Wednesday came around again, so here goes…

What have you recently finished reading?

Overleaf, by Susan and Richard Ogilvy. It’s a fascinating record of Britain’s trees through a single leaf (or group of leaves in some cases) each, showing both sides of the leaf on either side of a page turn. Susan Ogilvy is the artist, and her brother-in-law Richard is a forester. The detail is fascinating, and each leaf also has a short description with more information, written by Richard Ogilvy.

I’m also still intermittently reading new volumes of Fairy Tail, which I seem to choose when I just want to turn my brain off. I’m not deeply involved with it all, but I enjoy it while I’m reading it.

What are you currently reading?

I’m partway through a reread of The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers. I read it a while after it came out, and now this is my first reread. I don’t love this or the third book as much as the first and second, but I appreciated Record of a Spaceborn Few a bit more second and third time around, so I’m wondering if I’ll have the same experience with this one. So far, I’m not as emotionally involved with it as with the others, though.

In the Serial Reader app, I’m approaching the end of Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit, which is very different in tone to her Poirot books. The romance is very abrupt (though it’s very clear it’s coming), but it’s fun to watch the mystery unfold.

What will you read next?

I’ve got a couple of library books I’m interested in getting round to. Since it’s more or less spooky season, Lindy Ryan’s Cold Snap is a strong contender — and since it’s a novella, it’s a nice quick read that should fit in between other stuff I need to get done this evening.

Other than that, I think I’ll soon pick up The Bookshop, the Draper, The Candlestick Maker, by Annie Gray, for my next non-fiction read. Fiction-wise, I think I’m going to finally dig into Alexis Hall’s Mortal Follies, since I have the second book in the series out of the library. It’s a good thing I’m a fast reader, or I’d never read the first one before the second one needs to go back.

What about you?