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Linky Wednesday - the one with the life hangover

I'm not feeling super positive as I write this. The good thing about having lots of friends who are all friends with each other (I accidentally made all my separate groups of friends cross pollinate) is that when something goes wrong everyone supports each other. We are all sad together. So many messages "are you ok?" " how are you feeling?".  The bad thing is we are all sad. Anyway, it's my birthday today and while I don't feel full of joy, I do feel very loved. And of course, throughout it all I have two of the great comforts of my life - reading and knitting. 

In reading I'm reading a Kobo-Plus book Our Liminal Spaces by Poornima Manco. It's set in India in the 1990. I'm enjoying it so far, it's a relationship based book, and covers things like changing social expectations and modernisation.

I'm still listening to Longbourn. It's taken quite a dark turn, which I wasn't really expecting, since Pride and Prejudice is a rom-com. Still, it's always a pleasure to sit with an audiobook and do some spinning, and I am SO CLOSE to finishing the singles of this rather large spinning project. 

In knitting, I finished my super-secret test knit, and decided to make a pair of shorties based on the same pattern. Since I can't show you those, here's a picture of a little baby jumper I made for charity in between pairs of socks:


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. julia in KW19 December, 2024

    Lurker here in Canada. I’m so sorry about your friend. Sending you birthday wishes!

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  2. Emily21 December, 2024

    I hope that you had a good birthday despite everything. Sending love to you all.

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
    My post:
    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/www-wednesday-currently-reading-finished-reading-reading-next-116/

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  3. Cheryl Malandrinos23 December, 2024

    Wishing you a blessed birthday. Praying for peace and comfort.

    https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-dec-23.html

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  4. shelleyrae @ book'd out24 December, 2024

    I’m sorry about the loss of your friend, I’m glad you have comfort of others. I hope you find some joy in celebrating another birthday today

    Wishing you a wonderful week

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