Happy Wednesday! I’ve got a few updates to share so figured I’d post a quick Unraveled Wednesday post. Thanks to Kat over at As Kat Knits for hosting this link tree each week.
I finished my socks! These are just some basic 72 stitch socks using some White Birch Fiber Arts self striping yarn. I did a rounded toe and a spiral afterthought heel, both of which I pulled from a pattern I tested several years ago. I’m super pleased with how well I was able to match up the stripes! I could have put the heels about a quarter inch down, so there’re a smidge big but other than that I love them. And I’m halfway done with my Musselburgh, I just started the second color earlier today. I LOVED how this yarn pooled, it’s not self striping but it looks like it in the body of the hat. I’ve also put in a few rows on my sweater, but that’s looking the same as it has, so no photo updates on that.
I’ve kept up reading almost every day in February, and I’m really enjoying it. Someone mentioned on my last post that I’m reading a lot of diverse books, and that’s true and something I really enjoy doing. In addition to supporting historically underrepresented authors, I also find reading diverse books makes what I read a lot more fun. A fantasy world based on China is going be different than one based on Africa or based in Mesoamerica, even within the same genre of a finding yourself fantasy epic. So I’m really enjoying exporing those types of books with a good dash of historical fiction and sports non-fiction thrown in there.
 | I finished Son of the Storm. I enjoyed it and will eventually get to the second one, but I finished it when I was out Friday night and didn’t have wifi on my nook and didn’t want to read it on my phone. I also need a little bit of a break from this world. It’s really interesting with a lot of parallels about racism/ xenophobia and authoritarianism, so it’s a bit more heavy. It was also very gory. I didn’t dislike it, the characters are interesting and complex and I’m invested in what happens next, but I need a bit of a break from the world. |
 | I enjoyed The Lost Dreamer. It’s funny, I got like 70% of the way through in 2023 but forgot a lot of what happened after about halfway through. I think I would have enjoyed this one a lot more had I read and not listened to it. While I appreciated having different narrators for each character, it got a bit confusing to flip back and forth between them, and there were so many characters to keep track of, which I found hard to keep track of without seeing their names. I did a lot of “wait, is that the same person as that person” as I was listening. It also ended on a cliffhanger setting up what is supposed to be a second book but it doesn’t appear the author is active anymore so that’s a bit disappointing, because I thought the world created was really interesting. |
  | I started The Night and its Moon at some point last year, and stopped reading when I lost my reading mojo. But when I finished Son of the Storm Friday night I opened it again. I probably should have started from the beginning, but I remembered enough to finish it off and start the second book. I can’t quite figure out how I feel about these yet. |
 | This book was included on Seattle Public Library’s list for Black History Month. It’s an interesting premise of a Black doctress in Victorian London. It touches on slavery and privilege. I’ve got about 45 minutes left of this one, and so I’ll probably write a bit more later, but I’ll say that the narrator makes some choices that makes it hard for me to get behind her fully. Interested to see how it will end though. |
Thanks for reading, and let me know if you have any book recommendations you think I’d like! You can find me on Storygraph as backstagekath if you’d like to connect!
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