Greetings, folks! Welp, I’m sort of caught up for right now, but I don’t know if it’ll stick. How’s everyone else doing?
Linking up with The Sunday Post @ The Caffeinated Reviewer and Stacking the Shelves @ Reading Reality & Tynga’s Reviews.
Books acquired this week:
Thank you to the kind folks who have bought me books this week… and the customer service folks at Waterstones who managed to get The COVID-19 Catastrophe shipped to me in the end!
Books read this week:
Reviews posted this week:
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, by Leah Price. Kind of unfocused and rambly. 2/5 stars
- Murder in the Mill-Race, by E.C.R. Lorac. As usual with Lorac, it’s atmospheric and draws a good picture of a community. 4/5 stars
- Mr Popper’s Penguins, by Richard Atwater. Cute, and I’d probably have loved it as a kid. 2/5 stars
Other posts:
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’d Like To Read For The First Time Again. I reprised a topic I’ve most likely done before…
- WWW Wednesday. Including chat about Invasive Aliens (Dan Eatherley) and Murder in the Mill-Race.
Alrighty, that’s all done! And how about you folks? Got any awesome new books?
I’m interested in that Covid 19 book and grabbed it for my e-reader. I’ll be interested to see what you think of it!
I think certain aspects of it will annoy you, knowing your politics (choice quote: “Sovereignty is dead”), but it’s a good analysis of the situation (and speaking not politically but as someone with knowledge of epidemiology, he’s correct in suggesting that the answer to some of it is more political unity across countries, not less).
The subtitle of the Covid 19 Book is a bit disingenuous given the crisis is ongoing!
Wishing you a great reading week
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I don’t think it’s disingenuous… He’s writing about how to better handle the next pandemic, which he considers inevitable, which is a prediction most biologists would agree with, I think — I certainly do, in any case. This pandemic situation has been so badly handled in the UK (which is the perspective he’s largely writing from) that the damage is done; the measures he suggests can’t be adopted retrospectively.
Interesting selection of books. The COVID-19 book really looks interesting.
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It’s a really good analysis of why things went wrong! Pretty ringing indictment of the British government, though pretty pro-China… which I have mixed feelings about.
I am very curious about the COVID-19 book, especially still being in the midst of it. The response here has been an absolute joke and states are now having to close again because they opened up too soon, and/or had a bunch of morons refusing to wear masks. I am sometimes deeply embarrassed to be from the US.
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Yeah, very similar for the UK, alas.
The Woman in the Wardrobe – that titles just grabs. Happy reading.
Yeah, same! I haven’t actually read the blurb yet (I collect these British Library reissues) but the title… I’m so intrigued!