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Linky Wednesday - the one where I am in between

 As promised, I read the NetGalley review book Becoming Marlow Fin, (two stars, not great) and am not reading the next Albert Campion mystery, Coroner's Pidgin . I'm struggling a little with this one. There just seem to be loads of characters running around. Still, I'm only a quarter way through, and history says I will get into it. 

After this, a review copy of Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine by Thao Votang, which is both a review book due at the end of the month, and the oldest book on my kindle.

In knitting, I finished the shawl I've been working on for the last couple of weeks, which is very pleasing:


And I'm knitting a pair of mittens for charity, although I only have the thumbs to go.
After that I'm going to knit a dress, so you'll see that plenty over the next few weeks!

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 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. Emily11 July, 2024

    I like a mystery but if there are too many characters it becomes a bit of a chore.

    I love the shawl and the mittens are cute.

    Have a great week!

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/07/10/www-wednesday-currently-reading-finished-reading-reading-next-93/

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  2. Kathryn T15 July, 2024

    When a book has a lot of characters it can be hard to get into, hope you are having better luck with it now.

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  3. Marg15 July, 2024

    Gosh.....I couldn't even tell you what the oldest book on my Kindle is. I can tell you it has been there a VERY long time!

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  4. Kathy Martin16 July, 2024

    I love your shawl and those mittens look good too. I don't think I'd be drawn to any of your reading choices though. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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  5. Harvee16 July, 2024

    I hate when I get excited about books that turn out to be not so good. Rather than struggle with them too much, I move on as my TBR is overflowing with unread books!

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