Linky Wedneday - the one with the return

As I posted yesterday I'm back from the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. We had such a good time. While we were away I finished reading a romance - Riverbend by Karis Walsh. It was fine - I wonder if i'm struggling with the straightforwardness of romances like this. I followed it up with Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison, a speculative fiction novella on the concept of 'what if we cloned the American founding fathers and brought them up as close to their original upbringings as possible". It's a book that is clever, unsettling and sometimes deeply funny. then, instead of reading the next book in my NetGalley TBR which is an 831 Stories romance, I choose Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt the debut novel of Ben Reeves, which is about Travis, who is Death. It's a very beautiful book.

I've nearly finished it and after that I'm going on a non-fiction kick, because I'm finding meeting new people (characters) tiring, so I'm going to learn some stuff instead.

I'm listening to The Quitter's Club by Jessica Strawser, a novel about 4 midlife women making changes to their lives. So far, I'm really enjoying it.

All of these books are from NetGalley - I've have received such good books from them recently.

In knitting I mentioned last week that I was about to start Night Lights by Andrea Mowry. It's a slip stitch scarf, and the pattern is perfect to knit when out and about - perhaps at a piano bar:

I got to the exact half-way point on the plane home, and now the rows are getting shorter again. As usually happens when i knit with my handspun, I'm reminded of how fun and rewarding it is to do so.

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 linking up 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.

Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

We are heading off for some camping and hiking and general R&R on Friday, so I'm currently in planning and preparing mode. Of course that mainly means deciding what to knit - I'm going to make the Old Romance cardigan by Joji Locatelli. The yarn is wound and I'm ready to go. I completed Leon's Winter Set (2023) just in time, and it's currently blocking. I'm reading Georgette Hayer's Fredrica , which I am enjoying very much. Regency romance is so sweet and, unlike current romance offerings, I know it won't suddenly tumble into gynaecological territory! For unexplained reasons, NetGalley is offering some Georgette Heyer books at the moment - (maybe it's re-release?) and I'm taking this opportunity to read a few more of them And that's my week in knitting and reading. To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as Sharondoublekni t and on GoodReads as Sharondblk . I'm joining in with Kat ...

Yarnalong - the one with the final bit of transport

Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy. And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...

Why Andrea Mowry, why? (A rant and a rather nice finished object)

As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat. The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...

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