Greetings! It’s been a quiet-ish week for me in most respects, though the new raid tier has been released in FFXIV, and the Savage version releases on Tuesday, so getting ready for that is keeping me busy.
But we’re here to talk about books, so let’s get to that.
Books acquired this week
I didn’t get chance to go to the library this week, and though I technically have some money to buy a couple of books, I haven’t 100% decided which to get, so this week there’s just one book, the latest British Library Crime Classic via my subscription. It’s a bit late this month because of printing issues, and it doesn’t seem to have a matching bookmark, which makes me very sad.
I have mixed feelings; I like reading the novels from this series as an academic interest, but sometimes misogyny etc bleed through, and that’s the case with several of Anthony Berkeley’s books, if not all. Still, I’ll give it a shot.
Posts from this week
Time for a roundup!
- Mystery: The Leavenworth Case, by Anna K. Green (2/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Book Curses, by Eleanor Baker (4/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind, by Richard Fortey (3/5 stars)
- Graphic novel romance: If You’ll Have Me, by Eunnie (4/5 stars)
- Fantasy novella: The Bloodless Princes, by Charlotte Bond (3/5 stars)
What I’m reading
I’ve fit in quite a bit of reading considering how much I’ve been playing FFXIV, so let’s start with the usual peek at the books I’ve finished this week which I plan to review on the blog:
Not sure what’s next, actually, but I’ll be following my whim as always.
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 have to look up the crime classic series you subscribe to. Are you able to pick from multiple titles or are you surprised by the latest offering?
It’s always the book they publish that month, so you can’t catch up on the older books that way. You can always find out what you’re getting by checking the publication schedule, but I don’t always look. I know I’ll want them all, hehe.
I like to read a lot of old books, and I still haven’t come up with a good way to deal with the old ways of thinking that often appear in those stories. It’s good, I think, in one way to read about the ways things were; we have to know about the ways things were to be able to move forward (and not slip back into those old ways). But it’s also painful to read about such things. Old children’s books almost always include lines like those I read recently in Snow Treasure (first published in 1942), saying that “even girls” could help with the effort to smuggle gold in Norway from the Nazi invaders.
Yeah, some of it is very obvious and other stuff is just casually slipped in there because it was so pervasive. Usually since it’s unlikely to be benefitting a living author, I don’t mind buying, but I try to remember bringing it up in my review.
It’s not only old classics but even some books from as short as 10 years ago have things that now would make me cringe. Weird.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
That’s true enough! Some things move quickly, and some of us have had some real awakenings just in my adult lifetime, depending on our subgroups!
I’m a few books behind on my reviews, too, but not too far off. I sometimes get ambushed by my reviews stacking up. What is the Jane Austen book you are reviewing? I couldn’t read the title.
I’m not behind on writing reviews at all, it’s just that I don’t post them all at once (there’s currently 60 in the queue, after all).
The Jane Austen book is Jane Austen in 41 Objects — you can always click on just about any image in a post on my blog and it’ll expand to see the full image. Here’s the full cover link from above, if you want to get a better look.