Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted November 2, 2024 by Nicky in General / 34 Comments

Good morning folks! It’s been a busy week around here, which has meant very little time for reading — even when I was lazing around in the hotel room, since we had difficulty getting the WiFi password and finding out which of the three bins was meant for what. Lovely venue, badly executed amenities…

Anyway, the trip also means I haven’t been to the library this week, so all-in-all it’s a pretty low-key post. That said, I do have a few things to share!

Books acquired this week

Though I haven’t been to the library, I did get myself a book in order to top up an order for same-day delivery for something I needed for the trip, and I also got an e-ARC via Netgalley, so here they are!

Cover of The Virtues of Underwear by Nina Edwards Cover of The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Two very different vibes there, I know! I’m quite curious about The Virtues of Underwear, though it was a bit of an impulse-buy… and I’ve loved Emily Tesh’s novellas, so I’m excited for this novel.

Posts from this week

I’m getting enough of a backlog of reviews that I posted some even on days I had another type of post going up, so it’s a bumper crop this week!

Other posts:

What I’m reading

First of all, let’s start with the usual: what books have I finished in the last week and plan to review here soon? Let’s see…

Cover of Saints by Amy Jeffs Cover of Rope's End, Rogue's End by E.C.R. Lorac Cover of Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings, by Natalie Lawrence

As you see, not as much reading as usual, but nonetheless, there we go! And for this weekend… I’m really not sure. I want to read some more manga, which I don’t usually review here, but I’m also knee-deep in Lucy Worsley’s biography of Agatha Christie, and The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth is due back at the library on Monday, so there’s plenty to be getting on with!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!

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34 responses to “Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

    • I have all my reviews written at least, and yes, don’t post them all either — but I read 1-2 books a day in general at the moment, so the backlog builds up all the same when I only post four reviews a week. XD

  1. I’m the same…just posted about the latest Roddy Doyle book and realized I never posted about the first two in the series on Goodreads!

    • I do at least keep up with writing the reviews on StoryGraph! It’s just getting them posted here, since I try to keep it to one post a day…

    • I’m very curious about it!

      Luckily, I have all the reviews written, it’s just a matter of posting them. A backlog’s built up because I usually only post four reviews a week, but I read 1-2 books a day…

  2. I watched the show that Lucy Worsley did about Agatha Christie and was really impressed by what she uncovered since hers was at least the fourth documentary of Christie’s life that I’ve watched in recent years. I’ll be interested in hearing about her book. I think I wrote a post about the show….Here it is: The Mystery Queen

  3. I am such a slow reader, compared to you all. Though, I do have plenty of things going on in my life, if that’s an excuse. Probably not, as I read as much as I want.

  4. The Virtues of Underwear could be a really good read for all the historical book readers out there. I love a good historical romance and often find myself looking up things I read in them out of curiosity.

  5. You have such a variety of books. I read more genres than some people but mostly fiction and mostly with a bit of mystery and a bit of romance. Fantasy, Urban fantasy, romantic suspense, mystery, or a bit of regular romance. I don’t read as much non-fiction or historical fiction.

    Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post

    • My review’s up, so you could read that! 🙂 It’s linked above in the post, but here’s the link again.

      2/5 for me is “it’s okay”; I found the characterisation of one of the protagonists inconsistent, and didn’t really get deeply involved. Plus, I somehow never realised I’d read the book before?! I just found that I’d previously reviewed it in 2019. I did decide to read the second book now, and I liked that more.

  6. Both the books you acquired recently sound super good I’m curious about the underwear one since I like learning about the history of clothing. Also, Enchanted Creatures sounds amazing! Good on you for posting so many backlog reviews, I definitely don’t post a review for every book I read and if I don’t post a review soon after reading It just doesn’t happen for me lol.
    Anyway here’s my stacking the shelves: https://darkshelfofwonders.com/october-2024-wrap-up-stacking-the-shelves/

    • I love the history of clothes too — it’s weird, because I’m not a fan of fashion per se, but it’s a good marker of the way people’s attitudes to clothes have changed!

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