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Slowly, slowly, I’m adding rows to the border of my shawl. It’s been a busy week, so most of my reading has been to my children: The Middle Moffat
This week we discussed Go Set a Watchman
If you are in the U.S. and you are interested, leave a comment, and I’ll randomly select someone by the end of the day to mail it to. I’ve randomly selected a winner. The book goes to Cindy in NC 🙂
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Oh! We are reading the Middle Moffatt too! I love reading it to them.
Oh, how fun! I’m waiting my turn at the library, but at last check there were 200-odd people in the line ahead of me!
Maybe I’m not too late! 🙂
I’d love to read it!
I have been so apprehensive to read that book, I read To Kill a Mockingbird hundreds of times growing up, it has always been a favorite. I am afraid that this book will change my thoughts on the first one, but maybe I will love it. Who knows 🙂 Beautiful shawl!
Would love to read it, Ginny! Thanks!
Oh wow! I’d love a chance to win and read this book! Thanks for your generosity!
thanks for the opportunity. My 3 teenage daughters and I would love to read it. Blessings!
Your shawl looks beautiful. It’s finally starting to cool off a bit here, and I’m feeling inspired to start knitting a shawl too! 🙂 I’d love to be the recipient of your book! Thank you!
Never one to pass up a good book! Thanks
Hannah
I have the book, haven’t read it yet, and a little nervous not hearing rave reviews about it. Better just get down to it and read the book. I just do not want to be disappointed, loved To Kill A Mockingbird!
Put my name for the book please. Thanks a lot for the idea. Love your yarns and knitting.
It’s wonderfully kind of you to send your book along to someone else. I hope the winner is willing to continue sharing the book. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have each person who reads the book sign it. Over time it would be a fascinating history of who had the book. Congrats on how well your dyed yarn sold.
Throw my name into the hat, please!
I love visiting your blog. Your photos are excellent and you are so creative! I’ve heard a lot of talk surrounding Lee’s new book. You were deliberately vague in your post! Did you like it?
Thank you! I liked it, but didn’t love it. Made for some good discussion though.
I’ve been wanting to try that book!
Love your blog! I have 5 children, love to read, and love to crochet. We don’t have goats, but do have 2 dogs, a cat, a rabbit, a hedgehog (very cute, but not so cuddly!) and 100 head of cows. Thanks for the opportunity of winning Go Set a Watchman!
I am anxious to read this book and see what all the fuss is about. I have several friends I could also pass it on to. I love seeing how many “reads” I can get out of a book by sharing it. I just purchased your Aibhie’s Hat pattern and am looking forward to starting it as a “warm up” to Sunday Sweater.
Cindy in NC
I love your blog and read it daily. Would be grand to receive the book.
Beautiful color you picked for your shawl. Go set a watchman has been on my short list.
I enjoy reading your blog with all the activity going on with your family and farm. My children raise fiber goats and adore the baby bucks. I love seeing what you are knitting. I only seem to get a chance to knit baby hats as gifts and a few hats for my children. Maybe someday I will get around to knitting a shawl or sweater.
That’s very kind of you!
I would very much like to read that book. Atticus has always been a big fictional hero of mine and I want to learn for myself if this book un-does him as a hero or if it just makes him more nuanced.
I would love to have a copy of this book! I’ve heard mixed reviews but I’d like to read it for myself. 🙂 Was hoping to score some of your awesome new yarn but it was all gone when I got there! 🙂 Congrats!
I would love a copy of that book!
I would just love that book! Our family loved reading Paddle-to-the-Sea. Do you read while you knit? That would be amazing!
I would love to get a copy of the book! Thanks for sharing a bit of your life with us!
Love that shawl; such a nice pattern. Would love to read Go Set a Watchman…as everyone said, I’ve heard mixed reviews which made me very curious (PS. I’m also getting a graduate degree in English at the moment, whoohoo!).
I enjoy your blog and reading about your family and your knitting projects. It is very sweet of you to pass the book along.
I would love to read this book and then pass it on also. Thank-you.
I’d love to be the recipient of your copy of “Go Set a Watchman.” I’m a big fan of passing books along in this fashion so if I’m chosen I’ll make sure to send it along on another journey!
