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Yarnalong - the one with a beginning, a middle and an end

Welcome to the March Yarnalong. I'm, just starting my next knitting project, Reagan by Elizabeth Kreamar.I swatched on the weekend,but only got cast on this evening, so I don't have a whole lot to show for it yet.
 Given that its a lace cardigan knit with fingering weight yarn, I think we'll be seeing this one for a while. I'm reading A Gentleman in Moscow I'm about half way through it, and mainly enjoying it, although it's an odd book, not following a quite linear narrative structure. I'm listening to No One-Tells You This a memoir by Glynnis MacNicole. I'm two thirds of the way through and not really enjoying it. it bills itself as a memoir about "If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?" but it's just the ramblings of a really self involved single woman, who thinks everything is about her, and who seems to be struggling to see marriage and children as anything but the default position. Weird for someone who lives in New York.In between she has some amusing anecdotes, but really, this book seems to have no structure and no point.

If you want to find all my book reviews, I'm SharonDblk on Goodreads. On Ravelry I'm SharonDoubleknit, and I blog about my knitting and sometimes my reading, cats and other adventures right here.  Check out what Ginny and the other Yarnalong peeps are up to this month over at Small Things.   

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  1. Juliana08 March, 2019

    I tried the Towles book but had a really hard time getting into it. (I say that as someone who lived in Moscow, worked on a PhD in Soviet History and is already favorably inclined toward stories of this type). I should probably try it again--so many people have recommended it!

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    1. Sharondoubleknit08 March, 2019

      It definitely grew on me as I got further through it.

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