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Linky Wednesday - the one where I'm tired

 I had a really great weekend, and was too tired to write a post about it! We celebrated Leon's birthday, and went out for Sri Lankan food and then saw Hades Town. Excellent.

The reading has been up and down. I read (and finished in three days) Theory and Practice, an excellent coming of age (and lots of other things too) book set in my home suburb. Loved it. Now I'm reading a NetGalley review book Rumoured by Kelly Mancaruso, 

I love a face cover. Unfortunately the book itself is a bit all over the place - half way through it went form third person narration to first person, and then back. I think  it's meant to be edgy, but it just feels weird. So far the "twists" are more like slow bends, and I don't really care what happens to anyone, because I'm too aware of the form - in between the narration there are tweets and article and interviews. Unfortunate these tend to repeat what we already know, so it's a bit tedious. Next up is Odin's Spear by Skyla Dawn Cameron, the second in the Livi Talbot series. 

In knitting I worked on my shawl, and have nearly made the halfway point:

And also a quick set of hat and mitts for my brother-in-law, which is blocking now. 

He wore out his last mitts, which I gave him in 2019. If you wear the knitting until it falls apart, you get more!

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 on BlueSky as Sharondblk.

 I'm joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday, Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading.and 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. Emily26 June, 2025

    The knitting looks good.

    I hope that Rumoured picks up for you. My reading has been a bit slow this week. Not only was I struggling through a book, but it has been so hot and set to get hotter.

    Have a great week!

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
    My post:
    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/www-wednesday-currently-reading-finished-reading-reading-next-142/

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  2. Marg30 June, 2025

    Love reading books set in Melbourne!

    Have a great week!

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  3. Kathy Martin01 July, 2025

    Nice looking knitting. You have a mixed bag of books. I prefer a straight-forward third person narrative and find I tend to skip over other stuff. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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