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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN- false starts and long slogs

It took me a while to get on to my next book after finishing the excellent The Vanishing Half. I tried to read a Netgalley review copy of The Rabbit Hutch. I got far enough into it to think "this is weird, it might be good". Then I realised that every time I closed and re-opened my Kindle when reading this book it restarted the whole Kindle. So I deleted the book and haven't had any other issues with the Kindle. I read some fairly scrappy Debbie Macomber short stories. After all that I started another NetGalley Review book - Maror by Lavie Tidhar. It's a big book, set in Israel and centred around a corrupt police officer. Another reviewer described it as "an epic historical noir" which is accurate. The main thing is that after all the false starts here's a big book that I cannot put down. Very satisfying. 

The knitting goes on. I felt like I'd made barely any progress since last week, but actually I've finished the body and most of one sleeve. Brioche is slow, but it's such a pink, squishy satisfying knit.

And that's what I'm knitting and reading this week.  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. Mark Baker01 August, 2022

    That's weird with your Kindle restarting. I wonder what the issue was.

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    1. PRSB03 August, 2022

      It seemed odd. i reinstalled it and it was fine.

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  2. Kathy Martin02 August, 2022

    My Kindle is getting older. I find I have to restart it rather often. Maror looks intriguing. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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    1. PRSB03 August, 2022

      Mine's only a couple of years old, so it was very strange.

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