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Linky Wednesday - the one where everything is in multiples

Until last month I described myself as a monogamous knitter, and that worked for me. While I have been knitting on my Beeswax Shawl at home I have been knitting simple things while out and about. This actually worked really well - I'm knitting a pair of simple socks as my public project: 

while I keep moving through the second half of the shawl The socks are Andrea Mowry's Tuka Honey, to keep the bee theme going!

In reading I used to be monogamous too. Then I added audiobooks into the mix, and now I've also got a non-fiction book going!

Currently I'm reading Chilco by Daniela Catrileo a NetGalley review book about colonialism, belonging and  set  in (I think) South America, as a change from the same topics in Australia!

I keep on requesting short non-fiction from Bloomsbury press, mainly the Object Lessons series, so over the next few weeks I'm going to read (and review) some of them, starting with Videotape and then reading Cat. 

Next up in fiction John Birmingham has released some action romances, so I'm going to try The Girl Who Came In From The Cold  before my next review book, which is more literary fiction Bonding by Mariel Franklin. (The John Birmingham book is free on Kindle this week, if you want to try some action romance).

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 on BlueSky as Sharondblk.

 I'm joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday, Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading.and Sam from Taking on a World of Words 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.

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  1. Becky (Aidanvale)03 July, 2025

    I've never heard of Chilco, but it sounds good. Sounds a little like some of Isabel Allende's books

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  2. Marg07 July, 2025

    I am sure that there will be some similarities between South American colonisation and what we experienced in Australia!

    Have a great week!

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