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Linky Wednesday - the one where I'm back

 All my recent holidays have been very fun, but I'm glad to have a moment at home and catch my breath (and catch up on the washing!). The knitting this week hasn't been great - I didn't have time to sort out a new project before we went away for the weekend, so I started a sock and it was a disaster. I'll come back on Sunday and explain the whole situation. Then, on Tuesday I grabbed some yarn and started a  Sonsie hat by Kate Davies, using left overs from Leon's winter set and some leftovers that Katie kindly gave me.

In reading I finished an overdue NetGalley review book Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su . I loved it, a wonderful coming of age book with an awkward protagonist.

Now I'm reading a NetGalley book that publishes tomorrow. Everyone in the Group Chat Dies by L.M. Chilton. 


It's giving strong Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson  vibes and I am here for it. Except our main character is an English young person. It's very modern and I'm enjoying it so far, although I hope the pace picks up a bit soon.

I've had struggles with audiobooks this week. I started The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow and after forty-five minutes I loathed it. So much telling, so little showing. So I DNFd it and have just started Squat by John Safran .


Next up is The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler, for the When am I reading? 2025 book challenge. I'm still looking for a book for the 18th century. Any suggests are welcome.

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. Emily14 March, 2025

    An interesting mix of books. I tend to like spin offs of Jane Austen's stuff, maybe I won't look at this one!

    Have a great week!

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
    My post:
    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/www-wednesday-currently-reading-finished-reading-reading-next-127/

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  2. Joanne17 March, 2025

    I was about to say Everyone in the Groupchat dies sounds interesting but then you commented on the pacing and maybe I'll wait for your final review before adding to my already too long TBR.

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    1. Sharondoubleknit17 March, 2025

      Yeah, it was fine,. but the plot was a bit holey, I wouldn't bother.

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  3. shelleyrae @ book'd out17 March, 2025

    Kate Greenville’s A Room Made Of Leaves is set in the late 1700’s in Australia, I think The Secret River is too.
    Sorry about the knitting disaster.
    Wishing you a happy reading week

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    1. Sharondoubleknit17 March, 2025

      Thanks for the reckos! Most of what I looked at was French Revolution, which isn't the mood I'm in.

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  4. Kathy Martin18 March, 2025

    Nice sounding assortment of books. I trying to build a little cushion of scheduled posts for my Review books with only mixed results. I keep getting distracted by the In Death books by J. D. Robb. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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