Unravelled Wednesday - the one before Harry Potter

I'm writing this on Tuesday, because tomorrow we have tickets to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and I can't imagine that after 5 hours of theatre I'll have the time or energy to post. I am so excited to see this. we'd been umming and ahing, because it's very spendy. last week Elise won tickets in the Friday forty lottery, and saw it on Wednesday, and this week Leon won! So that's what we are doing tomorrow.

In knitting, it's still sOcktober, so I'm still knitting socks. I decided to end the month with a pair of shorties from left over Socks Yeah! I love that yarn, and I'm pretty happy with the first sock. So traditional - top down, heel flap and gusset, double point needles.

The reading isn't going as well. As promised I started The Messenger which is a NetGalley review book. I hated it from the second page. There is a lot of exposition, the main characters thoughts are very repetitive, it's written in a dual timeline, but we've only had about 5 pages in the modern timeline, the past timeline is written in present tense, the city of Venice feels like it is filtered through the tourist eyes of the author. Also there are endless descriptions of coffee. Mainly it reads like a first draft. I really hate giving poor reviews to review books, but that's just the way it is.

In cheerier news I'm listening to Help Me! a memoir by Marianne Power about choosing a new self help book every month for a year, and following its advice. Amusing and also insightful. As usual on a Wednesday (or Tuesday, or Thursday) I'm linking up with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday.

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