I finished the sleeves of the Greek Pullover. I blocked them, even, using Lydia's trick (link is to her blog - for some reason, permalinks to everything I try lately have been messed up) of blocking the sleeves right on top of each other, so they will be the same size.

I also (at least temporarily) gave up on Gulliver's Travels. It was depressing me. Jonathan Swift - I mean, I knew he was a cynic and a satirist, but as I read the book, I'm all "Yeah, yeah, Jon, people are all stupid or avaricious or both and there's no good system of government or religion or anything. So what exactly do you suggest? We can't all transmutate into horses, and even if we did, we'd probably pull our human natures along with us..."

And I just don't need that right now.

So I started instead the first volume of "A Dance to the Music of Time." Now, I don't know anything about Anthony Powell and it yet may break bad on me, but right now I'm in the middle of his narrator's (Jenkins) retelling of his school days, and it's more enjoyable than the Swift is. It's also, it seems, a lot DENSER - description-wise, I mean- I had to go back and re-read passages to make sure I was understanding.

I thought of this book because the new Folio "It's time to re-up" flyer came. Every year I say I won't rejoin (you have to buy four books at one shot to do it, and their books range from about $30 to $80). But. They had published the other three volumes of the "Dance to the Music of Time" set...and I NEED those, you understand. I can't read the first one in a nice big hardback format with notes and pictures and then go to some mingy "Barnes and Noble publishing" paperback format that's all full of typos and cheap paper.

AND they are apparently reprinting the Moomintroll books in hardback format - they had Finn Family Moomintroll listed as coming out in December. Now, yes. I have paperback versions of all of these - in some cases, books I've had since I was a kid. But I really want a more "permanent" copy, and a nice hardback copy. So I ordered that too. (And a couple of other things...Folio has some unusually interesting offerings this fall).