This week was a good week for reading, as you can see! And for only the fifth time ever, I have no new books to showcase and can instead show off the ones I’ve finished reading. I didn’t even feature the full covers this time as I normally do for an Unstacking week cause there’s just so many! Twelve of these have been on my TBR for at least a year before I finally got round to them, so it really is good progress.
So please don’t tell me to enjoy my new books! Let me bask in being good.
Books finished this week:
Reviews posted this week:
–Hasty Death, by M.C. Beaton. Fun enough, but it really isn’t anything special. 2/5 stars
–So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane. I think I came to this at the wrong age — I’d probably have loved it when I was younger. 1/5 stars
–Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional, by David Waltham. Solid science and an interesting discussion of whether life is likely to be common or not in the universe, but I think we really don’t have enough data at all to actually come to a conclusion about how lucky or not we are. 3/5 stars
–Saga Volume One, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. A reread so I can get on with the series! Love it pretty much the same as before, especially the art. 4/5 stars
–Blood Trail, by Tanya Huff. Fun and brings in more supernatural creatures, etc. It’s fairly light comfort reading for me. 3/5 stars
–All For Love, by Jane Aiken Hodge. A good Heyer-esque romp, with some nice touches (the perfect switch isn’t perfect after all, etc). I enjoyed it a lot and will be reading more of Jane Aiken Hodge’s work. 4/5 stars
–Flashback Friday: The Song of Rhiannon, by Evangeline Walton. This book isn’t as powerful as the previous book, which is a bit of a relief after how harrowing that was. There’s a lot of good stuff here, and Manawydan remains an awesome character. 4/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Books I Was Forced to Read. It was a freebie week, so I mined for an old theme and covered books I had to read for class or research.
–ShelfLove Update. My update on the reading challenge I’m doing, which also includes my TBR for this month, as usual.
How’s everyone been? Good reading week? Anything exciting joined your piles?
WOW, talk about reading! GO YOU! WOO \o/
And all these covers are very tempting besides, ooh. The only one I’ve read is Squirrel Girl! And I was pleasantly surprised at how good that series is.
…At some point I should read Saga myself, but I just get so distracted by so many other good things, oops. I have *a* Tanya Huff book around somewhere I should also read, come to think about it.
I’m not surprised at the Young Wizard’s series being meh. I liked it well enough when I was younger, but it wasn’t really rereadable for me a few years back, and now I’m reading the new books just because so many people I know also read them, and I want to be conversant. *shrugs*
I knoooow. It was a very good week for reading, and I’ve started this week pretty well, too. Hurrah.
I’m enjoying Squirrel Girl, it’s just… silly light fun at a time it’s very much needed. Saga is great, you totally should try it.
Wow, this is amazing! I definitely need some of your unstacking-the-shelves talents to rub off on me 🙂 Good on you, I am cheering you on!
Thank you! I have a long journey tomorrow, so maybe… On the other hand, I also have a lot of reviews to write.