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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - The one with the KU books

Getting back from holidays, going back to work and just everyday living is very busy this week. I've got my first powerlifting competition this weekend, which is taking up both time and my emotional energy. Still, I always have time to read and knit.

I'm almost finished my Ballerina Shrug (picture from the aeroplane yesterday). I got most of the way through the cast off, and then had some yarn-barf that has taken literally hours to untangle. I think it's going to be a very cute garment. Hopefully i will get all those many ends sewn in, either on my lunch break or tomorrow evening, and be back to show you the finished, modelled garment on Friday.  
I'm reading John Birmingham's The Shattered Stars, which is the second book in a trilogy. It keeps moving right along. I often find the middle volume of Birmingham's trilogies a little workman like, and at 432 pages I'm finding this a little bit of a slog, but also I want to know what happens next. it's not bad, there is just a lot of information, some of which might not be that important. Musings and thoughts and so on.The series in on Kindle Unlimited, which is always a plus.


I'm listening to Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover. It's a romance, which I had downloaded from Kindle Unlimed. Many of the KU books also come with audio, and I accidentally downloaded the audio, so I decided to listen to it. The book has two narrators, as does the audio-book, and it's a straight-up romance. it's a bit repetitive, I feel like I have been given the same pieces of information over and over again. Also, the main charachter moved to a new town and made no friends, including her house-mates, but later she gets a job in a bar and is instantly friends with everyone, so that seems a little contradictory. Still, I cannot wait to sit down, put on my headphones and find out what happens, probably while sewing in all the ends on my teeny tiny jumper.


And that's what I'm knitting and reading right now.  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. Kathryn T11 July, 2022

    Craft and audiobooks do go well together even if the book is bit repetitive. I guess knitting is too!

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  2. Miaismine11 July, 2022

    Your shrug is coming along nicely! I so hear you about untangling yarn! Yes! I so love my Kindle Unlimited account! Ahhh…so many books, so little time.
    I’m a huge audio book fan. It has so increased my reading time!
    Thank you so much for sharing!

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  3. Laurel-Rain Snow12 July, 2022

    Someday I might have to try an audiobook. Actually, I have tried one, but it didn't work out well. I guess one has to be doing something else while listening!

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  4. Cheriee Weichel12 July, 2022

    Good luck with the shrug. I find tying the ends in one of the most satisfying parts of a project. It means it's almost done!

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