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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - the one with mixed feelings

I have mixed feelings towards my Spectra Scarf. It's pretty and looks fun, but it's quite a fiddly knit with endless short rows, and messing about to get the stripes in the right spots. It  is really effective though.

I have positive feelings towards my fuzzy jumper:

Probably one good night's knitting and the second sleeve will be done and I'll have a very fuzzy, very pretty  quite warm jumper to wear while it's still chilly winter here.

I have very mixed feelings about the NetGalley review book I'm reading - The Modern by Anna Kate Blair.


The issue is that we spend the whole book inside the main character's head, and she's more frustrating than interesting. She is trying to get another contract at MoMA, but she only talks about what a terrible place it is to work, she is sad because no-one realises she's bisexual, she is engaged to a man who is off hiking and has so little personality that she (and I) doesn't think about him when he is not present. She thinks a lot about modern art, which I don't care about at all. She had a crush on a girl called Emily, at least 6 years before this book is set. And she goes on and on and on about it. She's like that friend we all have, that we catch up for a drink every month or two and find ourselves both bored and drained afterwards. And yet we maintain the friendship - which is another way of saying that I am very frustrated with this novel, and also quite involved.

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. Kathy Martin21 August, 2023

    I think I'd find the book too frustrating to continue reading. The knitting looks good. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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