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WAYRN and Unravelled Wednesday - the one where my plan works

My plan to knit something when out and something when at home is working! I've finished both sleeves on Leon's jumper since Saturday, and I'm really happy with how the yarn is knitting up. I'll be casting on for the body today. Such a relaxing knitting project.

It took some discipline, but when I'm home I've been slowly knitting away at my colourwork jumper. I haven't made a great deal of progress, but I was only home on Sunday night. It's been a busy week! I doubt there will be a lot more progress in the next week - I'll be home on Thursday night, and that's it.

I'm a bit stuck on reading, both audio and eye-reading. What should I read after Neal Stephenson's Seveneves? It was such an amazing book - not amazingly good, just amazing, and following that up is difficult. I've tried and abandoned a few books and am not desultorily reading Elizabeth Strout's The Burgess Boys. 

It's fine. Well written and interesting enough, but it's not a 5000 year science fiction epic!

I'm also between audio books. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

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. kmkat18 May, 2023

    I am listening to The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, the story of the short and unhappy marriage between Alphonso II, Duke of d'Este, and Lucretia de Medici of Florence. It transports me back to a time when a woman was completely under the control of her husband, a virtual prisoner.

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    1. Sharondoubleknit18 May, 2023

      Sounds interesting, and i know a bunch of people around here love Maggie O'Farrell.

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  2. Mark Baker22 May, 2023

    I'm laughing at your issue with your book. I get it. sometimes you are in the mood for something else, and anything else is going to be a disappointment when it isn't what you want.

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    1. Sharondoubleknit24 May, 2023

      Although somewhat surprisingly I ended up LOVING the Burgess Boys, so you never know.

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