Happy Saturday! It’s been a bit of a bad week for me, just cause I haven’t felt very well… but hey, there’s books!
Received to review:
Thank you to Netgalley and Tachyon for these! I read Passing Strange by Ellen Klages last week, and definitely want to read more of her work.
Bought:
My wife bought me Norse Mythology to cheer me up because I’m still not well, and Four Roads Cross was only a couple of quid on the Kindle store. I want the whole set of Gladstone’s books someday in paperback, for those beautiful covers. But for now, I have the ebooks!
Finished this week:
Not as much reading as I’d hoped, really. I’ve been so tired! A sneak peek at my ratings…
Four stars to… Late Eclipses.
Three stars to… Deadly Companions and The Death of Caesar.
Two stars to… Reading Like A Writer.
Reviews posted this week:
–A History of the World in 12 Maps, by Jerry Brotton. Unfortunately not for me; rather dry, and not quite the focus I’d been hoping for. Might be good for someone who is more interested in maps and cartography, though. 2/5 stars
–One Plus One Equals One, by John Archibald. No, he’s not bad at maths — he’s talking about the history of symbiosis which gave animal cells mitochondria (for one example). Not very revolutionary to me as I think my mother excitedly told me about this when I was a teen and it was a newish theory, but interesting stuff. 3/5 stars
–The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis. Not a fan of this one at all, sadly. The kids are quarrelsome and Rillian makes a bad first impression. Still, there’s Puddleglum. 2/5 stars
–Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, by Seanan McGuire. Works very well as a novella — McGuire has the trick of it, I think. Just enough background and such to make the world interesting, while focusing on the plot. 4/5 stars
–Memory of Water, by Emmi Itäranta. Slow, lyrical, a personal and quiet post-apocalypse. I enjoyed it a lot. 4/5 stars
–The Masked City, by Genevieve Cogman. A reread, which of course I enjoyed a lot. 4/5 stars
–Hatchepsut, by Joyce Tyldesley. There isn’t enough information about this pharaoh, but what she has, Tyldesley presents and organises well. 4/5 stars
–The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis. There are things about this that I like, but mostly… nope, nope, nope. 1/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books I Can See From My Chair. And my thoughts on them. I didn’t have enough brain cells free this week to do anything more complex!
–What are you reading Wednesday. What it says on the tin — a reading update per what I was reading and thinking about on Wednesday.
The Max Gladstone books aren’t quite my usual kind of read but I love the covers and I’m kind of intrigued by them. Might just look at grabbing the first book to see what they are like…have a good week and hope you feel better soon!
They are really beautiful covers, but I don’t know that the stories would be your thing!
I’ve started in on Max Gladstone, and they’re not bad stories, I just don’t think I was in the right mood at the time. I suspect I’ll go back to them at some point.
I enjoyed the first book, but it’s been a while since I read it…
How do you post so many book reviews at once?! I am interested to pick up the Neil Gaiman book
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I read about a book a day, so I have lots of reviews scheduled! Haha. And Neil Gaiman’s new book was quite fun.
Ooh, I’d like to read more Ellen Klages – I don’t often do well with short stories/anthologies though or else I would have been all over Wicked Wonders.
Yeah, I’m thinking I’d probably like a longer work better… we’ll see, I am enjoying the stories.
Awww, Nikki! I hope you’re on the mend! I had an off week as well. *passes cheesecake*
The cover of Norse Mythology is gorgeous! I don’t know much about the book and I haven’t read anything by Gaiman (oops?) but I’m curious about that one. I’m sure the finished copy is very, very shiny. 😀
I hope you enjoy all of your new books! Have a fabulous week. 🙂
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Norse Mythology is a very pretty book! Thanks for dropping by!
I’m really loving the cover for Norse Mythology! Hope you liked it since I see you’ve read it already.
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It was pretty good! And it is a really pretty book.