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Linky Wednesday - the one before Bendigo

That's right, tomorrow I leave for my favourite weekend of the year - the Australian Sheep show. 

As usual all NetGalley copies are marked with an *.

I finished In Wonderland* by Joyce Maynard. It's a mediative tale told from the point of view of a 14-year old having a very different summer, a poor girl being a 'mothers helper' for a rich, but dysfunctional family and reflections on how it affects the rest of her life.

Now I'm reading  The Intrigue* by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I'm a third of the way through. It's well written on a paragraph to paragraph basis, but i just don't care about any of the characters, or what happens to them. We have a failing scam artist, a bitter spinster and a frustrated young woman, and I'm completely not invested. They all deserve each other. I might not finish it, but I'll struggle on for a bit. 

After that, I'll be reading The Music Between You And I by Quiana Glide* an age gap, rockstar romance with a zany heroine. I hope the grammar of the writing is better than the grammar of the title. Sometimes I wonder what makes me request this books, although I do love the cover.


In audio, I LOVED  Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. I'm so excited that there are more of these books. Dark academia is a favourite of mine!

For reasons I can not explain (except that I loved Unreal) I'm listening to The Love Producer by Julie LaPlaca*, which is a memoir by one of the Bachelor producers. It's well written, but Julia lacks so much self-awareness that it sometimes seems to unintentionally melt into satire.

I have been preparing my knitting for Bendigo weekend by getting my Bendigo projects finalised. then I made a quick, cute set of hat and socks for a one-year old for charity. 

Then I made a hat out of handspun to match the shawl I recently made

I just need to do the crown, which is about 8 more round.

then I'll cast on my project for the weekend -  Primavera Socks to keep my hands, but not my mind, busy while I am away. As a bonus, the self striping yarn I'm using is by Dani - HalfBaked HandDyed, who is both a friend of mine and vending at the show. 

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 linking up 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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