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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.  

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  1. Kym10 June, 2026

    The scarf is just lovely! (And it looks so happy there, enjoying the piano bar. . . )

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  2. Bonnie Reads and Writes10 June, 2026

    I love the scarf! Enjoy your reading. Here's my WWW: https://bonniereadsandwrites.com/2026/06/10/www-wednesdays/

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  3. Gale Zucker11 June, 2026

    Piano bar knitting sounds like fun! That scarf has been in my queue for a while, love it in your hand spun.

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  4. BibliophileBree11 June, 2026

    That Ben Reeves book has a pretty cover! https://bibliophilebree.blogspot.com/2026/06/www-wednesday-12.html

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