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!
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:
- Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life, by Kat Arney (4/5 stars)
- The Waking of Angantyr, by Marie Brennan (5/5 stars)
- The Magician’s Angel, by Jordan L. Hawk (4/5 stars)
- Mirror Lake, by Juneau Black (4/5 stars)
- Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World, by Eleanor Cleghorn (4/5 stars)
- Clean Room, vol 2: Exile, by Gail Simone, Jon Davis-Hunt & Quinton Winter (4/5 stars)
- The Christmas Card Crime And Other Stories, ed. Martin Edwards (3/5 stars)
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…
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?
I haven’t read any of yours but I like that they are Chrismas themed. Have a happy holiday.
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!
Have a wonderful Christmas!
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You too! 🙂
Looks like a great reading week with all those 4/5 stars! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
I’m actually late on posting reviews so those are from previous weeks, but it still wasn’t bad! Hope you have a good Christmas, too.
Merry Christmas! I hope you have a fantastic holiday and get some awesome books to add to your reading list!
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Thank you! I’m pretty sure I will.
Ah, a book on handwriting! I’ll be interested in hearing more about that book.
Enjoy a happy holiday with your family!
I’ve already dipped into it a bit — looks like a fairly quick read…
Thanks!
I hope you find some peace and relaxation over the holidays!
The Veronica Speedwell cover made me think it was a Wells and Wong mystery by Robin Stevens, so I may have to take a look. I usually only read middle grade books, so it’s fascinating to get a look into the world of other books. Have a very happy holiday!
Ah, interesting! I did enjoy those, actually. 🙂
I’d like to read Christmas History, I think it would be an interesting read.
I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas!
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!
I love the look of Unwell Women!
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It was an interesting read, for sure!
You’ve got such interesting books listed! I’m fascinated by Rebel Cell and Unwell Women, I’ll have to check them out. Thanks for sharing. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
They were both really good! Thanks for dropping by, and have a good Christmas. 🙂
It looks like a lot of good books on your list! Some look like ones I need to check out. Like Unwell Women especially. Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
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!
I could probably use that handwriting book. My handwriting is atrocious!
Merry Christmas!!
Haha, it’s more of a history, really! I’m hoping it’s as interesting as it looks.
Happy Christmas!
I hope you have a great Christmas! Enjoy your new books.
Thank you! You too!
Merry Christmas!!!!
I have Silent Nights on my list to get soon…
Happy Christmas!
I enjoyed it; those anthologies are pretty good.
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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Yeah, I managed to finish it! It was OK, and hopefully the next book will get back to the stuff I really enjoy about the series.
I like your Christmas themed books! I hope Santa brought you many books for Christmas. For the first time in awhile I got several books. I think having them on my Amazon wish list helped lol
Santa did indeed bring me lots of books… he seems to have ransacked my wishlist, hahaha.