Like most of you, I have a lot of time on my hands when I’m not actually at work. Like most of you (I suspect), I don’t have a lot of brain bandwidth for anything particularly complicated or challenging. I don’t want anything that will take up too much space in my brain, and I definitely don’t want projects that will require too much intellectual capacity.
So I finished the last book I was reading (The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich–great book), and was rummaging around for a new fiction read.
I came up with this.
Right. That set has been on my book shelves for years, and I will eventually get around to reading it. But not now. I read a bit of the first volume, and put it quietly back on the shelf, then had a good laugh.
I chose the first of a new to me crime series, Michael Connelly’s The Black Echo. It’s perfect. Somewhat mindless, but not too much so. There is a murder within the first few pages, then the story spools out until I suppose Harry Bosch figures out who killed the guy. There are dozens more in the series, so I can just keep reading when I’m done.
I also don’t have much bandwidth for complex knitting. The lace has been neglected for weeks. Here are the current projects.
Two socks, both plain vanilla stocking stitch, a garter stitch Hitchhiker, and a garter stitch mitered square blanket. And a peek at the mystery white project, also currently in a garter stitch mode.
That should do it.
How have you never read Michael Connelly? He cannot write books fast enough for me…one of my absolute favorites. (And now there’s the Bosch series on Amazon.)
I’m so loving your mitered square blanket!
And yes.. I agree, a good murder mystery is just the thing for now. I’ve been listening on audible to some Sandra brown books. They’re excellent
the Harry Bosch series is good. I am sure that your public library has the whole series in eBook whenever you get beyond what you have on your own shelf. I am pretty much limiting myself to mindless knitting (hello garter stitch!) and a lot of cross stitch.
I’m actually jealous of you because you get to read Harry Bosch for the first time! I have read some of them several times. I used to live in LA and when I need a big dose of homesickness I re-read Harry.
Yes – that about sums it up! Nothing too complicated. Just busy work. Love your mitered square blanket. I’ve got one on the needles, too. It’s a good busy project, takes forever to knit, and uses up all that pesky leftover fingering weight yarn. Hang in there! Xx
If you end up liking the Bosch books, you might like John Sandford’s also. The Prey series as well as the Virgil Flowers series are top notch.
Second that recommendation for John Sandford books. They are the most intelligent police procedurals I have read. Plus, there are 30 (30!) books in the Prey/Lucas Davenport series, 12 in the Virgil Flowers series, and 13 others (of varying quality).