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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - the last one for February

Everything is kind of at the beginning right now. I've finished my Find Your Fade shawl. I love it, I just have to sew in the ends and block. 

After I finished that I started a sock for Leon. It's a two colour sock with bright colours, which is very unlike him, but he chose the colours. I like it, although it looks a bit sports team to me. I only started it yesterday, so it's got a way to go!

I finished the book I was reading (Severance by Ling Ma) I'm still processing it, it has many layers and reflects on late-stage capitalism, community, the immigrant experience. Many things. It was first published in 2018, but is a pandemic novel, and Ling Ma might have been somewhat prescient. There is no panic, or rushing around, just a slow bur of "the End".  Brilliant.


I'm not sure what I'm going to read next - probably the oldest book on my Kindle (The Maid) I want to either read or delete all the books that have been hanging around on my Kindle, always getting passed over for newer shiner books.

In audio-books Leon and I started Light from Uncommon Stars which is weird and cute and laugh out loud funny. It has the most perfect cover.


On my own, I have just started listening to a NetGalley review copy of Atomic Family by Ciera Horton McElroy. It's set in America in the early '60s in a town that makes nuclear bombs. I've only just started it, but so far I'm finding it really good. I'll be back with a full update when I'm further into it.

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. Cheriee Weichel27 February, 2023

    Thanks for the heads up about Severance. It reminds me of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. It's another prescient novel about a plague.

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    1. Sharondoubleknit01 March, 2023

      There are definite echoes in each of those books.

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  2. Mark Baker27 February, 2023

    I hear you on wanting to read the older books on my Kindle that get passed over for the new and shiny. The problem is, I want to read the new and shiny, too. Oh to have more time to read.

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  3. Kathy Martin28 February, 2023

    I've been trying to read older books from my print shelves. Lots of the time I wonder why I ever chose the book. It is helping me thin down the stacks though. Come see my week <a href="https://inside-dog.blogspot.com/2023/02/its-monday-what-are-you-reading_0915683980.html>here</a>. Happy reading!

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