Wow, it’s been another Unstacking week! Can you believe it? I really can’t, especially since I know I have a ton of Amazon vouchers. I’m just finding it so hard to make decisions! As soon as I think “yeah, I’ll get this”, I think about saving my vouchers for the next thing I desperately want… Which is good for my TBR pile, I guess, but not so fun for instant gratification.
Anyway, here’s what I’ve been reading this week. Once again: please don’t tell me to enjoy them! I’ve read them already! Instead, let’s celebrate me clearing the stacks a bit.
Books read this week:
I thought I’d read more this week, but I guess I’ve been really busy. Oh well!
Reviews posted this week:
–Gillespie and I, by Jane Harris. Slow but intriguing, sort of a mystery, with a very unreliable narrator. 4/5 stars
–Home: A Time Traveller’s Tales from Britain’s Prehistory, by Francis Pryor. I found this less coherent than other work I’ve read by Pryor, but it’s an interesting survey of what homes were like — even if it doesn’t stick that closely to home life. 3/5 stars
–Saga Volume Four, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Married life is not a perfect dream for Alana and Marko, even without the whole intergalactic fugitives thing… Entertaining, as always. 4/5 stars
–Magic Rises, by Ilona Andrews. It has a bit too much of Kate and Curran being total idiots at each other, but it also goes further into the plotline about Kate’s father, which is very welcome — and this volume definitely brings the feels. 4/5 stars
–Feed, by Mira Grant. This was a reread for me and I appreciated it a lot more this time. Although it is weird reading about such a reasonable Republican candidate when you think of the current political climate! And of course, there’s zombies… 4/5 stars
–The Heart of Aces, by various. This is a collection of romance stories about asexual people having relationships and compromising and all those lovely things. The quality is very uneven, but it’s nice that such a collection exists. 2/5 stars
–The Incorruptibles, by John Hornor Jacobs. Some cool concepts, but it doesn’t come together well for me. 2/5 stars
–Flashback Friday: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Like the other Ishiguro books I’ve read since, this has an easy pace — deceptively calm. I found it very skillfully written, and very worth the time. 4/5 stars
Enjoy your books! By reading them again… 😉
Pft! The only one I’m likely to reread is Strong Poison, maaaaybe The House of Shattered Wings, and neither of them soon!
Ok – read something new, then! 🙂
Congrats on another unstacking week! I’m considering the need to take time off from the computer to get some quality reading done. It’s getting to that stage now! It’s not my fault that there is so much sport and stuff to watch! Have a good weekend!
Hahaha, good luck! I need to turn off my games, at the very least…
Another unstacking? Geez, you’re starting to make us all look bad. 🙂
It is nice to be able to unstack. I managed to do that for almost a month at the beginning of the summer, and my review pile is far more manageable because of it.
Bob @ Beauty in Ruins recently posted…From the Shelf to the Page: This Week in the Ruins
Hah, but my backlog of 1,000+ books is enough to leave you still in the clear, I think! Plus that’s not even counting books to review…
Woah, lots of books! Most of these are unfamiliar to me – except Truthwitch! I adored that book last year, and have reread it several times. So good! I can’t wait to read Windwitch. I hope you enjoy all of your new books!
Have a fabulous week. 🙂
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I haven’t got any new books! That’s why it’s Unstacking the Shelves and “books read this week”. I’m pretty proud of myself for getting stuff read. I wasn’t that big a fan of Truthwitch, in the end…
Of the books you read this week, I’ve only read Truthwitch and House of Shattered Wings, both of which got very mixed reviews as I recall. I’m curious to read your reviews. Carry on unstacking!
I can’t remember what you thought of them, if I saw the reviews! I enjoyed The House of Shattered Wings, but not so much Truthwitch. It just felt… thin.