Hello, everyone! This week I’m away from my bunnies, visiting my grandmother. Here’s a pic of Biscuit back home — hiding out in my pocket while her cage was being cleaned last week!
Bought:
Books read this week:
Reviews posted this week:
–Angkor and the Khmer Civilisation, by Michael D. Coe. A scholarly but nonetheless fascinating discussion of the Khmer and particularly Angkor. 3/5 stars
–The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle. A response to Lovecraft with some genuinely horrifying bits. 3/5 stars
–The Magpie Lord, by K.J. Charles. I really enjoyed the characters, and the mystery is pretty fun too. 4/5 stars
Other posts:
–Discussion: Book Club. Are you a book club person? How do you pick a book for a group read?
–WWW Wednesday. The weekly update!
Out and about:
–NEAT science: ‘Concerning wombats.‘ Did you know that wombats have cube-shaped poop? Well, now you do — and scientists have figured out why, if that interests you.
So how’re you doing? Up to anything good this weekend?
I had to smile at the John Emsley cover and its Lenin lookalike; as a bald man with a dodgy beard and moustache I take exception to being typecast in this way! And the Castles book with its G R R Martin endorsement—I suppose publishers have to sell their books any way they can…
Me, I’m busy doing musical things this weekend: a Haydn oratorio today in Brecon Cathedral, last night in Cardiff (my second visit this week) to rehearse with Cardiff Philharmonic who are doing concerts of film music in Blackwood and St David’s Hall in the next fortnight. So, not much literary stuff but variety is the spice of life, right?
Ah, but at least you have an inbuilt halloween costume?!
That all sounds great! We can’t read ALL the time…
I guess I’d never really thought about wombat poo before but now you mention it, cube shaped is kind of interesting!
It’s pretty weird! I love it when scientists get interested in weird stuff like that, really. I’m a sucker for weird facts that don’t really matter to many people.
I am looking forward to your thoughts on Testament of Loki, I’m planning on reading that before the end of the year too!
I hope you enjoy it! I wasn’t in love with the central concept, but the Loki voice is as snarky as ever. 🙂