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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - more progress

 My cosy house jumper is progressing nicely, and it's still cold enough here that it will get a fair amount of wear before it's time to pack it away for summer.

I've just got the collar to go, but it is 24 cm of 1x1 twisted rib  - which is as longer than some of the hats I make. It normally takes me two or three days to make a hat, so I might be back with finished photos on the weekend.

The reading has been a tiny bit glitchier - I started a review copy of Indomitable by Claudia Brooke, and could not stand it. In the first ten percent there was two incidents of self-fat shaming and one where the main character steps in dog poo and gets it on the laces of her shoe (how?) and then "has" to throw the shoes out, because there is no way to fix that. A main character who literally cannot deal with shit on her shoe. I'll have to give it a decent try, because it is a review book, but I'm just finding it so frustrating.

Instead I decided to read the oldest book on my Kindle - The Dutch House, by Ann Patchet. 

Being Ann Patchet it's exceedingly well written- it is slightly odd, because it's a non-linear narrative, but she makes it work and I am looking forward to seeing what happens next.

And that's my week in knitting and reading.  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. Glad you are enjoying your current book.

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  2. It sounds like you have good reason to give up on Indomitable. I hope The Dutch House works out better for you

    Wishing you a great reading week

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