Greetings folks! It’s definitely getting autumnal here, and though the sun is bright outside the window, it’s chilly. Probably my favourite sort of weather, really — though if it stays this cold, I’m going to need to acquire some gloves before I next cycle down to the library, ahaha.
Books acquired
Once more, it’s been a busy week for library books, since a couple of holds came in and I found where they keep the recent releases. Here’s the library haul!
I also got some poetry collections, but I’m not sure whether I’ll end up reviewing those here; so far there’s some I’ve wanted to review, and some where I feel I have nothing useful to say. At least, not enough to fill up a review. So I’ll leave those out of the haul for now.
I did also get an e-ARC for review from Tor, which looks fascinating and promises me a twisty plot like Dorothy L. Sayers. We’ll see!
Posts from this week
As usual, let’s start with the reviews!
- Romance: Book Lovers, by Emily Henry (3/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life, by Helen Scales, illustrated by Marcel George (4/5 stars)
- Graphic novel: The Baker and the Bard, by Fern Haught (3/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Universal Basic Income, by Karl Widerquist (3/5 stars)
And the other posts:
What I’m reading
This week I spent a lot of time with library books, since I keep overdoing it and getting loads at once (it’s like my brain refuses to accept that they’ll be there next time). I suspect my weekend will be much the same, as I have a hold waiting for me at the library. Here’s the usual peek at the books I’ve finished this week (at least the ones I plan to review on the blog):
For right now, I’m reading Yellowface, The Book at War, and of course, volume 7 of Heaven Official’s Blessing. I’ll probably also pick up The Mountain in the Sea in the course of the weekend… or maybe another non-fiction, since The Book at War is rather slow.
Either way, I hope to spend plenty of time reading.
Hope you all have a good weekend too!
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
Hope you like Yellowface, an unusual book about the publishing industry. I hope to read more of her books.
“Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meaning“ sounds fascinating — however, while it was published in the UK last August, it won’t be available in the US until next spring! I might have to order it from the UK though that’s pricy.
I’ve read a couple of the others on your list — you were lucky to find the Osman book at the library. I loved it (reviewed it last week).
Have a good week… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
I brought home three new releases from the library this week, and all three are due back in two weeks, with long holds lists. I guess this is a big release time of the year. I actually have one more that came in after I received these three. I’m waiting to pick it up at the last possible moment!
If my library books ever stop arriving, I want to read the Osman book. A nice person left it in my Little Free Library.
I do the same thing with the library and it sees they like to arrive all at once!