Yay, weekend! My week hasn’t been that busy, but it’s been a lot of time spent not reading, when I’m decidedly in the mood to read.
Hope everyone else has had a good week!
Books acquired this week
This week it’s “just” ARCs — two eARCs, and one book that arrived in the mail a little unexpectedly. Thank you Tor and Hachette.
I was especially excited to see the new Nghi Vo (thank goodness for my autoapproval!), but the highlight was A Letter from the Lonesome Shore, which I hadn’t been expecting though I had tentatively reached out asking for it.
Posts from this week
As usual, here’s a roundup of reviews to start with…
- Fantasy: The Unmaking of June Farrow, by Adrienne Young (2/5 stars)
- Classic mystery: Scarhaven Keep, by J.S. Fletcher (3/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu (4/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, by Liz Pelly (4/5 stars)
And a couple of non-review posts this week:
What I’m reading
Let’s close as usual with what I’ve recently finished and what I’m planning to read this weekend. First a sneak peek at books I intend to review soon that I finished this week:
I’ve been deep in some chonky books like The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts (Anne Lawrence-Mathers) and A Short History of British Architecture (Simon Jenkins), so I’ll read a bit more of those this weekend, but I’m also planning to delve into more classic mystery with Fiona Sinclair’s Scandalize My Name and a short story collection edited by Martin Edwards, Metropolitan Mysteries. Other than that, I’ve also started on T. Kingfisher’s Paladin’s Grace… so I have plenty to keep me busy.
Hope everyone’s having a good weekend!
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
Sounds like you have some good reading to enjoy!
And some time to enjoy it, which is half the battle, haha!
That’s a lot of reading. Mine has been slower than normal lately. I hope you enjoy your books and have a great week!
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I expect I’ll have to slow down again soon, with my exams coming, but I’m enjoying it while I can…
I had to look up “chonky.” I like that description for books. A bit like cozy, I think. I hope you get some good reading time in this weekend!
So far so good! I haven’t finished many books, but just followed my whim around a whole stack of them. Whatever works!
I need to add Automatic Noodle and A Mouthful of Dust to my TBR!
I thought Automatic Noodle fizzled out a bit, but a lot of people seem to love it. A Mouthful of Dust is classic Nghi Vo, I liked it!
Hope you get the reading in you wanted this weekend!
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Thank you! I did. Or rather, I’d always like to read more, but I fit in a lot of reading time, and it was a lot of fun.
I’ll be interested to hear what you thought about Baby Dragon Cafe! I have it, but haven’t read it yet.
Have a great week!
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I thought it was fun light reading! I should post the review soon, since it’s Wyrd & Wonder (a fantasy-themed reading event) at the moment. 😀
That’s too bad you couldn’t spend as much time reading as you wanted to. Your new ARCs all look so good. That cover of A Letter from the Lonesome Shore is stunning. I hope they’re all good ones. I have The Baby Dragon Cafe on my wishlist, so I am curious to hear your thoughts on that one. Have a great week!
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The Baby Dragon Cafe is fun light reading, but it’s very light, and the fantasy elements feel a bit… unintegrated? Casual? Still, it’s fun!