Skip to main content

Linky Wednesday - the one with many review books.

It's NetGalley madness around here! I reviewed two NetGalley books about mixing drinks  and talked about drinking earlier in the week. Then I finished Shmutz, which I really enjoyed, even though it was confronting at times. I'm currently racing through The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tindar.

It's a strange book in the best possible way, reminding me of the  tone and wierdness of Kurt Vonnegaught. The story is about a science fiction book and religion founded by it's author and people keep getting kidnapped and it's madness and I'm loving it. Next I have another review book - Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen. 

I was very excited to get approved for this one, I follow Nadine on the socials and she's another (relatively) local author, so hopefully that will go well.

The knitting of Elise's Spectra has been calm, if not soothing. Endless short rows and stripes:

I've got  8 grams of the main colour left, so maybe four wedges to go,  and then I'm going to us the leftover yarn to make her a Mussleburgh hat.

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.  This week I'm also linking up with Sam from Taking on a World of Words to for WWW Wednesday where we talk about what we are currently reading, what we have just finished and what we are going to read next.


Labels:

Comments

  1. Mark Baker28 August, 2023

    The Circumference of the World sounds completely wacky, and therefore completely delightful. Glad you are enjoying it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. shelleyrae @ book'd out28 August, 2023

    Netgalley is pure temptation:) I hope Everyone and Everything lives up to your expectations

    Wishing you a great reading week

    ReplyDelete
  3. Kathy Martin29 August, 2023

    Your review books look good. I have a bunch of releases that I need to read soon. I like the knitting too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

    ReplyDelete
  4. mumjd31 August, 2023

    I love getting books from NetGalley too, those look intriguing reads. Popping by via #BookDate

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

We are heading off for some camping and hiking and general R&R on Friday, so I'm currently in planning and preparing mode. Of course that mainly means deciding what to knit - I'm going to make the Old Romance cardigan by Joji Locatelli. The yarn is wound and I'm ready to go. I completed Leon's Winter Set (2023) just in time, and it's currently blocking. I'm reading Georgette Hayer's Fredrica , which I am enjoying very much. Regency romance is so sweet and, unlike current romance offerings, I know it won't suddenly tumble into gynaecological territory!  For unexplained reasons, NetGalley is offering some Georgette Heyer books at the moment - (maybe it's re-release?) and I'm taking this opportunity to read a few more of them 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  Sharondoublekni t and on GoodReads as  Sharondblk .  I'm joining in with Kat ...
2 comments
Read more

Yarnalong - the one with the final bit of transport

Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy.   And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...
3 comments
Read more

Why Andrea Mowry, why? (A rant and a rather nice finished object)

As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit  Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat.  The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...
1 comment
Read more