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Tell me more about this book blanket? I'm Fascinated
Omg yay!! Okay so I'm knitting two rows per book that I finish in 2024, and each book rows will be a different color based on the genre it is
So here are the books I've read so far. Everything that's in bold is what I've knitted, and the last book on the list is what I'm currently reading but haven't finished yet. So I've knitted everything before Fifty Feet Down, and read everything up to Annie on My Mind, but I'm currently like thirty percent through it.
I'm choosing colors as I finish genres, and I'm trying to do it only with yarn I have (cuz yarn is expensive and I have a lot of yarn. The reason I have a lot of yarn suitable for a blanket is because I took all of this yarn from a blanket I started knitting four years ago and never finished. Like I finished frogging that blanket yesterday and made it into cakes on my new yarn winder!!) I didn't really try to make the colors fit the genres. I just own a lot of navy yarn and knew I'd read a lot of LGBTQ books, and I own a lot of black and know I'll read a lot of horror books. Then for dystopian I just chose a yarn color that I had available, same with mystery.
Here's how it's going so far! You can see the four navy rows for the two LGBTQ books i read, the two purple for the one dystopian book (which is also very good, I highly recommend Debate Kids at the End of the World and that author in general, Alex Nonymous) and then a chunk of black because I read four I. S. Belle books in a row (you can also see all of the ends I didn't weave in, which I'm going to hate myself for when I finish the blanket)
"But Austyn, what if the book is more than one genre?" I'm so glad you asked! Most of these books could be considered more than one genre. Fifty Feet Down is a mystery, but also a romance. So I just consider what genre I believe is more integral to the story, if that makes sense. Fifty Feet Down could be relatively the same if the main characters were just friends, but the story would be vastly different if it wasn't a mystery. Therefore, it gets the mystery color instead of romance. Same with all of the I. S. Belle books. There's romance in them, but if you took out the romance it would still be pretty similar, but if you took out the horror it would be an incredibly different story.
So that's my 2024 book blanket!
#im so excited about this#its so fun#i read on the subway. at work. before bed. in the morning after waking up#i get so excited to knit new rows#and buy new books#buying new books is like a little gift for me#i put my entire tbr on an online spinny wheel so if i dont know what i want to read next i can spin the wheel and itll tell me#but sometimes im craving a specific book and ill just read that next#right now i have classics such as: stone butch blues. the perks of being a wallflower. playground. manhunt.#the second ari and dante book that ive been meaning to read for months#because i pre ordered that book and ive owned it since the day it came out. and this summer i reread the first one#so that i would know whats going on in the second one. but i haven't read the second one yet#i have a long ass tbr and i swear every day i add more#but i have a whole lifetime. and a whole year. to read them.#im gonna go knit the rows for fifty feet down now (an incredible book) and then probs read some more annie on my mind#have a great night everyone!!
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