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Linky Wednesday - the one with lots of books

After last week's drama this week has been much better (at least for me personally, let's not talk about the state of the world or what happened in our referendum). I read John Scalzi's Starter Villain, which was really good, but very quick. I was luucky enough to get aNetGalley approval for Claire Keegan's So Late in The Day which is three short stories. I've read the first one, which was very powerful and rather sad, so I'm taking a break before reading the next story.


In between I'm reading Crushing  a novel about a 28 year old trying to find herself. It's quite light, and it's set in Melbourne at the end of 2021 and Novak perfectly captures how Melbourne felt after being the longest locked-down city in the world and the weirdness of being in your late 20s without having a clue what is going on.

After I finish that I will probably read my next NetGally review book - Anna Turns by Lisa Gornick.

The knitting is going well. I've just got the leg to go on my second sock and then I will go back to my soothing dress:


Terrible photo, I took it after we left the pub last night. I'm rather knitting these just to get them done at this point, but sometimes projects get like that.

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. Meezan23 October, 2023

    Glad you had a better week. I hope this is a good one for you too. :)

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  2. Kathy Martin24 October, 2023

    Nice sounding assortment of books. I'm slogging through a review book right now that I want to DNF but won't. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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  3. Cheriee Weichel25 October, 2023

    I just finished a pair of socks for my husbands Christmas gift. I'm hoping for better news this coming week.

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