A quiet week around here, with only one new book to share (which I’ve already finished!). It’s been more of a week for reading what I’ve got, which is always nice.
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
Books acquired this week:
The other Murderbot books were free (or rather covered by one subscription or another), but I had to spend this month’s Audible credit to get Network Effect.
I’ll probably pick up System Collapse soon, but I want to read it in ebook/hard copy first; I don’t retain enough detail from audiobooks, sadly. I’m also very curious about the adapted, full-cast versions, but I don’t want to listen to them back-to-back with the unabridged versions, so I’ll hold off on that for now.
Posts from this week:
As usual, I’ve posted something every day this week. It can be hard to keep up when a blog is so active, or hard to decide what you want to focus on. So here’s a roundup! First, the reviews.
- Fantasy mystery: The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett (4/5 stars)
- YA fantasy graphic novel: Breaklands – Season One: The Chase, by Justin Jordan et al (2/5 stars)
- Memoir/history: A Bookshop of One’s Own, by Jane Cholmeley (4/5 stars)
- Popular science: Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces, by Laurie Winkless (3/5 stars)
And here are the non-review posts:
- Top Ten Tuesday: The Neglected Books (AKA books I surely should’ve read by now)
- What Are You Reading Wednesday
What I’m reading:
This week I’ve been reading a lot, thanks to the Bookly app’s readathon plus my backlog of Audible titles. It’s been really nice, and once I finish this post I have plans to settle down to an uninterrupted hour with a book I’d backburnered for a while and have now got back into. My current plan is to finally finish Cat Bohannon’s Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, which is perhaps a little overly blessed with footnotes for my tastes, but fascinating.
Other than that, I’m not sure what I’ll read, but I have been digging back into Simon Barnes’ The History of the World of 100 Animals, so perhaps I’ll finish that. It’s a bit of a chonker, though!
Here are the books I’ve been reading that I plan to review on the blog. I think for the Murderbot audiobooks I might just do a general post about all of them, just focusing on my overall thoughts of Kevin R. Free’s narration…
As you see, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. It’s very satisfying!
How about you? Got anything exciting lined up?
So many books, so little time! I feel the same way.
It’s exciting to think that at least there’s no way I’m gonna run out of books!
Only one book and you finished it? I think I’m a little jealous. I need a week or two like that.
Haha, I’m usually very bad about that, but I feel like in recent months I’ve been a little better at reading things right away… a little.
I am interested in your thoughts about The History of the World of 100 Animals. It sounds like a book I’d like.
It is wonderful that you have posted every day last week!
I’m enjoying it so far! It’s surprising how many of the stories so far rhyme in some way with other things I’ve been reading recently (I really like that, when different things I’m reading actually connect up somehow).
I am enjoying reading what I want, when I want, and not having a lot of ARC deadlines! Have a great week!
I try not to feel too pinned down by ARC deadlines — I feel guilty that I miss so many, but I’ve never hidden that I might not get round to ’em for a while, ahaha.
I’ve been going through the Murderbot audiobooks recently, so looking forward to your thoughts. I’m the same – I need to have read the hardcopy first, especially to see the names, otherwise I can’t take them in at all. Happy listening 🙂
I’ve gotten used to Kevin R. Free’s narration (and there are some points where I think “yep, that’s Murderbot”), but I don’t always like the voices he gives the characters (like Don Abene and Mensah). He does Gurathin perfectly though.
It’s a while since I listened to Exit Strategy, so I can’t quite recall the narration. But I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the Murderbot stories:)). Have a great week.
I want to read Eve, but I’m nervous because I know a few people who got bored with it. I hope you’re having a great week!
I really enjoy the tainted cup i think this author has such a creative way with all of his books. I use the bookly app to how did you do for hours on the reathatoni think i was over 40. are you on the discord server for them? I am currently reading a door in the dark, defy the night series, and this book won’t burn.
I’m still holding off on reading the second Murderbot book even though I have the physical copy. I want to wait for the audiobook, but I’m also itching to read it and I’m struggling with the dilemma. It’d be great if the audiobook suddenly became available, like, right now! I think it’s a great idea for you to do a collective post about all the Murderbot books and focus on the narration, then when you read full-cast versions later, you can do a comparison post!