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Linky Wednesday - the one where everything is upside down

Monday was a public holiday, so we had the day off. Then Tuesday I worked from home because it was mant to be 45 degrees at 4pm when I usually leave work, and then I went in on Wednesday because I don't like to work from home all the time. So now I really have no idea what day of the week it is, except that I'm writing this post so it must be Wednesday!

I had a quiet long weekend - I said no to a number of social invitations, and saved myself for running and enjoying my new couch. It gave me plenty of reading time - I finished Traitor's Blade, loved it. I'm so glad it's the start of a quartet and I get to spend more time in that world. Then I finished a NetGalley review copy of The Duke's Secret by Sue Williams.  It started well, but I really didn't enjoy the second half. It's dual time period historic fiction about the Duke of Wellington, his housemaid / mistress and then one of their descendants. Both timelines are in present tense, and some of it just feels like a copy and paste of the Wikipedia entry for the Napoleonic wars.  

I got a library copy of Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, which I started at lunch today and am somehow a third of the way through. I guess it's a short book. I'm enjoying it so far. 

Then I'm going to read Redemption River the third in the Carter Brothers romance series .  I put a NetGalley request in for it yesterday and because of time differences I woke up this morning to an approval email, so that was a nice way to start the day.

I finished the audiobook of The Names by Florence Knapp. I have to catch my breath before starting my next audiobook, it was so good and intense and emotional. 

I'm still knitting a secret test knit. I took this photo yesterday.

Tonight I'm going to join the sleeves and body, and watch episode four of Heated Rivalry. The knitting of this is taking up all my energy, and while I've prepared everything I haven't started my next spinning project, which is going to be quite a big project. I'm just dedicating myself to the knitting right now.

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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