It’s the weekend, and I’m so glad for it. Much-needed from my point of view! And it’ll be slightly extended, as I’ll be off to the wedding of a friend from university this week. It’s exciting to be seeing everyone again!
So let’s try and get me into a good mood with lots of books and me-time, huh?
Books acquired this week
I went to the library twice this week (since I might not get down there at all next week, and I had a hold to pick up), so it’s a bit of a bumper crop. And my library card is now maxed out, oops! First the fiction:
I actually had eARCs of What Feasts at Night and Sword Crossed, but I didn’t get round to them — ebooks can be a bit “out of sight, out of mind” for me, unfortunately. But now I’ve read both already, and either way now the library knows people are interested in these authors!
I did also find some non-fiction, some of it from my wishlist:
So that was a lovely haul.
I did also get a couple of books from my wife. I haven’t been “cashing in” my Valentine’s gift (a book of my choice each month) for a couple of months, so after I finished Wormwood Abbey, I asked for the next two books:
And that’s it, for now. As if that wasn’t enough, ahaha.
Posts from this week
First, the reviews, as usual:
- Non-fiction: Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time, by Helen Molesworth (3/5 stars)
- SF novella: Out of the Drowning Deep, by A.C. Wise (4/5 stars)
- SF graphic novel: The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, by Gerard Way et al (1/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Arik Kershenbaum (3/5 stars)
And the non-reviews:
What I’m reading
Well, let’s start first with the books I’ve finished since last week, or at least the ones I’m going to review here:
As you see, it’s been a pretty good week, with some spooky reads as well (unusual for me). For the weekend, I plan to read some manga/manhua, but also hopefully start on Christina Baehr’s Drake Hall, and possibly finally get started on Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop.
…Probably. As always, I’ll be going based on whatever my random whim tells me.
Finally, just a reminder for folks in the UK that Bookshop.org’s Golden Bookmark competition is drawing toward the closing date. The competition is a prize draw for £250 of book vouchers per year for life. You can sign up via my referral link to enter! Full disclosure: that gets me a few extra entries, and then you’ll be able to grab your own referral link to share.
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
You read so many books: I can’t imagine how you do it. It takes me a few days to read a book, think about it, and write it up.
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I guess it’s partly that I’m a fast reader, and partly that I just make the time for it one way or another — I’m rarely happy without a book on the go somewhere!
I’m always happy to see what you are reading, especially your nonfiction. I often try to track down books that might work well for my naturalist book club. One this week that I want to find out more about is Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind.
My library changed the limit of books checked out at one time to one hundred, so I can safely check out most anything I want. The library does charge fines, though, so I must be careful to return them all on time.
The author, Richard Fortey, has definitely written some books I loved in the past — I’m not a huge fan of geology, but I found his geology-based books fascinating!
Oh my goodness! That’s a lot. I’d be sunk, ahaha. We’re allowed 20 at a time.
Those covers are daring! Enjoy the books.
Thank you, I’ve been enjoying the ones I’ve picked up so far!
Crypt of the Moon Spider looks really interesting. I hope you enjoy these books and have a great time at the wedding. Have a wonderful weekend.
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It was okay, but for me there was some imagery that gave me the heebie-jeebies in a very unfun way!
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You’ve got some interesting books to go through, spooky ones as well! I’ve never read Jim Eldridge, will give him a try.
I found the first book in Jim Eldridge’s Museum Mysteries series just okay, but I love the idea of mysteries set in museums, so I’m giving him another shot! We’ll see…
Wow! That is quite a haul! I see a lot of Jim Eldridge represented. I need tot are a look at this author.
I thought the first book was just okay, but it’s fun enough — and I do love the idea of setting a series of mysteries in various museums!
I would not trust myself in the library twice in one week. I’d check out way too many books. Either I’ve never reached the book limit or we don’t have one. I’m pretty sure we don’t have one. The only thing we have is limitations on Hoopla. If too many people have already checked out that day then you may not be able to check something out. Sometimes I get up at midnight just to check out an ebook because that’s the only way to ensure that I’ll get it.
What a great Valentine’s gift idea. I might steal that.
Haha, I did go a bit nuts, though I was stymied from further excess both by how many books I thought would fit into my panniers and how many I was allowed to take out…
Wow, that’s some book haul! I hope you enjoy them and have a great week!
Yes, I had fun, hahaha.
A book a month is a great gift idea!!! I hope you enjoy all of these when you get a chance to read them!
It’s worked very well for us for some years! The gift in return was “a nap without me complaining”, but my wife hasn’t wanted to nap so much in the last year or so, so we’ll need a new idea…
That’s a great amount of reading for this week. I hope you enjoy the wedding.
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Thank you, I did! Though I’m behind on everything now, haha.
I hope you enjoy your extended weekend! I really enjoyed Crypt of the Moonspider, it was VERY weird
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I didn’t love Crypt of the Moon Spider, but I should probably have expected that — I’m quite scared of spiders, ahaha.
These Eldridge books looks fun!
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The first book was just OK, but I love the idea of a museum as a setting for a mystery…
Ooh! New-to-me- Fortey book. Fun title.
I spotted it at the library and grabbed it based on the fact that it’s Fortey alone, though I didn’t love The Wood for the Trees as much as his earlier books. I have high hopes, all the same!