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Linky Wednesday - the one with a visit with John Rebus

 Sometimes I request review books that are outside my usual genres (which are quite broad) as an opportunity to widen my experience. When I saw a children's book called Nasty Negative What Ifs I thought it would be an opportunity. When I was a child (oh so long ago ;) we didn't talk much about our inner worlds and what was going on inside our heads, and that has certainly changed. So, a children's book about ruminating? Yes please.

It's cute, but kind of simplistic. Nicely illustrated and a good message. 

I took a quick break from reviewing to read the oldest book on my Kindle. A Heart Full of Headstones the 24th Inspector Rebus book. 

I started reading this series around 2011 - before I started on Goodreads, and I'm pretty sure, over the years, I've read all of them.  It feels like visiting with an old, cranky friend.Its  interesting to me that both this and my previous read (the Barbara O'Neil new release The Starfish Sisters) integrate COVID as part of the plot - not a dramatic part of the plot, just (like we all have in real life) as a thing that happened. 

Next up is the book I thought I was going to read this week, before the Rebus snuck in,  A Book of Paradise, described as "A child born in an east European Jewish community retains his memory of life in Paradise in this novel based on Yiddish folklore" so that will be a change of pace.

After knitting a charity set (minus the jumper) I've just started a cabled jumper for myself. It took a bit to get going, as the prescribed needle size was very wrong for me, but I have high hopes for this one. 

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.

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  1. Samy14 September, 2023

    Hey there!
    Interesting reads! Not my genre but hope you had fun!

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  2. Anonymous14 September, 2023

    The cables look beautiful! A Book of Paradise sounds like a good read.

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  3. Anonymous14 September, 2023

    Happy reading!

    My WWW: https://laurieisreading.com/2023/09/13/www-wednesday-09-13-2023/

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  4. Kathy Martin19 September, 2023

    Interesting assortment of books. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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