This post comes to you after a deeply lazy morning on my part, which segued neatly into a deeply lazy early afternoon — I didn’t get out of bed until nearly 2pm, because I was busy reading! And now it’s time to talk books for a bit.
Books acquired this week
I had a lucky week for ARCs — I have auto-approval from Tor on Netgalley, but I was more surprised to get approved for A Drop of Corruption from Random House! Thanks to both for these eARCs.
I also claimed my February book from my wife — every year, for Valentine’s Day, we renew a promise that I get (at least) one book a month of my choice. In practice it’s often more, but still, the choosing of the monthly book is a thing. And this time it was the second book in a mystery series I’m quite enjoying!
Sadly it doesn’t look like the fourth book is available in this edition, but here’s hoping I’ll manage to get my hands on some copy or other. The third book is now on its way to me… given that I devoured The Shortest Way to Hades this morning already.
Posts from this week
Time for a bit of a roundup of the reviews I’ve been posting!
- Mystery: Tea on Sunday, by Lettice Cooper (3/5 stars)
- Romance manga: Star Collector, vol 2, Sophie Schönhammer and Anna Backhausen (3/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, by Ashley Shew (4/5 stars)
- Fantasy: The Teller of Small Fortunes, by Julie Leong (5/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Stonehenge: The Story of a Sacred Landscape, by Francis Pryor (4/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: What An Owl Knows, by Jennifer Ackerman (3/5 stars)
What I’m reading
First off, as usual, here’s a roundup of what I’ve read since the last post, at least assuming I plan to review it — a bit of a sneak peek, if you will.
Not sure what I’ll be reading today, all in all — probably more of The Light Eaters, a fascinating book about plant intelligence, but I’m not sure what else. As my whimsy takes me, I’m sure!
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
Thanks for the heads up on that Caudwell series. I’m beginning with the first, Thus Was Adonis Murdered. Now reserved.
Oh, I hope you enjoy it! I saw a whole bunch of people recommending it in a clump and thought, hey, I’ll check it out too, and now I’m really enjoying the series.
I think I need to try and see if I can work this one book-a-month thing into my Valentine this year haha
Haha, I can attest it’s a lovely tradition!
That’s a very nice Valentine’s tradition!
Have a great week.
We don’t make a big deal of Valentine’s Day itself, to be honest, but it works well for us to have treats through the year!
glad you are auto approved by a publisher you like. Makes a big difference. Have a good week.
Thanks for dropping by! Hope you have a good week too.
Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you enjoy your new books.
Thank you! I’m sure I will. 😀
I loved The Tainted Cup and have been dying to read A Drop of Corruption. I have the eARC and just need to fit the time.
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Yeaaah… I hope I’ll find the time for it quickly, too!
I hope you enjoy all your books. I love the cover of the Caudwell book!
The books are very fun, and I like these covers a lot more than the newer editions! The covers are so much more generic on those.
Lots of goodies!
Hopefully this comment will post. Lately when I try to comment on your blog, I get an ‘internal server error’ and even when I close out and try again, the same message comes up. Fingers crossed when I hit ‘post comment’ on this one!
Yes, an exciting week!
I’ve let my web host know about the issues you’ve been having with commenting. He’ll see if he can find anything in the logs — but this one got through at least!
Thank goodness! It says it is a critical error, thought I just commented on another post that gave the same message, yet my comment appeared. But please know I am reading your blog, even if comments aren’t getting through!
I saw that Around the World in 80 Plants is on sale today, and I am very tempted. I loved the book in the series about trees, and I have the birds book in my TBR.
I’ve just shared your wife’s wonderful gift to you for Valentine’s Day with my husband. I hope he takes the hint!
I do recommend it, it’s lovely!
And hehe, yeeees, join us! XD
I miss having lazy days. And that’s a cute way to have for Valentine’s tradition, very booknerd-y. 😀
They’re pretty rare around here, but I do try my best to have quiet weekends — working full-time and studying half-time is no joke.
Around the World in 80 Birds is on my TBR. How is it?
I liked it! I’ll be reviewing it soon.