Linky Wednesday - the end of sOctober

We have come to the end of sOctober - my favourite month of the year. To celebrate I am knitting Sake by Cookie A. It's not overly difficult, but every stitch is charted and every row has cable crossings, so it's a slow knit.

I'm also knitting the sleeves of Leon's jumper, which are very simple and soothing. We're going on a road / camping trip this weekend, which will be a chance to make some good progress on the body.

After a couple of not so great books I'm reading The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

It's a lovely book (cosy fantasy, maybe, although not that much fantasy) I really like the way Natasha Pulley writes, which is great, because she has written ten books, and I think the library has most of them.

Next up is The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale. A review book which is apparently a twisty thriller. That's probably what I will read.

I like Pip Drysdale, but I mainly selected it for the cover:

I love a face cover, I love palm trees I really hope the book can live up to it's cover.

I'm going away with Bee with weekend, and she has, in the last six months, gone from not reading at all to reading voraciously. I suggested we buddy read this weekend, and she said that she only reads trash, and I said great. She said she would send me some ideas, but she hasn't, so we will see.

And that's my week. Come back on Friday when I tell you more about my weekend trip, and the new luggage I bought.

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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