Unravelled Wednesday and What are You Reading Monday - the one with the big ones

I had a gap between review books (nothing due until September!) and I decided to read the oldest - and longest - book on  my Kindle, The Far Pavilions by MM Kaye, which I bought in December 2020, so I guess the turnover on my Kindle isn't as slow as I thought it was. 

I bought it when it was the Kindle Daily Deal. But the reason I bought it was because, back in the old days, before Kindles, when I used to buy most of my books second-hand from op-shops, I had a copy of this. It was about 2006, and I lived alone in a little one-bedder, and I used a bookshelf to create visual separation between the doorway and the living room, and this book sat there, unread. It had a lurid cover, the same, or similar to the one above.  At some point I got rid of it, still unread.

I hesitated to start it, because it's 950 pages long, and because I was worried it would be full of distasteful colonialism. It's fine, and asks the relevant questions (what right do English people have to come to this country and take over?) and is, so far, a jolly good adventure. Of course, I'm only a quarter through it, because it's a big book, and you'll be hearing about it for a while!  

 

My knitting project this week is actually crotchet, my first crotchet project since the dishcloths in February. I decided to use up a bunch of LOSY (Left Over Sock Yarn) to make a baby blanket for KOGO. It's really fun, I got to learn a new stitch, and crotchet grows so fast - I started this on Sunday, and am almost on the straight side bit before decreasing.   

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 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.