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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - the one with no title

Seriously, I published this without a title and had to come back and edit it!

The  reading has been rather all over the place. After finishing A Tidy Ending which was a five star read I started the oldest book on my Kindle - The Paris Model. It was unreadably bad. It had a twelve year old who sounded like she was 30, it telegraphed it's punches and there was something about the writing that was just bad. 

Then I read The Pavilion in the Clouds by Alexander McCAll Smith. I read lots of his work when I was younger, and I think I picked this one up on a Kindle sale. it was not very good. The writing was quite stilted and the plot was odd. The first 80 percent of the book is set in (the then) Ceylon, following a 9 year old - Bella-  and her governess and her two talking dolls and some drama between the father, the mother and the governess. Then the book skips ten years and and wraps it all up. The problem is I never cared. it just all seem so stilted and inconsequential. Particularly since both the mother and Bella spend a lot of time telling the reader how they they think colonialism might be wrong. It just didn't feel authentic. And the book is not particularly interesting. 

Then I started what I thought was going to be a Phyrne Fisher novel The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions, but was actually a series of short stories (from NetGalley). Which is fine, but I wasn't in the mood for short stories, I wanted a good, chunky novel. So I started Still Life, because I love reading the books everyone is talking about.  It's pretty good, but not the best book ever. great cover.

In the background I am reading The shortest history of war, which is exactly as it say on the cover! It's also from NetGalley and is not Kindle compatible, so I'm only reading it at home. It's really interesting - it's not the history of a specific war, but a history of war in general.

Whew, what a lot of reading! Luckily the knitting chat will be short. I'm (finally) up to the toe of Kris' sock. I have no idea how it took two weeks, but it's a pretty cute sock, so it's all good.

And that's what I'm knitting and reading right now. in reading and knitting. 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. Mark Baker23 May, 2022

    Sorry your reading has been so inconsistent in quality. And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who occasionally lets something slip through without a title.

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  2. Harvee24 May, 2022

    I know about reading all over the place. I have ebooks plus library books, plus books from the mail. Good luck with it.

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  3. Kathy Martin24 May, 2022

    Some reading weeks are like that. I'm getting quite ruthless about my reading. If it doesn't catch my attention fast, I quit reading it. I did read the Greenwood one but would have preferred another novel rather than short stories. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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