This week has been a library week…
Fiction
I don’t think I actually ever got round to reading The Hollow Hills, so I’m looking forward to it after enjoying The Crystal Cave more than I used to. I do actually own the whole trilogy, but it’s a massive hardback, so I got the library book for reading convenience. The Savage Knight sounds interesting; I think Abaddon books probably deserve a prize for the fake manuscript-provenance story around the story, which has seemingly caught some other reviewers out. Arthuriana, yay! Tooth and Claw, The Hero and the Crown and Labyrinth are rereads of varying quality; my brain seems to need something familiar right now.
Poetry
Padel is a great-great-great granddaughter of Darwin, so this was an interesting read, even if I didn’t love it. And I liked the idea of Carol Ann Duffy’s anthology, too — modern poetry in conversation with older. I’d been meaning to grab these for a while.
Non-fiction
Not exciting in the traditional way, perhaps, but it is nice to be preparing myself…
There is always a nice range of genres on your shelves! I’m not much of a fantasy reader though I have the first two Game of Thrones novels, picked up in a charity shop. When I finally get the series watched I’ll maybe try the books! Happy reading!
That’s the way I like it! I get some odd looks at the library/in bookshops because of it, sometimes… Haha.
Atrocity Archives! Have you read any of the other Laundry Files books? Or any other Stross at all?
I haven’t read any of the other Laundry books, but I have read a couple of other Stross books. Sadly, I want to like them but get frustrated with them. Review is up on Goodreads now, since I finished reading it yesterday — but it’ll be up here soon enough, too.
Nice haul – Gemmell is always a great read!
Here’s how I’m Stacking the Shelves this week.
Definitely agreed! And there seems to be so much of his stuff I haven’t read, too.
The Hero and the Crown is such an amazing book! I love Robin McKinley! Enjoy your haul 🙂
Happy reading!
My Stacking the Shelves
Me too! I loved getting to reread it; I enjoyed it a lot more on a second reading, which has actually happened a few times with McKinley.
Haven’t heard of these! I’ve only read a few Carol Ann Duffy, which was for English Lit, pretty interesting to dissect, haha. 🙂
Here’s mine
Kirsty @ StudioReads
Yeah, I first came across her work during my GCSEs, too! She’s a great poet.