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Linky Wednesday - the one where I grapple with my NetGalley queue

My NetGalley queue is relatively short at the moment - only ten books, to be read between now and January. My "ratio" (the proportion of books read to books requested) is at 97 percent. The problem is that I have been reading fewer NetGalley books and more other books, and I looked away and a few deadlines came up. There is But for Fortune by Erin Miller Reid, a book that I should have read and reviewed last month. I've tried to read it twice, and  while I don't think it's a bad book, I could get into it. Then I realised - on the day it was due that I hadn't started Encore Performance by Leila Sales. It was an 831 Stories romance which meant it was only a couple of hundred pages long. I really enjoyed it, which made it a quick read. Now I'm reading The Throwaways by Greta Kelly which published yesterday. It's kind of like the TV show The Americans - deep cover Russian spies, double crossing, lots of action but also about the relationships. A lot of fun.


After that The Porcelain Sisters   a Daryl Gregory book that sounds completely bonkers - the description is A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant—and literally porcelain—sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies: a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses. I have loved everything I've read by Daryl Gregory, so I trust he can pull that off. After that, it's one more 831 Romance, and then I will be all cuaght up!

In crafting the spinning continues, but looks much the same. 


The dress has grown immensely - 

I only have the second half of the second sleeve to go, so I should get that done tonight. It's probably going to be too warm to wear it until next winter, but I have had fun knitting it. After this it's on to summer knits, small knits and charity knitting. 

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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