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Linky Wednesday - the one where I make it to 200

 Yes, I got my NetGalley 200 books badge. Very exciting.


 Despite this, non of my books this week were review books. As predicted last week I'm reading The Thursday Murder Club.  It's silly and interesting and feels like a good read for this time of year.

 I'm listening to Ice Station  by Matthew Reilly. It's silly bordering on stupid. So far I've listened to 4 hours of it, and three and a half have been an ongoing battle between some marines and some french soldiers, in Antarctica. I actually eye-read this when it first came out in 1988 and vaguely remember the battle, but nothing else. Look at that vintage cover! 

In knitting I've finished the two projects I have been talking about for the last month and they are both blocking.


Up next: If you hoped for more varied knitting conent, I'm going to disappoint - I'm knitting a Boxy jumper for Katie, which is a big project. I'm going to read Victoria Goddard's Hands of the Emperor, which is a big book. That means things are going to be rather dull around here for another month, but there will be fun things happening on other days of the week. Come back on Friday and I will (hopefully) have modelled photos of both the finished projects.   

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. Cheryl Malandrinos18 December, 2023

    Nice job on the NetGalley badge. Thanks for sharing your latest project. Looks nice. Hope you have a great week.

    https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2023/12/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-and_17.html

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  2. Mark Baker18 December, 2023

    I didn't know there was such a thing as a 200 book badge at NetGalley. Congrats on reaching it. But now I'm wondering how close I am to reaching it.

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  3. Barb19 December, 2023

    That sweater looks awesome and congrats on your new badge!

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  4. Kathryn T19 December, 2023

    Well 200 books is excellent. Well done. Richard Osman seems to write a popular set of books.

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