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Linky Wednesday - the one with a mission to read the backlist

I'm doing a little reading project where I read or delete all the old books in my GoodReads To Be Read. It's always at about 100, and never goes down because some books have been on there since 2018. Do I really want to read them? Let's find out.  I'm starting with Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sas, which is an LBTQ, YA thriller and has been on my TBR since Dan Savage recommended it in November 2020.

Prior to starting it I did (sort of) catch up with the NetGalley review books  -I read The Throwaways by Greta Kelly*. It started off as a really fun adventure situation, but went off the rails and ended up more stabby and silly than clever. Then I read The Porcelain Sisters* by Daryl Gregory. I've loved everything he's written and this was no exception. Then I read a Roxie Noir Loveless Brothers romance - Break the Rules. It's the third in the series and as expected it was excellent. The romance isn't limp, but it's not full of fake impediments and always lovely to visit withold friends. There are two covers - a typical romantic comedy cartoon one, and the one on my edition, that I much prefer.

I have now officially abandoned  But for Fortune by Erin Miller Reid* . I don't know if it was the formatting or the book itself, but I just could not get into it. At some point I had to walk away and stop worrying about it, so I've done that. After my read the backlist books I'll read another 831 Romance - First Famous Christmas by Carrie Wittmer.*                                             

In knitting, I'm making a summer cotton top for my mother. Bladlilje / Lily Leaf pattern by Lene Tøsti. I made one for myself in pink at the beginning of the year, and I think my mother will like this in blue. It's still a really fun, fast knit.


And I'm up to the plying on my spinning project. I've got a couple of hours more work on it, which I'm hoping to do before the weekend, when we are going away camping in a field. 


I'll be back on Friday with my weekend crafting plans and maybe the finished skein of yarn, if I really dedicate myself to it after work today.

All books marked with an * are digital review copies, provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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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