Ramblings About Yarn

I learned how to knit over the past week, and I've been trying to finish a Turkish Stitch scarf. The problem is, I have an easy time messing up the Turkish Stitch, causing me to have to undo the entire thing (because I haven't figured out how to undo just a few stitches). Also, I don't think the yarn I have is long enough...oh well.

But it's been a long time since I've done any arts and crafts. I'm pretty good with my hands--I used to make things out of gimp and floss all the time when I was a kid, so I'm enjoying knitting, apart from the fact that I still mess up a lot. I'm thinking to get more yarn so I can make more scarves. I usually never buy scarves, even though I like them, so now I have some sort of obsession with making them myself, haha.

List summary:
- Currently working on Turkish Stitch scarf



- Hope to knit:

1. Rib stitch scarf


2. Seafoam stitch scarf


3. Feather and Fan scarf

Impressions about The Son of Neptune so far

Read to about halfway through the book. Unless I suddenly get a catastrophic dump of schoolwork next week, I'll finish the book next Friday. (But sadly, my local bookstore doesn't have Goliath! Blasphemy!)

Non-spoilery impressions:

- The pacing is a lot slower in The Son of Neptune than in The Lost Hero. I'm trying to decide whether it's because each POV character has 4 consecutive chapters rather than 2, or whether it's because there are extensive flashbacks early on in the book, but I'm not sure. I mean, it takes over 200 pages for the three main characters to go on their quest.
- So far, Frank is my favorite character. I really like his background, and his mom sounded really awesome, totally unlike the traditional Asian American (or Asian Canadian?) stereotypes.
- The tone of the book somehow feels more somber than in The Lost Hero. I don't know whether it's because it's the Roman camp, which is stricter than Camp Halfblood; whether it's due to the lack of Leo Amazing Valdez; or whether it's because Percy seems to have largely lost his sense of humor (which is a bummer).
- The beauty of The Lost Hero was that each POV character had a distinct voice and personality. (Again, Leo totally stole the show.) But in The Son of Neptune, the three POV characters don't feel distinct from each other. Several times I forgot whose POV I was reading from, which I don't believe happened while I was reading The Lost Hero.
- I'm not sure I like how the flashbacks are so extensive and so front-loaded in TSoN. Hazel's in particular. While they are extremely descriptive and vivid, they also really slow down the action.
- Camp Jupiter is an interesting antithesis to Camp Halfblood.

Spoilery impressions:

( Spoilers past the cut. Well, for the first half of the book, anyway )