Somehow it’s the weekend again already! It caught me by surprise, and yet it’s felt like a very long week, not helped by my own problems with sleeping. Here’s to a restful weekend!
As usual, linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.
Books acquired this week:
It was release week for the latest British Library Crime Classic reissue. I have the subscription, so I got my book this week… and because it’s E.C.R. Lorac (under the Carol Carnac pseudonym), I devoured it right away.
That’s all for now, though yesterday I managed to finish up a first draft of my parasitology class assignment, so I should reward myself with a good book for next week — maybe Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands?
Posts from this week:
As ever, it’s been a busy week: I have to keep up posting one review a day, or I’ll only fall further behind, since I read ~400 books last year and I’m on track to do the same this year! So in case you missed it, here’s the roundup:
- Popular science: How to Make a Vaccine, by John Rhodes (3/5 stars)
- Speculative fiction novella: The Iron Children, by Rebecca Fraimow (4/5 stars)
- Gritty crime graphic novel: Memoria, by Curt Pires & team (3/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Glitter, by Nicole Seymour (4/5 stars)
- Classic crime: Someone from the Past, by Margot Bennett (1/5 stars)
- Game tie-in manga: Final Fantasy XIV Eorzea Academy, by Esora Amaichi (4/5 stars)
- Chinese light novel: The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, vol 3, by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù (4/5 stars)
And the non-review posts:
- Top Ten Tuesday: All About Love (my top ten couples in fiction I’ve read)
- What Are You Reading Wednesday
What I’m reading:
I did some rereading this week (which I don’t plan to re-review, since I read the book so recently), and read a couple of manga I don’t plan to review. So it looks like kind of a slow week (by my usual standards), but actually I read quite a bit! Here’s a sneak peek of the books I read that I do intend to review:
Over the weekend I’m planning to read Seanan McGuire’s Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, which should bring me up to date with that series, and Gina Perry’s The Lost Boys, a non-fiction book about a psychology experiment that pitted groups of boys against each other. I liked Gina Perry’s work on Stanley Milgram’s experiments, Behind the Shock Machine, so this should be good.
Other than that I’m not sure! How about you folks? Any big plans for the weekend?
So many crime novels, so little time. I just started reading a police procedural that begins with a society for reading crime novels, and the fictitious members listed a huge number of authors of whom I’ve only read maybe half. Amazing how many there are. Your subscription seems to offer one every week, and it barely scratches the surface. I hope you enjoy the new one.
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Haha, not quite one every week — it’s one a month. Thank goodness, or I’d never keep up… XD It is amazing how many classics there are, though, and how little we remember them — even authors who were absolutely formative for the Golden Age of Crime.
400 books in a year is quite a lot! I hope you have a great weekend!
I’ll actually be surprised if I keep up the pace this year — I surprised myself with last year’s tally!
I love the variety of books that you read. I don’t read much science-related, but I bet I definitely could fall into that rabbit hole. Have a great week!
It’s a heck of a rabbit hole, haha. So much fascinating stuff to learn!
400 books a year?! How?! And so many of them nonfiction! I go through fiction faster than nonfiction, but I can’t get close to 400 even with only fiction. Respect!
And yes, you should totally reward yourself with the Emily Wilde book! Hope you have a great week!
Haha, it helps that I count graphic novels, I guess. They balance things out!
I got my wife to pick up the new Emily Wilde book for me, so I’m looking forward to digging into that.
I’m looking forward to your review of the Crime Classic. I love reading about these GA authors as I’ve hardly read any of them before. Hope you enjoy Map of the Otherlands.
E.C.R. Lorac is a favourite of mine, and I only found out about her work from this series — I’m so glad they’re republishing so many of them!
Wow! You sure read a lot of awesome books this week!
It was a good week. 😀
400…can’t wrap my mind around that. & such variety!
I haven’t managed any reading so far this weekend but it’s only Sunday night lol
Some of them are quite short, which helps, haha. XD
It seems I’m always reading something, but the reason I tend to read so many books a year is that I read lots of kids’ books. I’ve been known to read and review fifteen to twenty picture books in one day. I’ve slowed down lately, though. I wish I could savor my books a little more.
You definitely should reward yourself with a good book.
I do read quite a few novellas and graphic novels, which can be pretty fast going!
Emily Wilde sounds great, and of course that British Crime as well. I have a lot of those to catch up. A good problem I suppose
Definitely a good problem! I still have a couple I don’t have…
A History of How We Spend Our Time sounds interesting. Have a great week. 🙂
It was quite interesting, but didn’t go as much into depth on the modern stuff as I hoped! Oh well.
Parasitology class? Yikes.
Parasitology is a very important part of public health! It’s not my favourite topic (my pet interest is tuberculosis), but I’ve been deeply fascinated by some of them. And of course, parasitic diseases are some of the most important causes of human morbidity and mortality — malaria of course, but sleeping sickness, elephantiasis, Chagas disease, schistosomiasis… And they’ll only become more important as the climate changes and the vectors’ ranges expand.