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Unravelled Wednesday and What Are You Reading - the one where I am preparing for Good Beer Week

Every year I choose a reasonably simple, portable project for Good Beer Week. This year I have decided on knee high socks. But I didn't want to start them much before the week (which is actually 10 days, and starts on Friday. Presumably. Melbourne had our first COVID case in something like 70 days, so hopefully we can have Beer Festivals, rather than a lockdown. Oh, the suspense). 

I've been churning out charity knits from LOSY and other left overs. Since last Friday I've made 2 hats and 3 pairs of mitts. I've just got this pair to finish off, and then I'll wind the sock yarn and get ready to go!

I'm reading Ann  Patchett's State of Wonder. It got on my TBR when Elizabeth Gilbert talked about it in  Big Magic and I picked it up now because the last couple of books I have read have had repeated graphic sex scenes, and I'm really sick of reading books that describe how people's genitals fit together. So I guess it's literature for me for a while. I'm about half way through and really enjoying it, it has a slightly gothic feel, and I am looking forward, with slight apprehension, to what happens next.

I've NEARLY finished Vicarious, by Rhett C. Bruno. It's dragging for me, and I'm listening to more pod-casts than books right now. 

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.  Thanks Kat and Kat for hosting these linkups. 

Comments

  1. Kym12 May, 2021

    Okay. Good Beer Week. What a great thing! :-)
    And State of Wonder is so good.

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  2. shelleyrae @ book'd out17 May, 2021

    I hope you avoid lockdown, it will be interesting to see how Merlino acts compares to Andrews.

    Wishing you a great reading week

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  3. Laurel-Rain Snow17 May, 2021

    I enjoy Ann Patchett's books. Have a great week, and thanks for sharing. Here are my WEEKLY UPDATES

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  4. Penelope @ The Reading Devil18 May, 2021

    Oh good luck with the socks!! I tried learning how to knit when I was younger but it never really stuck... now I wish I would have continued with it! Hope you have a great week and like the ending to your book :)

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