So I’ve spent most of the last week on my honeymoon, in Dublin, and I’m here to tell you they have some amazing bookshops. I strongly recommend Dubray Books on Grafton Street, Chapters on Parnell Street, and Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street. My wife would like to put in a word for a lovely knitting shop, too: if you’re in Dublin and you like yarn and knitting and friendly awesome people, we loved This Is Knit, in a shopping centre on South William Street.
And if you like archaeology, particularly Irish/Celtic stuff, I think I can also recommend the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology. They currently have an exhibit of Irish bog bodies, which is worth a look.
But now for my haul! Not all of them are from Dublin; I got given some as wedding and birthday presents. A+++ work, friends. <3
Books:
There’s a lot that I’m excited about here, or have been meaning to read for ages! Especially Guy Gavriel Kay’s Children of Earth and Sky; I was doing a reread of his work in order, but that means I still haven’t got to River of Stars or this new one. Hmm…
Comics:
Yep, these two were listed on my Top Ten Tuesday post about books I wanted to grab right away. Hurrah! I wanted Spider-Women and The New Avengers: A.I.M: Everything Is New, but I didn’t find the latter and I could only find the former for a ridiculous price.
Books finished this week:
Reviews posted this week:
–One Solstice Night, by Elora Bishop. A reread so I could get on with reading this series finally. This is sweet and basically a little bit of spun sugar. 3/5 stars
–The Lifted Veil, by George Eliot. A surprisingly speculative novella from a classic author. 3/5 stars
–Broken, by Susan Bigelow. We know the main character feels broken, because she’s renamed herself Broken, the book is called Broken, and she tells us that she’s broken. Brokenly. 1/5 stars
–Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees. A classic fantasy that doesn’t feel like the stuff that is traditional for the genre now, and is very beautifully written. I loved it. 5/5 stars
–Geek Feminist Revolution, by Kameron Hurley. I do love Hurley’s essays and her no-bullshit way of writing, but I wished there was more new content in this collection. A lot of it was familiar. 4/5 stars
–Brother Jacob, by George Eliot. A short and rather moralistic story that really didn’t demonstrate the greatness of Eliot’s prose for me. 1/5 stars
-Flashback Friday: The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. I read this for the first time when I was already 20. I felt I’d missed out! 5/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Tuesday: Pet Peeves. My pet peeves in fiction, let me show you them!
How’s everyone been? I think I’ve caught up on the blogs I usually follow, but if you have something you think I’ll be interested in, link away! I’d hate to miss out.
I have so many series to catch up on that I’ll need to reread the first books in each to remind myself what happened! At the moment I’m not getting much reading done so I’ll get back into it after the Olympics! Dublin is one the many places I wanted to visit but I doubt that travel will feature much for me now! Hope you both had a great time!
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Yeah, I have that issue too! And hey, it’s never too late to travel… Dublin does have some great bookshops. *tempts*
Oh oh I really want to read the Waking Fire!! DRAGONS. Much love. 😀
I hear good things!
I SOOOOOO know what you mean–I keep buying?! books?!? but I also keep getting review books, and I have no tiiiiime, and… we all need to come together and make time turners a real thing. That would be soooo much helpful! Also, great haul–I don’t really know any of these books, but some of those covers are awesome sauce. And congratulations on your recent wedding!
I hope you enjoy your recent book acquisitions! Here’s my Stacking the Shelves, if you’re interested in stopping by–no worries if you’re not, though! Happy book-ing to you!
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Yes, we totally need time turners! Though we’d probably all read way too much that way, and stint on sleep…
Thank you for dropping by!
I feel bad that I haven’t finished Children of Earth and Sky yet, but it just hasn’t hooked me like most of his books do. The Waking Fire was fantastic, however, and one of my favorite reads this summer.
Oh no! My wife is reading it and she seems pretty hooked. Fingers crossed!
Omigosh I’m getting all grabby hands looking at your book haul, you got so much great stuff! I really enjoyed The Waking Fire. And I’ll agree with Bob that Children of Earth and Sky probably isn’t GGK’s best, but it was still pretty solid. The man cannot seem to write a bad book!
My wife’s enjoying Children of Earth and Sky, so I’m hopeful! I didn’t love Under Heaven as much as I hoped, so hopefully my expectations are more in line now.
The Waking Fire looks soooooooo good! I still don’t know in which edition I’ll buy it, both US and UK are superb!
Captain Marvel is my fave (one of them at least, I have so many!) and Spider-woman is also amazing, cannot wait for you to read it!!
After everything I heard, I grabbed the first one I found! Haha.
I just got a Captain Marvel tsum tsum plushie. I love squishing her! (I also have Captain America, of course.)
Wow! These covers are so beautiful! I love comics, so I should check out Captain Marvel! Ms. Marvel is one of my favorites! Have you read it?
~Sara
I love Captain Marvel — she was one of the original Ms Marvels! I recommend Kelly Sue DeConnick’s run particularly. I do read Ms Marvel too!