Tah-daahhh! The world didn’t think I could do it, but lo and behold, I have actually gone a week without buying, borrowing or requesting any new books. Thus, unStacking the Shelves: displaying the books I managed to finish this week.
Eveeery week, people seem to get confused and tell me to enjoy books which I’ve actually finished reading, and I sense that’s gonna happen a ton this week. So please! I have no new books to enjoy! I sort of wish I did, but nope. I love getting comments, but if you’re not going to bother reading the post — and I do clearly mark the sections in these posts — please don’t bother commenting…
Books read this week:
A busy week, as you see — I’ve been doing a lot of crocheting, so I’ve been listening to a bunch of audiobooks, and I’ve also done a fair bit of other reading. Though a lot of it has been rereading, since I found the Joseph Hansen books available for Kindle, to my glee.
Reviews posted this week:
–Spider-Gwen: Greater Power, by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez and Chris Visions. With great power comes great responsibility, whether you’re Peter Parker or Gwen Stacy. And sometimes you get blamed for things you couldn’t have helped. Greater Power follows Gwen as she struggles with her reputation for trouble… and also includes a visit from an awesome version of Captain America. 4/5 stars
–Batgirl: A Knight Alone, by Kelley Puckett et al. I love the idea of Cassandra Cain, but unfortunately the execution hasn’t worked for me at all in these comics. 3/5 stars
–The Undivided Past, by David Cannadine. Do you wanna build a strawman? 2/5 stars
–Magic Slays, by Ilona Andrews. Chaos continues in Atlanta, and no one is surprised. 4/5 stars
–Uprooted, by Naomi Novik. It can be a bit too slow in places, but for the most part I loved Uprooted; it grows out of fairytales, but with a very serious slant. 4/5 stars
–Reading in the Brain, by Stanislaw Dehaene. Distractingly, the model of reading posited here doesn’t fit me very well. Nonetheless, I found it an interesting read and well backed up by the evidence. 4/5 stars
–Flashback Friday: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, by Alison Bartlett. I had serious questions about the ethics of the writer, and I don’t think this book is actually about a love of books — certainly not as I would understand it. Rather, it’s a love of objects, which happen to be books. 2/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Tuesday: Back to School. A bunch of non-fiction recommendations for you all!
–The Princess Who Didn’t Eat Cake, by Lynn O’Connacht. A promo post for a friend’s book.
–ShelfLove Update and TBR. An update on my reading goals, and some goals for the next month.
How’s everyone’s week been? Anything exciting going on?
ETA: May be slow to reply to comments and visit you back today; my baby bunny just died. Sorry.
How was the epigenetics book? Would I understand it?
I think so! I listened to it as an audiobook, which made it a bit more difficult to hold onto the facts, but there were clear explanations of stuff I didn’t know yet, so I think the rest is probably well explained too. Lisa followed it, too, and even thought at times it was pretty simple, despite no genetics/biology background beyond listening to me babble.
Who is Lisa?
My wife!
Ah! A discerning person of taste, evidently!
High five, NIkki! That’s really awesome, and you should be very proud of yourself 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend and happy reading.
Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookviews recently posted…Bought Bagged and Wrapping it Up #149
Thank you! I am inordinately pleased with myself, really — you wouldn’t think it’d be so hard not to buy books… Thanks for dropping by!
When you have an unstacking week, I don’t know whether to be happy for you or hit you with the hardback version of The Order of the Phoenix for having the restraint that I currently lack! *grins*
I’m sorry to hear about your poor wee bunny. I was hoping that there was going to be better news on that front. Sending you both a big hug for your loss. <<>>
chucklesthescot recently posted…Stacking the Shelves #147
Ha. I’m really tempted to go on a book spree now, so maybe next week you’ll have less urge to thwack me!
Thanks. It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster.
Congrats on reading that many books. I don’t know if I would have the restraint to do that. Looks like you got a ton of wonderful books this week.
Grace @ Books of Love
I got no books this week, that’s the point! Just the reading, admittedly helped by listening to audiobooks while crocheting. Thanks for dropping by, anyway!
Hey, no new books is sometimes the best thing! It looks like you got a chance to get through some other books on your TBR. I’ve not tried audiobooks but I want to give one a chance at some point, see how the experience goes for me. 😀
Have a fabulous weekend! 🙂
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But getting new books is so much fun… I know, I’m terrible. I do enjoy audiobooks, but only if I have something else to do with my hands at the same time.
Unstacking the shelves is always an achievement, and a week of no new additions to the TBR doubly so if it’s an exercise of self-restraint. Mine is not always so strong 🙂
I doubt I’m going to be very good in the week ahead… I seem to have come into the possession of some Amazon vouchers.
They’re all new to me I confess but happy reading!
Thanks! I read all these last week, and they were indeed mostly happy reading.
Ha, I actually checked to see if anyone would STILL congratulate you on new books despite your warning. 😀 I guess people skim-read a lot.
I’m sorry about your bunny, that’s really sad.
I know I should be happy to get comments at all, but it does get on my nerves a bit! I always try to leave meaningful comments, myself.
Thanks.