I would love to read the book and then pass it on to someone else to read.
Please enter me for the book drawing. Can’t wait to see your finished shawl.
Ohh, I’d love to win that one. Keep meaning to pick it up!
I would like the book!
I was planning to buy this book. Thank you so much for the chance to win it, instead!
If the author didn’t want to publish it, why would I want to read it? I LOVE Paddle to the Sea.
This was the first book that Harper Lee wrote. Her publisher was interested in the flashbacks to Scout’s young life and asked Harper Lee if she could expand on those for a book. That’s when “To Kill a Mockingbird” was born. After the overwhelming (literally) success of TKAM, Lee became reclusive and was afraid of publishing another book (and how does an author top such an influential book?). The manuscript of “Go Set a Watchman” was discovered among her things and she gave permission to have it published. It’s not as great a book as TKAM and one wonders if it could have been better if she had rewritten and edited it in light of TKAM, but it’s still a good read. There are many books that don’t get published because of various circumstances and reasons. Beatrix Potter was rejected many times before she found a publisher willing to gamble on her. Hard to believe, but Tolkien’s works were not popular in his day. There are many books out there that never should have seen the light of day – such as 50 Shades of Grey or the Twilight series – and many good authors who because of lack of money or public interest can’t get their writing into print through a major publisher. I’ve found some great gems among the self-publishing crowd recently. So you never know.
Each week I enjoy seeing your progress on knitted goods (or that current devotion to dyeing!) and I tell myself each week to just pick up those needles already. Well this was my week. Two hats! Yay me.
I’ll take that copy of Go Set A Watchman off your hands…thanks 🙂
Paddle to the Sea is a wonderful book. When my daughter was little we read it and she colored a map as we went. It was a wonderful project that she enjoyed. I forget the small homeschooling company that put out the project but I could rummage around and look for it.
I would love to read it 🙂
so happy to be here…many thanks for hosting!!!!!
I do so want to read this, but is it worth reading? Will I just have angst after reading?? Thank you for sharing!
Ooh…I would love to read Go Set a Watchman. I’ve heard mixed reviews and am waiting to make up my own mind. Mockingbird is one of my favorite books of all time….although I didn’t figure that out till I re-read it as an adult. Thanks for passing it along.
Yes, count me in! I’d love to be on the Go Set a Watchman list!
I know what you mean when you say, “All discussed out.” That does happen.
Your shawl is still looking VERY pretty, Ginny.
I like the Moffats. Have you read aloud The Great Brain? They are fun family books. I loved them.
My first-grader just finished reading Paddle to the Sea. What a wonderful book.
My daughter and I are both looking forward to reading Go Set a Watchman (a friend of hers played Scout in a local production of To Kill a Mockingbird years ago and we’ve been fans of the book ever since).
I love the color of that shawl you’re working on! Also, would love to read Go Set a Watchman. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my all time favorite books (a family friend gave me a hardcover copy when I was 12. Loved it then, love it now). It would be interesting to read this book as well and see To Kill a Mockingbird’s evolution.
Paddle to the See is a favorite here as are all the Holling books.
I haven’t read “Go Set a Watchman’ and if you liked it then I
would love to have my name added, if you didn’t then no, but
thank you. 🙂
I’m so sorry I missed out on your yarn for sale! Beautiful colors, Ginny. About the book, I own a copy and am currently 2/3 of the way through…negative and positive reviews abound, so I’m plowing through to the end wishing I had a discussion group to talk about it with. I will say that I’m enjoying Ms. Lee’s descriptive writing…
Currently on my needles are far too many wee projects — all for baby showers except for my mobius which is not. 🙂
Oh I love the Paddle to the Sea book! I read that to my children ages ago!
Your shawl looks very soft and squishy too!
I cannot wait to see your shawl when it is finished, it looks so soft! I am not reading that book, I’ve heard too much negative comments to even crack it open and read it. (don’t pick me as a winner). My knitting is going pretty good. However I find myself wishing to start new projects! I need to finish a few that are on the needles before I fall down that slippery slope.