Wooo, the weekend! It’s been a cold and icy week here, really treacherous (including our car dramatically almost trying to slip off the back of our carpark and down onto the house a few metres below!), but we’re doing okay. Hope everyone else is doing alright.
Books acquired this week
For a certain value of “this week”… time for the final installment of books I got for Christmas!
First up, the remains of the fiction:
Technically there’s a little more fiction to come that I haven’t shown off, since I had a couple of vouchers to spend after Christmas (and my wife got me a couple more for non-Christmas reasons), but we’ll save that for next week.
You might’ve noticed that I already featured a volume one of The Apothecary Diaries a few weeks ago — that was volume one of the manga, though, and I decided to dig into the light novel. This isn’t at all confusing! Other than that, there’s a couple of picks that were just recommended somewhere (e.g. on Shepherd), plus Thus Was Adonis Murdered, which I was suddenly seeing everywhere a month or so ago.
Next, the rest of the non-fiction!
As ever, it’s a bit of a mix.
And that’s the last of the enormous Christmas haul (part one, part two)… except for a couple of books I bought later with vouchers etc. Next week is really, really the last of it!
Posts from this week:
First up, a quick roundup of reviews…
- Fantasy/teen romance graphic novel: Camp Spirit, by Axelle Lenoir (3/5 stars)
- Christmas romance: Look Up, Handsome, by Jack Strange (4/5 stars)
- History/folklore: Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic, by Amy Jeffs (4/5 stars)
- Fantasy: A Man and his God, by Janet Morris (1/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Space Rover, by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair (4/5 stars)
- Romance manga: A Side Character’s Love Story, vol 6, by Akane Tamura (4/5 stars)
And some non-review posts:
What I’m reading:
First up, a quick roundup of the books I’ve read in the last week — which has been a pretty quiet one, by my recent standards! Reviews will be showing up in due course (with one of them already posted).
This weekend I’m hoping to spend some more time reading, but we’ll see how it goes. I’d certainly like to dig back into A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, since volume 10 has just come out on Friday, and I’ve got started on the light novels for The Apothecary Diaries. Buuut we’ll see where my whim takes me: I read 66 books in December, so if my brain wants a rest, a rest it shall have.
How’s everyone else 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!
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