Hurrah, it’s Saturday! I’ve been spending the day finishing up my wife’s custom “advent calendar”, but it’s time to think about books now!
Books acquired this week
I managed to get down to the library this week, hurrah! It was cold later in the week, but there was one warmer day that was perfect at the start of the week.
I keep meaning to try H.G. Parry’s work, and I’m pretty sure I have a book by Rose Black already on my TBR. As for Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency, it looks like a fun seasonal mystery! I enjoyed reading a bunch of those around Christmas last year, so I thought I’d give this one a shot.
I did get a couple of new books to test out my new ereader with, as well. It’s my first colour one, so I wanted to pick a book with colour, and also a manga to try out on it (since one of the reasons to get a faster ereader was to spend more time reading manga).
I actually got a few of Sewell’s books, but I’m not reviewing them all here — it’d be very repetitive.
Posts from the last week
As usual, here’s the round-up!
- Non-fiction: The British Museum: Storehouse of Civilizations, by James Hamilton (4/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold On Us, by Anna Bogutskaya (4/5 stars)
- Romance: The Pumpkin Spice Café, by Laurie Gilmore (1/5 stars)
- Romance manga: A Side Character’s Love Story, vol 1, by Akane Tamura (3/5 stars)
- SF horror: Rose/House, by Arkady Martine (4/5 stars)
I didn’t do TTT this week, so the only other post is my What Are You Reading Wednesday post.
What I’m reading
First of all, let’s have a peek at what I’ve finished in the last week which I plan to review here! Here’s a sneak peek:
I’ll be rereading more of A Side Character’s Love Story this weekend, and I think digging into Murder at the Ashmolean, by Jim Eldridge. I’d like to get round to more of The Spellshop, too.
And that’s me for the week! How’s everyone doing?
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
The Secret Adversary sounds good, and I do love Agatha Christie. Just had to prune my library reserve list though, as it was getting out of hand.
It was okay — I’m not the hugest Agatha Christie fan, in general, but it’s fun to try them all out.
My new year’s resolution will be to read more nonfiction. I need a list! Happy reading week.
Ahh, good luck! I’ve read about 33% non-fiction this year, though in some months it’s been a lot more. I find it relaxing!
Which ereader did you get? Do you like it? I hope it’s working out well for your manga reads.
I got an Onyx Boox Go Colour 7, which I love — I’m always a fan of Boox products, though I think they still need to improve some of the user experience type stuff (sometimes it can be tricky to get it to do exactly what you want). It’s been going great for reading manga, it’s really speedy. I want to try a comic book or two with it at some point, too…
I am currently reading The Scholar and the Last faerie Door and I am loving it!
I love my color ereader for magazines and my black and white for books. I hope you enjoy yours.
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I’m enjoying it a lot! I have a black and white ereader as well, but it has a smaller screen (it’s a Boox Palma), so it wasn’t really viable for manga etc.
I’m reading holiday books for Kimberly’s HoHoHoRAT. Thankfully I have finished my December ARCs for the mot part so I can just read things I’ve been wanting to read. I’ve checked out a few at the library and made a list of some I own.
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I’m going to start on a couple of Christmas-themed books I have now — it’s not a thing I particularly look out for, but the British Library Crime Classics usually have something Christmas-themed, and there’s the book I found at the library. Hope you have a fun time reading!
I loved Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black so I’m hoping to read this one too.
The Scholar and the Last Faerie is tempting too
Wishing you a happy reading week
I need to read that one too!
I hope you enjoy your new ereader. I love picture books and most of them won’t work on my regular Kindle. Also, the battery on my Kindle is not as good as it used to be. I am thinking about a mini-iPad. I hope you will share more about it soon.
I picked up a huge stack of Christmas picture books from the library this week. I am looking forward to reading them.
The one I got was an Onyx Boox Go Colour 7. It’s pretty nice, especially since you can get access to multiple ebook stores that way (e.g. both Kindle and Kobo), though the user experience can sometimes be a bit tricky.
I keep telling myself that I’m going to read more by Agatha Christie, then I don’t. That might be one of my book resolutions of ’25.
I’ve been reading the ones that are in the public domain in the US, via Serial Reader! It’s been helping to make time for it, since I only read a little bit each day.
I hope you enjoy your books. I just ordered a color e-reader. I ordered the Kobo Libre Color. Which one did you get? Hope you enjoy your new e-reader. Have a great week!
Mine’s an Onyx Boox Go Colour 7! A bit more off the beaten path — I like the freedom of being able to use any app store. I used to love Kobos, though; I still miss the Kobo Mini!
The scholar and the Last Faerie Door looks fantastic.
It sounds fun; I’ve been meaning to try this author for ages, too…