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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I settle into some good books

After last week's struggle to find a book and an audio book I could enjoy I read Penny Reid's (Folk) and Eddie The happiest Man Alive, both of which restored my enthusiasm for literature! Now I'm reading  a NetGalley review copy of Love in The Big City a Korean story of a  gay guy and his sad adventures. 

It's not bad, but it's a bit adolescent. The structure is as four stories of four relationships, and it's reads a bit more like four novellas than a cohesive book. I've just started listening to The Dictionary of Lost Words, which is the free Audible book this month. So far I'm really enjoying it.  

 Mainly I'm spending my listening time on The History of English Podcast.

I'm chugging away on my knee high socks. I love knitting with glitter yarn!




And in embroidery I put aside my sampler in favour of Christmas ornaments. 

Each year the Richmond Knitters do an ornament swap, so if I can get this finished by early December, that's where it will go. It took me a (three day) weekend, to do one of the "trees" so I ma be able to get it done ... or not. We will see.

It's getting a bit hard to find a lot of time for stitching, since I am back in the office, but Lincraft is just around the corner, and they sell every colour of DMC embroidery cotton, so I guess that's swings and roundabouts!

And that's my week in reading, knitting and embroidery. 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.  

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  1. Patricia in New Mexico17 November, 2021

    Oh! I so enjoyed reading the mere description of The Dictionary of Lost Words that I can hardly wait to read the book! Thank you for sharing!

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