Yep, it’s happened! That rare, rare week where I actually don’t have any new books to show off, and instead show off the books I’ve read this week in pride of place.
Books finished this week:
Not a bad week, though the last day or two have been completely taken up by starting to play the new Mass Effect game! A sneak peek at ratings…
-Four stars to… Medical Frontiers and Urn Burial.
-Three stars to… What is Life?, Relativity: Einstein’s Mind-bending Universe, and Virolution.
Reviews posted this week:
–Mesopotamia, by Gwendolyn Leick. Aspects of this gave me the feeling the author was speculating wildly without really having any proof, so I actually bailed and never finished it. 1/5 stars
–Temeraire, by Naomi Novik. A reread, but I’d forgotten how fun it is! Dragons! Adventure! War! Alternate history! The rest of the series gets less awesome, I hear, but this installment is great. 4/5 stars
–On Basilisk Station, by David Weber. I found myself noticing the flaws more this time, but I still really enjoyed the reread. 4/5 stars
–Rolling in the Deep, by Mira Grant. Fun, but I feel like it was a little underdeveloped and thus predictable. Nice format, though. 3/5 stars
–Natural Histories, by Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss. A little unstructured for my tastes, but some interesting stuff. 3/5 stars
–Final Girls, by Mira Grant. This one got under my skin; interesting concept, and the emotional side worked for me. 4/5 stars
–p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code, by Sue Armstrong. Fascinating topic, and really readable. If you’re scared of cancer, but curiosity is your antidote, this definitely satisfied mine. 4/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Tuesday: Read In One Sitting. Some of these are pretty long, but they had me hooked.
Remember… no new books were obtained. I resisted! Instead, we’re celebrating what I managed to read. <3
How’s everyone been doing?
The books you finished this week all look very interesting to me! 🙂
Stephanie @ Bookfever recently posted…Stacking The Shelves: March 25, 2017
There’s some fascinating stuff, yeah! I wish I’d read more fiction, though.
Hurrah for an unstacking week! I could do with a few of those…You did well with your reading this week so big congrats! Hope you have a good weekend and productive week!
I could do with more of them, myself! But new books are always so tempting… Thanks for dropping by!
Hey, no new books is a good thing! I’m happy for you! I thought my week was also going to end up in the same way (no new books) but then I got a ton of Edelweiss/NetGalley approvals on Friday. o_o I had completely forgotten that I made those requests… LOL. In any case, I hope you read lots of great books this coming week!
Have a fantastic weekend, Nikki. =)
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Indeed! It’s just that so often when I post my Unstacking posts, people respond with “enjoy your new books!” It’s a little disheartening when they’re so obviously visiting only to get visits in return. And haha, NG/EW are daaangerous!
WOW, Nikki. Well done! I wonder if that will ever happen to me… I am pretty notorious when it comes to adding more books.
The Mesapotamia book made me sad – it’s too bad you felt like the author was speculating – I am very interested in Mesapotamia, but I want actual facts. If there is a little bit of speculating, that should be very clear, and only based on the research on hand.
Have a wonderful weekend and happy reading.
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Haha, me too, though! So it happens…
Yeah, it was really disappointing because I’d love to read a good book on the area. The Buried Book by David Damrosch was pretty good, but it focused on the Epic of Gilgamesh rather than general Mesopotamian history.
Great job on making it through the week without adding any new books. I can’t seem to do that myself. Have a great week!
It’s rare for me, haha. Thanks for dropping by!
Oh your this week’s reading is awesome! I too can’t restrain myself from buying books, I always try to go on ban because I have so many unread books but it just doesn’t happen. I try the physical books ban then, that turns out to be success but not the ebooks one.
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Haha, I’m never any good at any kind of ban, so you’re one up on me!
For the first time ever, I did not preorder and play a BioWare game on day one! The previews of Andromeda were so mixed that I just decided to wait on this one. I am deep into Horizon Zero Dawn the meantime anyway, which should take me a few more weeks to finish at least 🙂 Glad you’re enjoying ME:A though!
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I’m enjoying it, but it feels very much like ME2 and a lot of the themes are similar to the original trilogy. There’s quite a few bugs, too, mostly to do with quest order — you can trigger things in completely the wrong order just by accidentally driving to the wrong part of the map. I am especially enjoying the increased moral ambiguity, though.
Love the Fisher mystery tv series. I imagine the books are just as good. Happy reading.
The books are a loooot of fun!
Well done on not adding to your TBR this week. It looks like you’ve read some great books – I’m going to make a note of Viralution as that sounds really interesting. Happy reading for the week ahead! 🙂
I really have, but I do wish I’d fit in some more fiction, haha. Thanks for dropping by!