a little nervous about the mystery loom-a-long project but, assuming the second half is basically the same as the first but decreasing the side we increased, it should be a pretty easy craft.

[trystan830]

sounds like a plan!

I'm away for a few days, and did I bring my book? of course not...
To be fair, it is a rather long book, and I probably wouldn't get more than 3 pages read anyway XD

[Kaderin Triste]

Oh nooo! But...but what if you would have been able to get a lot of reading done?!?
xD

[trystan830]

nah, it was fine. I wouldn't have gotten any reading done XD

[Kaderin Triste]

Ugh, debating if I want to frog and restart on my dragon gloves for the Ravellenics because I realized I might be a little short on scales (I ordered more, but not sure if they'll arrive on time), so since it was a mix of assorted metallics, I threw in my extra frost (sort of a frosty light silver) scales...but I was already about 1/3 done with the first glove so this might throw off the color balance and might be odd that it doesn't appear in the first part of the glove? Idk. I hate frogging and I don't have a lot of free time to work on Ravellenics stuff tbh...
Should I restart anyway?

[trystan830]

i probably wouldn't.
but i'll be joining the games late because I'm still working on this cross stitch for my older daughter's birthday. it's at the end of august, but hubby is going back across the state at the beginning of the month, so i want to try to have it done by then.

[Kaderin Triste]

Lol, yeah I didn't. I did think it through though and took the frost scales back out when I started on the second glove (and will re-add them at a certain point) so they'll have a similar subtle gradient and it will look intentional...