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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - Welcome to February

This Wednesday I have nothing on my needles at all!

I'm between knits. I just finished some charity knits yesterday, to clear my needles for the Find Your Fade knit-a-long starting today! I'm casting on tonight and am very excited.

I'm listening to a review audio book - Hillbilly Queer by J.R Jamison. It's a memoir of someone (the "queer") in the title, who goes on a road trip with his father (the "hillbilly"). It's got some really interesting stories, particularity when J.R. is talking about other peoples' story. He himself seems whiny, judgemental and trying to be cute, but just coming across as judgemental. He's convinced everyone is (literally) trying to kill him. In his head no-one is kind.  I think he needed therapy, not to write a book. And one small thing that keeps on bugging me is he continuously refers to his "brown leather flip flops, 4 inch inseam shorts and leather bag" as if that makes him some sort of gay flag. So I'm having very mixed feelings.

I read  a review copy of The Promise of a Normal Life,  by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, which I didn't love. The full review is here. 

After two books that were frustratingly close to being very good, it's a relief to read You be Mother by Meg Mason. It's a well written, logically constructed, character driven, delight of a novel. 

And that's my week 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. Jane02 February, 2023

    Have fun with the Find your Fade. A new project is always exciting.

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  2. Kathy Martin07 February, 2023

    Interesting assortment of books. I hate when books have whiny characters and I've often thought that therapy would be a better first choice than writing a book. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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