After last week, this one’s been nice and quiet. I’ve had a little more time to read than usual since I’ve been out of my usual routine… though at the same time, I did have my eye injury limiting things a bit, and I promise I helped out with stuff like washing dishes and so on! So I haven’t read as much as I might’ve liked — but when do I ever get to do that?
As usual, I’m linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, this weekend.
Books acquired this week:
After the acquisitions of the last few weeks, this has been a quiet one. I’m sure my British Library Crime Classic subscription book of the month is waiting for me at home, but I haven’t been home to pick it up yet… so this week it’s just the most recent in Juliet E. McKenna’s Green Man series, which was on sale for 99p. I haven’t actually read any of this series yet: I really have to hop to it!
I’m pretty sure it’ll be a good time when I do get around to reading it, thanks to Imyril’s reviews. That’s why I keep picking up the ebooks when I see them on sale…
Posts from this week:
This week I’ve continued posting reviews daily, slowly trying to catch up on my backlog. So here goes the roundup!
- Fantasy romance: Blood Moon, by M.J. O’Shea (1/5 stars)
- Historical non-fiction: The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes, by Kate Strasdin (4/5 stars)
- Video game tie-in: Encyclopaedia Eorzea volume II, by Square Enix (4/5 stars)
- Fantasy horror novella: The House of Drought, by Dennis Mombauer (2/5 stars)
- Fantasy graphic novel: Cold Iron, by Andy Diggle & team (3/5 stars)
- Popular science: The Science of Sin, by Jack Lewis (2/5 stars)
As you see, I’m trying out adding an indication of genre in case it helps people decide whether they’re interested in checking something out!
And other posts:
What I’m reading:
As I draft this on Friday night, I’ve just finished up Cat Jarman’s The Bone Chests, so I’m not sure what I’ll focus on for the weekend. I’m feeling an itch to read more non-fiction, so I might try Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking On Paper, or possibly Bettany Hughes’ The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. I want to do a bit of catching up on my reading goal as well, so I’m eyeing some novellas.
I have done some reading this week, though, so here’s a little sneak peek of reviews to come in the next weeks/months…
Hope everyone else has had a good week! Anything exciting in your reading plans for the weekend?
Good luck with completely recovering from your eye injury!
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Thanks! I’m pretty much back to normal now, thankfully; maybe just a little discomfort still. It’s amazing how quickly the eye heals!
The cover for Green Man Quarry is eye catching!
Have a great weekend!
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It is! The series are a pretty nicely-matched set, too. 😀
Thanks for dropping by!
Oh, I do hope you are healing up well, and yes, help out with the dishes Have a wonderful weekend, Nicky
Thank you, I’m pretty well healed now! Eyes heal really fast as long as you don’t damage them too much, and I was lucky.
Hope your eye continues to heal well. I like the idea of adding the genre to the post. Have a great week!
Thank you! I went back to normal computer usage and such this evening, and it’s gone well, so things are looking good.
I hope you continue to heal. I’m fascinated by The Notebook.
I’m really eager to dig into that one! I’ve always been a “thinking on paper” kind of person…
You did get a nice bit of reading done this week. Hope you are completely back to normal soon.
Thank you! I really did have a good reading week, and I read a lot this weekend too. It feels really good!
Seven wonders and Forgotten Peoples both look good to me. Hope you’re having a nice weekend. 🙂
I liked Forgotten Peoples okay, but I wish it’d gone more into depth on some things — it gave exactly the same amount of space to each “forgotten” group, regardless of how much evidence/information we have about them.
My dad’s retinal tear has healed completely and he is ninety-seven. Glad you are much better, too.
I’m always in the mood for nonfiction. The Notebook: A History of Thinking On Paper and The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World both sound like books I’d pick.
It’s amazing how fast eyes can heal!
I’ve started on The Notebook, and I’m really enjoying it — and it touches on bits of history I know very little about, which is always exciting.
I hope you heal quickly! Eye issues are so annoying because you can’t just stop using your eyes.
Luckily eyes heal quickly — or at least the cornea does, and that’s what was damaged. I was very lucky! And I’m aaaalmost back to normal now.
I hope your eye is healing well.
I like the variety of your nonfiction reads, you might like to share them through my Nonfiction Reader challenge
Wishing you a happy reading week
Right?? I love finding so many great nonfic books here!
I’m keeping the number of challenges I do low for this year at least, since I’ve only just got back to feeling like I want to spend lots of time blogging, haha. Don’t want to burn out! But I’m definitely keeping an eye on it for ideas, hehe.
Adding the genre is a nice touch! Sometimes covers do clue us in or titles too. Hope your eyes are continuing to get back to normal. Have a good week!
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Thank you! So far so good — things seem almost back to normal. 😀
I want to read Jarman’s book, but when I requested my library purchase it, it was not approved because they could not get it from their regular suppliers. So frustrating!!
Argh, what a shame! I liked it OK, but I wished it’d focused a bit more on the investigation into the bone chests — it’s really more of an Anglo-Saxon history that just uses the bones as a jumping-off point.
You are my go-to for nonfiction reading recommendations! You always have the best books that I can’t help but get intrigued by. The downside is my ever-growing TBR list though. I don’t know how I’m ever going to read them all!
Haha, oops! 😀 I blame all the good books out there…
I hope you enjoy your week! I’m working on finishing Last Night by Luanne Rice. I thought it was a political thriller, but it’s about an artist and her husband. It’s still a decent read!
Oh, interesting! Was there a misleading blurb or something? Hope it turns out worth it. 😀
I’ve been trying to break myself of the habit of buying book in a series that I’ve not even started yet. I mean, what happens if I read the first book and don’t care for it enough to continue? It happens. I’m buying less but it’s still hard when you come across great deals! 🙂
I didn’t always do it, but often series get cancelled if people don’t buy them… so when I’m pretty sure I’ll like it, sometimes I take a gamble, haha.
I’m glad you had a quiet week. Those are always nice after a chaotic one or two or more, lol. I’m sorry your eye injury’s still causing problems. I hope it heals quickly. Have a great week!
With a few more days, it seems all healed up now! Relief — I hated my eyes getting so tired so fast when I just wanted to read. XD Thanks for dropping by!