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Linky Wednesday - the one where everything is new

 As promised last week, everything is new this week. I started not one but two knitting projects. The Drawing Sweater is lovely, but too complex to work on when doing anything - even watching TV:

And I'm freestyling the patterning on a pair of Remnant Socks, which are simple to knit in all situations.

In reading I DNFd both an audiobook (Lessons In Chemistry) and an eye-read review book (Corey Doctorow's The Lost Cause). I just couldn't engage with any of the characters or situations. I was starting to think I was the problem, but I'm listening to Trent Dalton's Lola in The Mirror, and reading an early Taylor Jenkin Reid After I Do and finding them both interesting and engaging. 

What a relief. I don't really get into reading slumps, but I was becoming concerned!

I'm not sure what I'm reading next. I've got Orbital by Samantha Harvey as my only remaining fiction review book for 2023, or Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, which appears to be the only non-review book I have unread. I guess I'll see how I feel when I get to the end of my current read.

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. Kathy Martin14 November, 2023

    I eye-read Lessons in Chemistry and wondered what all the hype was about. I did finish it but I'm not sure why. I'm glad your new choices are more engaging for you. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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