Spinning, Books

I've been trying to get some more spinning done than I usually do. I'm working on a BFL/silk blend (BFL being Bluefaced Leicester, pronounced Lester) that's really nice, soft, easy to spin. I already have one big fat skein done (two ply) and tonight finished filling one bobbin's worth for the next skein.

I've also been debating on what to read next. I finished a bio of Rita Hayworth last month. Boy, was she messed up. She was abused physically by her father, then mentally by 2 out of her 4 husbands. Orson Welles didn't hurt her, but he was too concerned with his career. And Ali Khan was too much of a playboy. Her last husband was 40s singer Dick Haymes, who was a drunk and a real jerk.

I have a bio of Lana Turner waiting for me, but I think I'll wait on that for now. I also have a couple of Star Trek paperbacks and the novel Show Boat (that the musical is taken from) that I haven't read yet. Ava Gardner was in Show Boat; I read her bio a couple of years ago. And I've been wanting to re-read the Harry Potter books. So I guess I say "eeny, meeny, miney, moe." I've been working on two coffee-table books - Hagia Sophia and The Tower of London, which I've also just finished up last week. I've found a lot of my books these last several years at the local annual library sales in the spring. Any that I don't want to keep get passed along to my sister or mother-in-law, or are donated back to the library.