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Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - The one where everything is under review

Well just the books, but there are three of them - audio, fiction and non-fiction, all kindly provided by NetGalley. In audio I am still listening to Joanna Stingray's  Red Wave, An American In the Soviet Music Underground. It's not a prefect book, like most memoirs its very focused on certain things, while not telling the complete story, and missing things that I want to know, but it is quite interesting.

I'm reading Old Boys by Nick Spalding. Two books in a row about middle aged men coming of age (the other being the excellent Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan). This book is pretty solid. I'm pretty sure I know where it is going, but the journey is the point. And anyway, I'm only a third of the way through it, so  I might be wrong.

I'm also reading the Object Lesson's book Wine by Meg Bernhart. This is one of the more memoir based books in the series, and I'm finding her history and the story of wine very interesting. She's touched on worker exploitation, viticulture, wine culture and wine snobs, and how to prune a vine. And look at that cover!

Knitting sees me drawing very near the end of mini-skein madness, but still in there, with a pair of mittens to match the hat, scarf, gloves, jumper and socks I have finished. these are going off to Syria to hopefully provide some warmth and comfort to a child in a refugee camp.



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 Baker08 May, 2023

    Sounds like some interesting books.

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  2. Harvee4408 May, 2023

    Isn't NetGalley a wonderful thing for ebooks? Too wonderful as I have a backlog! Have a good week.

    https://bookdilettante.blogspot.com/2023/05/aapi-heritage-month-memoir-two-novels.html

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  3. shelleyrae @ book'd out08 May, 2023

    I have the second Schnabels book, Prettier If She Smiled More, to read.

    Wishing you a wonderful reading week

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    1. Sharondoubleknit09 May, 2023

      I only just found out there is a second book, and I'm pretty excited about it.

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  4. Kathy Martin09 May, 2023

    Sounds like the books are interesting. All of them are new to me. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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