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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - another one with the mini-skein madness

I've pretty much finished the child's jumper I was knitting out of left over mini-skeins for charity, I just have to block it. I'm pretty happy with it, the Go Get 'Em Tiger pattern is such a simple, effective top down round yoke, and I used 250 grams of yarn that had no destiny.  Now onward to a child's sock test knit.

I've read most of N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became and I have mixed feelings about it. 

It's well written, but the characters are just running around doing tasks and collecting things and having fights. It feels like an excellent computer game, rather than a cohesive book. Maybe part of the problem is I've never been to New York and this book seems quite dependent on knowing (and caring) about the personalities of the different boroughs.

I'm listening to a NetGalley review copy of Joanna Stingray's The Red Wave. 

I was very excited to see this - I've wanted to read it since I heard about Joanna in the  podcast The Wind of Change in 2020. It's a memoir and I often find memoirs good to listen to. I'm enjoying it so far, but only started listening to it yesterday.

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. Jane27 April, 2023

    That little sweater is darling. It looks so bright and happy. I finished a hitchhiker and a hat so I'm in between projects. I'm reading The Island of Missing Trees.

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  2. shelleyrae @ book'd out01 May, 2023

    Such a pretty jumper! I hope Red Wave meets your expectations

    Wishing you a great reading week

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  3. Kathy Martin01 May, 2023

    Great sweater! I've never read Jemison but this one does sound more like a computer game than a book. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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