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Linky Wednesday - it's looking a bit like last week around here

 Unsurprisingly I'm still reading Empire of the Dawn. It's so good (if you like vampires and family and endless, endless bad things happening, which I do!) It's a big book, but it's not dragging at all. I'm near the dénouement, but I kind of never want it to finish, but I need it resolved! I'm going to have the biggest book hangover when I do finish it.


I'll be returning to the second half of Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser, so at least I know my next book will be well written.

In audiobooks I finished Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami. I didn't love it. Now I'm listening to Persona Non Grata (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #3) by Ruth Downie. It's a relaxing, somewhat silly, cosy mystery series set in the Roman Empire. 

In knitting I do have a new project on the needles:

Backlit by Stephanie Lotven. This has been in and out of my queue for years - I've bought yarn for it at least three times, and as far back as 2022. This time it got on the needles, although not with both the yarns I showed last week, they were actually too close in colour. this seems to be working out better.

The Joji's mystery shawl continues. There is only one clue left, and I have half my yarn left over, so I suspect I will spend of my knitting time on this, once the last clue drops on Thursday or Friday.  Click here for my Ravelry project, including spoilers. 

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. Emily20 November, 2025

    The cosy mysteries sound good. I hope that the book hangover isn't too bad 😂

    Have a great week!

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/www-wednesday-currently-reading-finished-reading-reading-next-163/

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