Linky Wednesday - the one with many projects

Thanks to all who sent good thoughts for my Father. He's out of hospital and seems perfectly fine, so that's a great outcome. 

I read and loved The Book Keeper by Sarah Painter. That blend of relationship-based urban fantasy was exactly what I was in the mood for. Then I tried to read Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes. While Moyes writes nicely I found all the characters annoying and the idea that high heels could ever make life better is repugnant. I moved on to Derring-Do for Beginners  by Victoria Goddard. I love Victoria Goddard. All her books are set in the same universe, but different times, so this is the backstory for some characters we are very familiar with. Delightful. 

In audiobooks, I'm about to finish a rather silly freebee Mad Love by Wendy Walker. It's full cast, so it feels like listening to a radio play. It's fine. It describes itself as a thriller, but there is nothing particularly thrilling about it. The entire novella is a (probably unintentional) argument for gun control.   

Any suggestions for my next listen are appreciated.

Next up in eye-reading, I've got four NetGalley books to read and review in October, starting with The Day He Disappeared by Catharine Miller. It's described as 'an absolutely heartbreaking and unputdownable page-turner' and I am here for that!

After my cast-on attack last week I have three things on the needles. The gnome is very close to finished, here's the pattern as written. 

But I think he needs arms, so I'm improvising him a pair.

The handspun  shawl had a bit of a hiccup, where I knit the 'teeth' on the wrong side for a whole repeat, so not much progress there. We have a long weekend because Friday is The Day Before a Football Game So We Don't Have to Go To Work day.  I'll have some time to work on this - although I also want to spin and make some polymer clay gnomes.

The bathmat is going very nicely and only needs a few more hours work:

I'd love to get all these finished before sOctober, but I think that might be a reach - at least if I still want to be able to use my hands!

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.