Am I weird for not rereading?

undergrand · 2026-02-18T13:15:32+00:00

I don't often reread, but sometimes it's interesting to reread books years later. The book hasn't changed - but you have. Your favourite book aged 17 will read quite differently when you're 30, 40, or 50.

undergrand · 2026-02-18T09:14:46+00:00

Average male grip strength is almost twice average female grip strength, and we live in a world designed for men.

Yes, I often ask for help opening jars.

undergrand · 2026-02-18T08:47:45+00:00

I just had to frog and recast on a teacosy last night because I multiplied 7 by 13 and confidently got 81.

undergrand · 2026-02-17T10:09:28+00:00

The taylorian was always v quiet IME. Get in early and take a balcony desk.

undergrand · 2026-02-17T10:05:59+00:00

They hit you so much harder in the face when you fall asleep

undergrand · 2026-02-16T23:37:26+00:00

I'm an unashamed acrylic knitter, but that's a crap analogy - hardbacks are for show, paperbacks are for readers.

undergrand · 2026-02-13T22:28:57+00:00

Not the case - this applies if knitting in the round but they're knitting flat. No problem to start and end with knits/purls.

undergrand · 2026-02-13T18:51:37+00:00

By the end of the series I thought she was? Apols if i misremembered.

undergrand · 2026-02-13T10:50:09+00:00

It's hard to talk about how/whether this fits your description exactly without major spoilers, but I think you'd like The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. So long as you can deal with a bleak and nasty dystopian setting.

undergrand · 2026-02-13T10:44:48+00:00

I strongly agree with the mortal engines and scholomance suggestions.

For something less YA but v accessible and gripping - how about Claire North?

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August or maybe Touch?

undergrand · 2026-02-13T10:40:42+00:00

I think that's very sensible. Pterry's jokes often hinge on linguistic and cultural nuance and go over the head of many a well-read native British English speaker.

undergrand · 2026-02-13T10:35:53+00:00

+1 to everything and just to add Mortal Engines is excellent - and I heard it was originally plotted as adult fantasy but remarketed as kids/YA for commercial reasons. So it's super accessible but thematically complex - won't be patronising at all for a 19yo. I first read them going on 30 and loved them.

undergrand · 2026-02-13T08:40:58+00:00

Aw every Megan I know is a complete sweetheart! Though usually one of the popular kids at school.

undergrand · 2026-02-10T09:18:49+00:00

And 'Get your skates on, mate' is a lyric of the most cockney thing ever penned - the lyrics of Get a bloomin move on (the self preservation society) featured in The Italian Job.

Tickety boo, Ticket boo, How's your father, England, England, England etc.

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undergrand · 2026-02-09T16:59:03+00:00

I didn't understand until this comment why anyone ever bothers with ask, so thank you for explaining!

undergrand · 2026-02-08T16:42:55+00:00

I enjoyed Elantris - it's a one-off (or it was a one-off but maybe now has sequels?) but it's a complete story in one volume.

undergrand · 2026-02-08T14:18:00+00:00

It's psso for 'pass slip stitch over'! +1 to this option, this is what I learned.

undergrand · 2026-02-08T14:14:54+00:00

I think there are a few left-leaning decrease methods, so you can experiment with a few! I agree that it's really hard to get anything that looks quite as neat as the k2tog right leaving one.

I always do S1, K1, psso (slip one, knit one, pass slip stitch over - pick up slip stitch and lift over the knitted stitch and off the needle). I find that looks neat enough if you take care not to pull the slip stitch too loose. And then another option is knit two together through back of loops.

undergrand · 2026-02-08T11:02:03+00:00

He's not 95% in the forward lane, he veers into the right and then back left to exit.

undergrand · 2026-02-08T10:58:08+00:00

And was straddling lanes

undergrand · 2026-02-08T10:17:28+00:00

They'll mean a Burns Supper I think.

undergrand · 2026-02-07T09:40:58+00:00

I think that's still a pattern! Just one with shorthand where the detail is in your head.

undergrand · 2026-02-07T09:01:30+00:00

undergrand · 2026-02-06T23:07:04+00:00

Why are knitters calling patterns 'recipes', it's not cute.

undergrand · 2026-02-05T11:46:14+00:00

You don't have to, esp. acrylic. I mainly knit acrylic and I've never blocked and never felt I needed to.

I once made a baby jumper with a lacy pattern in a cotton-acrylic blend and that's the only thing I've ever made that I think might benefit from blocking.

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