Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted December 23, 2023 by Nicky in General / 31 Comments

Another week gone by already! After this post, I’ll be catching up on comments today and tomorrow, and there’ll be one more review post, and then I’ll take a little break from posting for a couple of days. I celebrate Christmas, so I’m going to be busy with my family!

As before, I’ll be linking up with a few different posts: Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

Books acquired this week:

This week I have just two books to show for myself: first, my British Library Crime Classic for this month, Margot Bennett’s Someone from the Past… and my present from Ana and Paulo at Postcrossing, a book on handwriting!

Cover of Someone From The Past by Margot Bennett Cover of Script & Scribble by Kitty Burns Florey

So that’s a pretty restrained week, compared to what my wife assures me will happen on Christmas, haha.

Posts from this week:

As usual, let’s have a bit of a roundup of my reviews this week:

And my Top Ten Tuesday this week:

What I’m reading:

This week I’ve been reading a few manga (which I often don’t review in full), but I did also finally pick up The Impossible Impostor again, after someone assured me that they got on better with the next book in the series. I skimmed a bit, but I got back into it — whew. Over the weekend, I think I’ll work on finishing Christmas: A History by Judith Flanders, and maybe a couple of shorter reads. I’ve been a bit stressed out, though, so I’m just going to follow my whim and try to relax!

Here’s a peek at books I read this week that I will be reviewing soon…

Cover of The White Priory Murders by Carter Dickson Cover of Silent Nights, edited by Martin Edwards Cover of The Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn Cover of Who Killed the Curate by Joan Coggin Cover of Christmas: A History by Judith Flanders

And that’s it! It was a quieter week this week, reading-wise, but that’s OK.

How’s everyone doing? Ready for Christmas, if you celebrate?

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31 responses to “Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

    • It’s been a very Christmas-themed week, not entirely intentionally… but I did want to get things read before the end of the Christmas period!

    • I actually ended up DNFing it, because it lumped in a particular Welsh custom with a lot of others that it doesn’t really fit with, and spelled it completely bizarrely, and I just didn’t trust the rest of it… which is a bit of a shame!

    • Unwell Women was pretty good, if sometimes a bit sad because aaargh, how do we end up like this?

      Thanks for dropping by — hope you have a good Christmas!

  1. Happy holidays! It’s always difficult to decide whether to stick with a book or give it another try, that’s good you got back into that book and hopefully it will be a good one. I re-read one of my favorite manga series Hikaru No Go throughout last and this year, but I don’t write reviews for them, so I definitely udnerstand why you don’t review them in full.
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