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Linky Wednesday - the one where I consider naming conventions

 Sometimes I struggle with naming these Wednesday posts. At the beginning of 2024 I tried numbering them (1/24, 2/25 etc) I was considering trying that again, but when I went to look for those posts, I discovered that I like all my posts with the silly, best I can find a theme titles.

This week I finished The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard, and started  Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. 

All my friends have read this romance, and when I found it in Kobo Plus I was quite pleased. I'm enjoying the book, which is also a nice change. Next up is another Kobo Plus book (I've only got another two weeks on my current subscription, and then I'm going to catch up with my NetGalley books).  I've got a few to choose from, mostly romance and women's fiction. I'll decide when I get there.

In audio I finished The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage (well read but told in a really repetitious way). I decided that, since I don't seem to be enjoying fiction that much, to listen to a memoir. I had Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl by Claire Dederer in my TBR. I got through it in three days! It was one of those books I could just listen to. Thoughtful memoir, somewhat reflective of my own experience. I'm doing filing at work, which is really boring but a great opportunity to listen to podcasts and audiobooks. Now I'm listening to The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell which appears to be urban fantasy. I'm all of two chapters in, but its looking promising.


In knitting I started not one, but two new projects.

I cast on Moby Sweater Man by PetiteKnit for Leon. It's an all over cable pattern and it took me THREE tries to get the pattern established. It's still at the 'I need to sitt in one place with the chart' stage:

Because I needed something more portable for knit night and some other adventures that are coming up on the weekend, I also cast on Stephen West's Colour Craving:

in orange and lilac, because I was really craving colour! So far having two projects going is working well.

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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