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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - the one with the good audiobook (and Shawlography spoilers)

It's a good week for audio-books. I'm still listening to Nomadland, and still enjoying it. It's the perfect book to listen to while I'm working. I'm also listening to False Witness by Karen Slaughter. She's an author I've heard of a lot and had never read. I follow her on Instagram and she mainly posts cat memes. This book is gritty and grim and I cannot put it down.

In eye-reading I DNFd a book called Adulting (review here, I really disliked this book) and am reading another book in the Object Lessons series, courtesy of NetGalley. This one is nominally about stickers, but is actually a muddled memoir, and a history of Charlottesville. It's a good read.  And the cover is equisite.

I'm mainly knitting Shawlography. There is a LOT of knitting this week. I'll get it finished before the next clue but it's intense. Also, I don't know if I like it. There is a lot going on. Texture and colour and holes and bumps. I'm glad the shape is changing, because I didn't want another half circle shawl - like last year's Slipstravaganza, which I love, but I'm hoping this will be very different.

I'm still practicing my embroidery. I got to satin stitch the other day, and I need to do it better! It's fun, but since the only time I dedicate to it is that little bit between logging off from work and whatever comes next it's slow going.

And that's my week in reading, knitting and embroidery. 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 out26 October, 2021

    Slaughter is very gritty, apt given her name ;)
    Love the Pretty colours in the shawl

    Wishing you a great reading week

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  2. Penelope @ The Reading Devil26 October, 2021

    Wow! I think the embroidery is coming along great! I love the detail - I could never hope to have hands steady enough to do something so intricate! I hope you enjoy your current read and have a great week :)

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  3. Kathy Martin26 October, 2021

    Both your knitting and embroidery look great. I don't think I've ever read anything by Karen Slaughter. I hope you like it. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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