Good morning! I hope everyone who celebrates has had a lovely Christmas period. I’ve certainly been spoiled, and had a lot of fun spoiling others in turn.

Books acquired this week

Hold on to your hats! There’s a lot to come. I’m not going to post them all at once, since the post would be huge, and I won’t be getting any other new books for a bit, so I’m going to show some arbitrary subset now and continue next week (and the week after and possibly the week after). First up, here are my new graphic novels and manga!

Technically, the volumes of A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation were bribes to keep my spirits up for work/study on the 23rd and 24th, rather than Christmas presents. I’m sad that I have the whole series for now — but volume 10 is out at the end of January!

Now for some of the non-fiction I got! I won’t try to pick out a theme, let’s go with randomness and not over-think it…

 

As you can see, the main gifter of books (my wife) tried to give me a bit of a range of non-fiction to choose from! I can’t wait to skip my way randomly through my new stacks, and indeed (as you’ll see below) I’ve already begun!

But before we get to that, here’s some of the fiction I received!

Bit of a mix, as ever; I think I found out about most of these via other people’s blogs, so, thank you! I can’t remember how I came across A Case of Mice and Murder, though.

As you can see, I’ve got plenty to dig into, and at least two more STS posts to come to show off my full haul. Well and truly spoilt!

Posts from this week

It’s been a bit of a light week, but I did put up a couple of reviews, so let’s recap those!

• History: The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives, by Adam Smyth (4/5 stars)
• Short mysteries set at Christmas: Crimson Snow, ed. Martin Edwards (4/5 stars)
• Romance manga: A Side Character’s Love Story, vol 4, by Akane Tamura (4/5 stars)
• SF novella: The Cybernetic Tea Shop, by Meredith Katz (4/5 stars)

What I’m reading

The end of the year is approaching, so I’ve been reading a lot to try to reach my reading goal, though I don’t plan to review all of it. Here’s a sneak peek at the books I finished this week which I do plan to review, as usual:

 

As you see, quite a few books, but it’s been pretty light reading for the most part.

Over this weekend, I have a few Christmas-themed books I’d like to get round to reading — Look Up, Handsome by Jack Strange, Dramatic Murder by Elizabeth Anthony, Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency by Josie Lloyd… and we’ll see how it goes and whether I get round to them before it feels too post-Christmas for them!

How’s everyone else doing? How was Christmas, if you celebrated?

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