Good morning folks! I’ve been enjoying a few days of being a bit less constantly online and doing some extra reading, as planned, and I have a few more days of that before I’m home. I love being in FFXIV at all hours — but this is fun too, and means I’ve been able to settle down for quality reading time. That hasn’t translated into finishing loads of books, but more reading some longer ones.
Books acquired this week:
…None! Would you believe it? My family never would, but it’s true. I popped into the library to return some books, but I didn’t browse since it was only the small branch library and I don’t know my way around that super well, and we were pressed for time.
Posts from this week:
I’ve been posting as normal, so I do have stuff to share here!
- Non-fiction: The Loki Variations: The Man, the Myth, The Mischief, by Karl Johnson (4/5 stars)
- Romance manga: A Side Character’s Love Story, vol 7, by Akane Tamura (3/5 stars)
- Fantasy/romance light novel: My Happy Marriage, vol 1, by Akumi Agitogi (3/5 stars)
- Biography: Agatha Christie, by Lucy Worsley (4/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life, by Jonathan Silvertown (2/5 stars)
- Classic crime: No. 17, by J. Jefferson Farjeon (1/5 stars)
And of course I posted What Are You Reading Wednesday, as usual, but skipped the TTT prompt for the week since these posts have my recent hauls covered.
What I’m reading:
As usual, let’s start with a sneak peek at the books I’ve finished reading this week which I’ll be reviewing soon!
Not as many as I’d kind of hoped, but they were actually pretty substantial reads (aside from A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation).
As for what I’m reading this weekend, I’m partway through Sheeplands: How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World (Alan Marshall), which is a bit disappointing in that I have questions about the research — Homer didn’t scribe anything into anything, and if you can’t manage to realise that “Homer” is probably a bit of a fiction and that the works attributed to him were likely originally oral works, I don’t know what to do for you.
I’m less sceptical of my fiction read: The Teller of Small Fortunes (Julie Leong) is proving an excellent match for my mood.
Hope everyone else is having a good weekend! Even though I’m a bit more unplugged this weekend, I’m looking forward to visiting blogs as usual, later today — or maybe tomorrow.
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
I’ll be looking at the Teller of Small Fortunes soon. Glad it fit the mood!
I really liked it — I ended up finishing it today!
Sometimes I am pleased to see that I have not brought any new books into my house; it gives me a bit of a respite to focus on what I already have.
I am always particularly interested in seeing what you think of the nonfiction you read.
I do keep trying to reduce my backlog a bit, but it rarely works out that way, haha.
I’m sure I’ll have reviews to share sooner or later! Actually, reviews of almost everything I’ve finished (except the book I’ve finished today) are already written, so I know I’ll be posting them eventually, but I do try to avoid posting about the exact same genre over and over again in the same week.
The nonfiction works for me!
Oh? Anything in particular? I mention various non-fiction books in this post, so I’m curious which sparked your interest!
Short History of British Architecture by Simon Jenks, History of Britain in Ten Enemies by Terry Deary, the Agatha Christie bio by Lucy Worsley and Sace Rover by Sinclair grabbed me. Added those to my Goodreads.
That Agatha Christie bio looks interesting as I just read a book of hers (finally!) The crime classics as always look amazing too. I need to get back on track acquiring those…
The British Library Crime Classics subscription is mostly what keeps me up to date! Very handy, and there’s almost always a cool matching bookmark…
I’m glad you’re enjoying time to read. I hope you find Sing Like Fish as interesting as I did.
Wishing you a happy reading week
I’ve already finished it (that’s why it’s listed among the books I’ve finished), so there’ll be a review forthcoming soon enough! I liked it.
Based on the titles I’ll check out Sing Like A Fish and The Immune Mind.
I liked both a lot! The Immune Mind kind of tapered off for me, after starting out strong, but I loved the first two sections.
I really enjoyed The Teller of Small Fortunes as well!! Have a great week!
I read it so fast! Seems like it was just perfect for my mood at the moment.
Quality reading time is the best! I loved The Teller of Small Fortunes, I hope you enjoy it and your other reads as well.
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I finished it up yesterday and I really loved it too! And it suited my mood perfectly.
I can’t wait to read your review of The Immune Mind. It’s too bad Selfish Genes wasn’t better. The title sounds intriguing.
It might be other people would love Selfish Genes to Social Beings more than I did — in part, something about the style just did nooot work for me. I really loved the first two sections of The Immune Mind, but felt the section on how to be healthier just repeated the same advice everyone gives. It’s not bad advice, but I’m not sure it was a necessary inclusion, and it was rather anticlimactic compared to how fascinating I thought the rest was.
Huge congratulations on not acquiring any books this week. Sadly, I cannot say that same, as suddenly I seem to have been overtaken by an urge to get hold of even more… Have a great week.
Eh, it’s not necessarily a goal of mine to not buy books — when it happens, it happens, but overall I somehow end up buying more books the more I try to avoid it, heh.
I really enjoyed The Teller of Small Fortunes. It was cozy and hopeful.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
Yes, I enjoyed it a lot too!
I’m trying to balance reading, blogging and generally living. My son had a teacher training day so that meant less reading time! I have a few books to get read, and as I am a slow reader I am starting to panic a little bit.
Have a great week next week!
Have a great week!
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