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Unravelled Wednesday and What are You Reading Monday - Coming to the ends

I try really hard to come up with punny titles, and while it is true that I am at the end of two knitting project I'm only halfway through my current book. I'm reading The Other Side of Beautiful by Kim Lock.

It's a NetGalley review book, and is quite delightful. It tells the story of Mercy, a doctor who hasn't left her house for two years because of something that happened. When her house burns down, she ends up heading north in a clapped out old van, with nothing but her dog and her anxiety for company. We slowly start to learn what it was that traumatised her. It sounds heavy, when described like that, but it reads more like a rom-com and I'm definitly enjoying. Additionally, as all the borders have slammed shut again around here, it is delightful reading a book that starts in Adelaide and makes its way up the Sturt Highway north, always north.

I have finished the knitting portion of  Bee's Populux:

I just need to do the ends and the buttons. I'm seeing her on Saturday, so I'll be able to get her to try it on, and see if it actually fits! So much suspense.

In the meantime, I've been knitting a pair of mitts for Elise. It's some yarn that was her mother's,  and came to me when I blocked a lace crotchet tablecloth - Elise said "you may as well keep the yarn, I won't use it". So I'm making these mitts, and I'll probably have left over for a matching hat as well. 

To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as Sharondoubleknit and on GoodReads as Sharondblk.

I'm joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday and Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading.  Thanks Kat and Kat for hosting these linkups.  


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  1. shelleyrae @ book'd out05 July, 2021

    I’m reading The Other Sude of Beautiful this week too :)

    Wishing you a great reading week

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  2. Laurel-Rain Snow05 July, 2021

    The Other Side of Beautiful looks good! Lovely needlework! Here are my WEEKLY UPDATES

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  3. RAnn06 July, 2021

    That pink is so pretty!

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  4. Kathy Martin06 July, 2021

    Great color for your knitting project. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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