Hello, everyone! It’s been both a busy and a quiet week, in weird ways. But hey, now I’m with my partner in Belgium, I have a document that affirms I’ve never been married, and okay, I should be doing my final assignment for my course, but other than that, I can spend a good amount of time just reading and recharging for the next week!
And I have books (new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books).
New books
I’m a wuss, so Hex might be a bad choice, but I’m intrigued with the buzz about it and the translation stuff. A lot of the other stuff was fairly random, just picked up because it interested me in Brussels’ Sterling Books. I came to Belgium with only 22 books… this makes a start at making up for it!
Books finished this week:
Reviews this week:
–Rat Queens: Demons, by Kurtis J. Wiebe et al. I think this is my last volume of Rat Queens; it just didn’t come together for me. 2/5 stars
–Murder on a Midsummer Night, by Kerry Greenwood. Fun, though typical of the Phryne books. 3/5 stars
–Bone and Jewel Creatures, by Elizabeth Bear. An interesting novella, with an aged protagonist and some neat magic. 4/5 stars
–The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter, by Rod Duncan. Fun set-up, and I’m intrigued enough to read the other books. 3/5 stars
–Flashback Friday: A History of the World in 100 Objects, by Neil MacGregor. A lovely book which made me really eager to go back to the British Museum. Which I did, not too long ago. 5/5 stars
Other posts:
–ShelfLove Update and May TBR: what it says on the tin, with lots of statistics!
How’s everyone else been? Any exciting news?
If it’s not a private matter, can you tell us why you need a document stating you’ve never been married?!
Heaps of interesting books there!
I needed to kill some time in Bath on Thursday so I wandered into the Oxfam 2nd hand store…and came out with five books; Mount TBR well over 200 volumes again…
So I can get married!
It was a very good sojourn in the bookshop. I just let myself get whatever was interesting, which was nice.
Hahaha, mine’s still over 1000, so you’re okay.
Wowzas! Congrats!
Thanks! We have so much paperwork to do… Getting my documents translated, for a start. Gah.
I remember Belgium as being excessively bureaucratic…
So far, it seems like a lot of paperwork but fairly straightforward. We’ll see!
Strict proceedings huh?
I can’t wait what you think of Rae Carson’s newest trilogy. I’m still on the fence about continuing the series. We’ll see. I hope you enjoy Cruel Beauty 😉
I loved Le Guin’s Lavinia, but still doing a cha-cha with her Earthsea series 😀 At least if I like them, I’ve got them all on hand already… right? 😉 Of course I’m just trying to justify why I bought them already.
Thanks for stopping by btw 🙂
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I haven’t read anything by Rae Carson before, so I’m intrigued. Looking forward to trying it! I actually finished Cruel Beauty this week — that section is all books I finished. I’m not sure yet what I think of it… letting it settle.
I love pretty much everything by Le Guin. These were rereads for me, though not my favourites in the series.
Thanks for returning the visit!
I hope you’re having a great time in Belgium! *waves* I’ve never actually been anywhere on mainland Europe which is bizarre when I live in the UK! Tons of places I want to see! Enjoy your reading and have a lot of fun together!
Mostly just relaxing, so far! I’ve only been to France, Belgium and Italy; normally, I’m such a homebody.
I know it’s been well received/reviewed, but I didn’t care for Hex at all – cool concept, poor execution.
Hmm, that’s sad. I wonder if part of that is because it’s been translated, though; sometimes things work much better in context.
I enjoyed Star Touched Queen a lot. You got some interesting books. I hope you love all of your new books.
I’ve been hearing good things! Thanks for dropping by.
So much awesomeness. I really enjoyed Hex, one of the only few horror books that genuinely creeped me out. I also LOVED Walk on Earth a Stranger, I can’t wait to hear what you think! The Star-Touched Queen was a gorgeous little novel too, I don’t think it’ll be for everyone but I really enjoyed it. I love your haul this week!
Oh dear, and I’m such a wuss! Better not read it while my partner’s out… Thanks for dropping by!
I have got to get my hands on a copy oh Hex. Wonderful collection this week!
It seems to be everywhere at the moment! Hope you enjoy it when you get chance to pick it up.
I can bear anything as long as there are books <– how true! I feel the same way too.
Enjoy your books and hope you'll have a good weekend 🙂
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It’s actually a quote from one of my favourite books, Jo Walton’s Among Others. I do love it! Thanks for dropping by.
Nice haul this week – quite a few of these are new to me. Hope you enjoy!
Here’s my StS & Recap
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Thanks for dropping by! It was a good haul.
Oh! I loved so many of these! The Star-Touched Queen, Cruel Beauty, Walk on Earth a Stranger. The first two are such great fantasy novels. I hope you enjoy all of your new books!
Have a fabulous week. 🙂
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I enjoyed Cruel Beauty, though I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to write about it in my review!
Great haul this week! I’ve only heard of one or two of them but I hope you love them all!!
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Thanks for dropping by! Hope you have a good week.