This is a very quickly put together post, as I am on a tiny laptop in the middle of moving house! It hasn’t been a terrible week for reading, even though I had an assignment due as well, and I (gasp) haven’t bought any books!
Books read this week:
Reviews this week:
–Wolves, by Simon Ings. Not a fan of this one, at all. Sometimes I couldn’t even tell what the individual sentences were supposed to mean. 1/5 stars
–Wolfsbane Winter, by Jane Fletcher. This is fairly typical fantasy, except that it features a lesbian romance… and it’s maybe not exactly fantasy. 3/5 stars
–A Civil Contract, by Georgette Heyer. This isn’t the most typical of Heyer’s romances, but I really liked it — it’s more about the process of negotiation and habituation that comes when two people live together and have to make their lives together. 4/5 stars
–Tropic of Serpents, by Marie Brennan. A favourite series reread, so no surprises that I liked this a lot. 5/5 stars
–Dreadful Skin, by Cherie Priest. Intriguing ideas — a nun hunting a werewolf — but sometimes shaky execution. 3/5 stars
–The Stress of Her Regard, by Tim Powers. I’ve tried to read this a few times now, and finally I did finish it. But I’m still not a great fan. It might help if I were more of a fan of the Romantic poets… 2/5 stars
–Flashback Friday: The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps, by Michel Faber. The most powerful thing about this book — something I remember years after reading it — is the feeling of anxiety. Ughh. 2/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Tuesday: This week I recommended stories with romance for those who might be reluctant to read romance as a genre.
How’s everyone doing? Anything exciting going on? Any books you just can’t wait to read?
I dread to think what it would be like to move house with my book and dvd collection! It would take a whole fleet of moving vans! Hope you get sorted quickly and get some fun reading done.
I’m a bit used to it from my student years, and luckily, only half my collection was really here in the first place, since I lived half-here and half with my parents. Still, the van is mostly full of books!
I am so far behind in my reading/reviewing. I knew it would be a lot of work to take on a beta read, and the author has been great about the feedback I’ve provided, but it’s certainly a huge time commitment. Looking forward to wrapping that up this weekend.
Eek, I bet! Has it been an enjoyable thing to do, all the same?
Congrats on your continued unstacking! I am currently slightly ahead of my reading/reviewing, though probably not as far ahead as I’d like.
It wasn’t really intentional, this week, haha. And I’ve just made up for it… oops.