Skip to main content

Linky Wednesday - the one with a visit with John Rebus

 Sometimes I request review books that are outside my usual genres (which are quite broad) as an opportunity to widen my experience. When I saw a children's book called Nasty Negative What Ifs I thought it would be an opportunity. When I was a child (oh so long ago ;) we didn't talk much about our inner worlds and what was going on inside our heads, and that has certainly changed. So, a children's book about ruminating? Yes please.

It's cute, but kind of simplistic. Nicely illustrated and a good message. 

I took a quick break from reviewing to read the oldest book on my Kindle. A Heart Full of Headstones the 24th Inspector Rebus book. 

I started reading this series around 2011 - before I started on Goodreads, and I'm pretty sure, over the years, I've read all of them.  It feels like visiting with an old, cranky friend.Its  interesting to me that both this and my previous read (the Barbara O'Neil new release The Starfish Sisters) integrate COVID as part of the plot - not a dramatic part of the plot, just (like we all have in real life) as a thing that happened. 

Next up is the book I thought I was going to read this week, before the Rebus snuck in,  A Book of Paradise, described as "A child born in an east European Jewish community retains his memory of life in Paradise in this novel based on Yiddish folklore" so that will be a change of pace.

After knitting a charity set (minus the jumper) I've just started a cabled jumper for myself. It took a bit to get going, as the prescribed needle size was very wrong for me, but I have high hopes for this one. 

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.  This week I'm also linking up with Sam from Taking on a World of Words to for WWW Wednesday where we talk about what we are currently reading, what we have just finished and what we are going to read next.

Labels:

Comments

  1. Samy14 September, 2023

    Hey there!
    Interesting reads! Not my genre but hope you had fun!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous14 September, 2023

    The cables look beautiful! A Book of Paradise sounds like a good read.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous14 September, 2023

    Happy reading!

    My WWW: https://laurieisreading.com/2023/09/13/www-wednesday-09-13-2023/

    ReplyDelete
  4. Kathy Martin19 September, 2023

    Interesting assortment of books. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Linky Wednesday - 3/2024

  It's been a bit of a week. Because of my hand , I can't really knit, so I'm doing some charity crocheting:  It's quite fun, but also I'm halfway through a shrug for myself, and I'd rather be knitting. Oh well, we can't always get what we want! In reading, I'm reading Stargazy Pie , the next Victoria Goddard. This is a comedy of manners and  lots of things happen. I can't say I feel deeply  about any of them, but that's not the point. It's fun.   I'm listening to Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend . It's got a lot of characters, and it took me while to get into it, but now I'm invested. Women's fiction at it's finest. Next up is a review book Tidelines by Sarah Sasson. Great cover. It's Australian, and you know how I love a local book (although I think it's set, or at least starts in Sydney). It's described as a coming of age  novel, and I love those too, so it sounds like a winner.  I just re-read t...
16 comments
Read more

Geogradiant MKAL Part 1 - that was unexpected (spoilers)

Stephen West released the first MKAL clue on Thursday night. I started knitting it without looking at spoilers. When I got up on Friday he had sent through an "alternative" clue one. I then went and had a look at the spoiler thread to try to work out what was going on. Which was that some people thought the pattern looked like a "German hate symbol". I knit on anyway, since I was half-way through. Then he took down the original clue, replacing it with a mitred square in garter stitch. The Ravelry forums and Instagram are a complete shit-show, even though Rav is being moderated. It's been a bit disheartening, having something that is usually quite light and fun weighed down with all this. I admire Stephen's quick and sensitive response to this drama. I also feel that anything can look like anything if you squint. To me this looks like a Celtic knot. I think mine is pretty, and I'll knit on through all crises. 
7 comments
Read more

Linky Wednesday - the one with the pause

In meditation it's said that the pause between the in breath and the out breath is a gap, a space to rest. Well, I'm in that in-between space for reading, listening and knitting. This is a random photo of a highlight of my week - I filled up my lolly jar. These are just supermarket party mix. During the lockdowns, we sources a great pick-and-mix delivery service, but at some point they started sending from the UK, which is a bit silly. Rachey messaged me a new one she found, and I impulsed purchased a kilo of mixed lollies, and then she sent me a link to the biggest lolly shop in Melbourne, which also delivers sweets by the kilogram, so i think I'm sorted for the rest of the year!  In reading I've just finished  The Beckoning Lady   by Margery Allingham . It's the second last book in the Summer of Mystery, and I have to admit, having now read nine Margery Allingham books, that they are OK. I wouldn't have read them if they were not connected to this club, but on...
5 comments
Read more