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Linky Wednesday - the one with the (bookish) ups and downs

 Things looked like they were back on track after reading the wrong book last week. I read (and loved) Sarah Painter's The Gilded Nest. But then I am started The Divorcetante, for Netgalley and I hated it. The writing was fine, but I hated the plot. I stopped 20 percent it, which I dislikedoing for review books, because what if it gets a whole lot better. I only left a review on NetGalley, and moved on. 

I'm going to cancel Kobo Plus after this month, and focus on review books, library books and the dozen books that are on my Kobo, some of which I brought with me when I switched from Kindle nearly a year ago. So, for the next two weeks it's going to be Kobo plus all the time. I'm halfway through Solomon's Seal by Skyla Dawn Cameron. It's a ludicrous romp of a sci-fi adventure novel, and is giving me very strong Matthew Riley vibes, but with a single mother as our kick-arse hero. It's the first of a series of (so far) six books, and it's always nice to discover a new series.

I'm currently listening to  a NetGalley review copy of The South by Tash Aw. It's very atmospheric, with the perfect narrator. I've only got a couple of hours to go - as I mentioned last week, I'm spending my work days filing, so I suspect I'll get it finished today. Then it's Hello Universe, It's Me: How I scheduled a breakdown and manifested a new life by Deepika Sandhu, which sounds a bit like a self-help biography. I'm in the mood to switch genres, so let's see how that goes.
Unsurprisingly I'm still knitting my Wool and Honey jumper:

I'm 35 rounds from splitting at the underarms, but they are long rounds. And it's garter stitch in the round, which means that every second round is purled. Gross. As soon as I split I'm knitting the rest of this flat. Garter stitch with purling offends me. 

And that's my week. 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. Sonia29 May, 2025

    At this rate, you're going to finish Wool & Honey before me! Garter stitch in the round is the pits. So you're going to knit the body flat then seam?

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  2. Marg02 June, 2025

    I need to focus on my library books. All of a sudden I seem to have a lot out and I am not reading any of them!

    Have a great week.

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  3. ClaireLouisa02 June, 2025

    Solomon's Seal sounds good, it's weird how you can only buy the ebooks on kobo and not on amazon. I don't have a kobo device and reading the series on my phone would be annoying. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series.

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  4. Kathy Martin03 June, 2025

    I had a DNF this week too. Your knitting looks great. Solomon's Seal sounds good. I've been rereading for my audiobook selection and trying to concentrate on lowering the mountain that is my review stack. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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