Happy weekend! There’s still not a lot going on for me reading-wise, but it always goes in phases for me, and I’m not sweating it. Reading’s not my job, it’s meant to be for fun, after all.
Plus, the fact that I’m not acquiring more books is not so bad: I have a bookshop trip with a friend coming up next week (most likely), and my birthday coming up in August (definitely), so… quiet weeks are good, if only because I’m running out of space.
Books acquired this week
N/a! I did look at requesting some on Netgalley, but I didn’t feel the excitement, so I decided to give it a miss (for now at least).
I should’ve pre-ordered KJ Charles’ new book, but I forgot. Hoping to pick that up next week!
Posts from this week
Here’s the usual roundup of what I’ve been posting!
- Comics: Foxes in Love, vol 3, by Toivo Kaartinen (4/5 stars)
- History non-fiction: Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks, by Alan G. Jamieson (3/5 stars)
- Historical fiction/fantasy: The Winter Prince, by Elizabeth E. Wein (4/5 stars)
- History non-fiction: Nefertiti’s Face: The Creation of an Icon, by Joyce Tyldesley (4/5 stars)
- History non-fiction: Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History, by Rebecca Struthers (4/5 stars)
Other posts:
What I’m reading
I’ve still been mostly re-reading the Narnia books, which I’m not going to review here again, but I did this week finish one new book I’ll review soon:
It’s a fun addition to the Shady Hollow series; I enjoyed it a lot.
I did start picking up some other new-to-me books this week as well, though I haven’t finished them yet, including Sue Black’s Written In Bone, which is fascinating (if sometimes gruesome) and Victoria Finlay’s Colour, which is pretty fascinating. Perhaps I’ll finish them in the week ahead!
Hope everyone’s having a good one!
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
Looks as if you have a lot of reading to do! I hope you have some nice outdoor summer fun as well.
best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Nah, I’ll pass on the outdoor summer fun. Not my thing. 🙂
Even though reading *was* my job (school librarian), I still had to remind myself, often, that the blogging and reviewing really was just for fun, and was not something I had to do.
I’ve never felt guity about acquiring books that I haven’t read. Now I give a book a year or two, and if I still haven’t read something I’ve acquired, I put it out in my Little Free Library.
I’m quite careful about noticing when it feels like something’s become an obligation for me, so I don’t burn out. It’s so easy to slip into…
Yes, I regularly cull out books I haven’t read and donate them. If the time comes round again, it’s easy enough to borrow or get another copy, after all!
Reading goes in phases for me, too. I’m in a hopping phase, at the moment, but it’s only the second real surge that I’ve had this year.
If only I could be a bit more consistent, ahaha. But it’s no use forcing myself — it’ll spoil the fun.
I finished re-reading two books this week as well. One I did update the review, the other I did not. Have a great week!
Yeah, it depends on whether I feel like I have anything new to say. Sometimes it was just fun nostalgia, sometimes I’ve noticed something interesting and new!
I have an appalling number of books NetGalley has kindly given me which I have yet to read and review. I can understand giving it a miss, when nothing seems to grab you.
I can always buy the books later, if they catch my interest then, after all! No need for FOMO.