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Linky Wednesday - the one with the Sri Lanka audiobooks

I may have made a little mistake with the audio-books this week. With Leon I am listening to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, a book about a gay war photographer killed in the Sri Lankan civil war.

 By myself I am listening to A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam, about a Sri Lankan man trying to help clean up, post war after seeing war photographs. They are very different books, but in audio they are getting a bit confused in my head.

In eye reading I have very nearly finished the NetGalley review book The Confidence Woman by Sophie Quick. 

It's beautiful and heartbreaking and set in Melbourne. I highly recommend. Next up is another NetGalley review book A Lady's Guide to London by Faye Delacour, because I randomly thought 'I feel like reading a romance' and it was both a romance and the next thing in my NetGalley queue. Serendipity.

In crafting I've finished the top I was knitting (come back Friday for modelled photos) and am very happy with it. I'm now knitting the Anica Shawl - a little one skein shawlette. I'm using my own handspun and I'm here to tell you, there is nothing so delightful as knitting with yarn I have made from fluff:

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. Vicki Knitorious03 April, 2025

    I haven't read A Passage North, but I have read The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and I can tell just by your description how they'd be easily muddled in your head on audio! Good luck. ;)

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