Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a great day like me :). I got all of my cleaning in the main rooms done before noon today so I have the entire afternoon free! What's a girl to do?
I'll tell you what. Be a geek! If you have read the post before the last one called 'My Reading Challenge' you will know that I am currently reading 'The Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follet. I love this book so so so much but sometimes the author's style gets a little too technical for my imagination. The entire book is centered around the building of a cathedral in Medieval England right before Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Ken Follet has done amazing character development and the feeling of the story draws you in completely until you don't want to put it down. However, I have a very hard time getting through the parts of the book that explain the building of the cathedral. If he hadn't been an author he would have been an architect. Almost two pages are dedicated to the designs and materials and drawings of this special place and when I read them, the words get mixed up in my head until I have to put it down and actually think about what I just read. I have not had a problem with reading comprehension since the third grade lol and this book, this amazing story makes me think. Totally new to me! Maybe that's why I like it so much.
On another note, same subject, being sucked into Medieval England gave me the idea to go and get wool yarn and knitting needles today. One of the main characters in the book whose name is Aliena, is a wool merchant who one day is unable to sell her regular pelts and has to find another way to make a profit from them. So she decides to hire some women to weave it for her into cloth and if I remember right (haven't got this far yet) she actually creates a beautiful cloth that becomes very popular throughout the country. So after I finished cleaning today, I went to JoAnn Fabrics and bought some knitting needles and 100% wool yarn to knit something :).
See what I mean about being a geek? Not only do I read the book but I take on a project while reading it which is similar to what the character in the book is doing. Knitting might be different from weaving and I would love to read the history of cloth-making, but I'll just stick to what I have now!
On that note, I wish you all a very fond farewell (bet you can't guess what line that was!)
I might post my horrendous work on here once I've finished :)
