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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - the one with new projects and new books

This week everything is new and everything is good. Maybe because I've got six days leave - starting and the end of the workday on Tuesday! On Thursday morning I'm heading up to Orange with my powerifting team. We're coming back on Sunday and then Monday is a public holiday.

The trip to Orange involves a nine-hour drive each way. I've cast on a scarf for Leon's Winter Set (2023). I'm using Kate Davies' Paper Caves pattern and so far it's delightful. I'll have to work out how to covert it into a hat and mitts, but I've got some ideas. It's pleasure to knit, interesting enough to want to keep knitting, but intuitive enough to knit on public.

I'm reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It was highly recommended by a number of participants in Unravelled Wednesday and it is, so far, a delightful read. I just want to sit and read and see what happens next. Lovely. 

I finished the audio book I was reading, Atomic Family. I hated it - the plot, the narrators, everything. I'm not sure what I'm going to listen to next, suggestions are welcome.

And that's my week in knitting and reading.  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 out13 March, 2023

    Good luck with your competition!
    I’m one of the few that wasn’t enamoured by Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

    Wishing you a great reading week

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  2. Kathy Martin14 March, 2023

    I enjoyed Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I'm glad you are liking it. The knitting looks great too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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  3. Laurie C14 March, 2023

    I loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow etc.! Too bad about Atomic Family. I'm listening to The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is an amazing family saga spanning generations of Black, Native American, and mixed-race families in the South, and tracing their history back through pre-Civil War and slavery. It's 30 hours long, though!

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  4. Laurie C14 March, 2023

    If you like Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, though, I would recommend The Chalk Artist by Allegra Goodman!

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