may/june reading challenge and knitting update

Traveling gives great allowance to read and to knit, but sadly I can not do both at the same time. See Middlemarch resting atop of my necessary bag at my feet? Of course, I took it along to the beach to read, but then I must say I also carried a couple of other books to read too, and those were successfully finished. Therefore, the May/June reading challenge is not quite accomplished yet, but almost! I should be done with it within the next week.
As far as my Swan Island Amethyst Sweater is concerned, I continue to knit around and around with this easy to follow pattern...stitch markers are the key. A very pleasant woolly summer knit wherever you may be.