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Linky Wednesday - the one that's bits and pieces

It's been a busy few weeks, in a very fun way. lots of shows, some travel, just a generally good time Last weekend we say two shows (one straight play, one musical), this week we are seeing four, including one that Leon's choir is putting on, a new Australian musial, a cabaret and a pole dancing competition. It's a lot of fun, and also busy, busy, busy.

I've still had time to read and craft though. The reading has included 5 short stories from Amazon's The Edge of Everything series of coming of age stories (I got them from NetGalley). They were all fine, but made me feel old and jaded. I did make some progress with my non-fiction reading and next Friday I will have a post up featuring three Object Lessons - Fist, Concrete and Laboratory. Now I'm reading Friends of Dorothy by Sandi Toksvig a LGBTQ women's fiction - if I had to classify it. It's the story of a couple who move into a house where the previous tenant, as old woman, has not actually left. I suspect it's going to be heartwarming! 

After that I will read Cherrywood by Jock Serong which is set in Melbourne in 1993. Leon enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to it. And the last two books I mentioned are NOT NetGalley reads. Everything else is, including the audiobook I'm listening to and loving The Quitters Club by Jessica Strawser, about four 40ish year old women who are making big changes to make their lives better.

In knitting I finished the shawl I've been working on for the last couple of weeks. It's blocking now and I'll get modelled photos over the weekend. Now I've started Love Note. 

It's on massive 6mm needles, so I don't think it will take all that long! The picture above is of the knitting I did in just one night.

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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