A good week! But deadline crunch time is approaching…
Books bought
I forgot to include Saga a couple of weeks back — my wife bought me it on a whim. Yay wives! And I bought Ruined when it finally came in at Fnac, after Cait @ Paper Fury‘s review aaaages ago.
Received to review
A nice haul, though apparently Dark Exodus is a sequel, so I need to get on with reading the first book.
Books finished this week:
Four stars to: Herding Hemingway’s Cats, The Pinks, Killing Gravity, All Systems Red and The Builders.
Three stars to: Reinventing Darwin.
Two stars to: Dangerous Women (Part III).
Reviews posted this week:
–Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie. This was the kind of reread that makes you appreciate a book even more. I enjoyed it the first time, but this time I was less distracted by the gender stuff and more focused on the story — which is darn good. 5/5 stars
–Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente. I didn’t expect to love this. I find Valente’s writing beautiful, but opaque. But for some reason, this grabbed hold of me — and kept a firm grip to the end. 4/5 stars
–Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Fascinating account of octopuses, part scientific, part philosophical. 4/5 stars
–The Bone Palace, by Amanda Downum. A stronger book than the first one, partly because it contains a character I can’t help but adore. Savedra steals this book entirely; the more time the narrative spent with her, the happier I was. 4/5 stars
–Virolution, by Frank Ryan. Could use being a lot more tightly focused. Most of it doesn’t seem directly connected to viruses at all. Interesting stuff about symbiosis and epigenetics, though. 3/5 stars
–Dangerous Women: Part I, ed. Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin. Some entertaining stories, but honestly, I found it remarkably weak for an anthology edited by such big names. 3/5 stars
–Reinventing Darwin, by Niles Eldredge. Apart from some stylistic tics that drove me round the bed — “we naturalists” would have received some serious red pen from me — I don’t disagree with the scientific theories presented here. 3/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Tuesday: Gimme More… A bunch of things I’d like to see more of in fiction.
–What are you reading “Wednesday”. The weekly update. On “Wednesday”, also known as Thursday.
How’s everyone? Any exciting new books on your stacks?
Ooh some nice covers to admire there. I love the green on An Oath of Dogs and Sea of Rust is like an old painting! I haven’t read the first Demonists book yet. Just one of the many I need to get round to!
They are pretty! And yeah, I need to get to that too. Sooon. Sooooooooon.
Oh wow, I haven’t heard of too many of these but there are so many great covers that I am going to have to check some of them out! I hope you love all of your new books and have a great weekend!
Julie @ Happily Ever Chapter recently posted…Stacking the Shelves & Sunday Post
It was a good week for pretty covers, haha. Thanks for dropping by!
Doh! Seeing that new volume of Saga reminds me that I’m behind. And I picked up The Beautiful Ones as well! I enjoyed her vampire book so much, and this one sounds so different but interesting.
Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum recently posted…YA Weekend: The Sleeping Prince by Melinda Salisbury
I’m actually behind by two volumes, I think. Must get to it!
Lots of goodies! Enjoy! Stop by Cafinated Reads’ Stacking The Shelves if you’d like!
Thanks! I always visit back.
I haven’t heard of many of these books but they all have fabulous covers. I especially like the cover of The Beautiful Ones. I hope you enjoy your reading this week 🙂
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It was a good week for covers! I really need to get stuck into these. Thanks for dropping by!
Amazing haul! There some new titles for me. Hope you enjoy reading all the books!
Here’s my STS
Thanks for dropping by! I need to get stuck into these.
YAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS, YOU GOT RUINED! I absolutely adored that book! It was one of my favorites last year. I’m so excited to say that I loved Avenged even more! It’s definitely going to be year-end favorite – it was even better than book one. *gushes for days* I hope you enjoy all of your new books!
Have a lovely week, Nikki. =)
Check out my STS post!
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Hahaha, good to see someone being super enthusiastic about it! I need to get round to reading all of these.
The beautiful ones looks amazing. I hope you enjoy your new books when you get a chance to read them 🙂
Thanks! Me too, haha.
Ahh I’m honoured you liked my review of Ruined! And good news is the sequel just came out too! I’m SO excited to read it. *flails wildly*
I noticed that! I should try and get round to it fast. Though… is it going to be a trilogy or what?