Good morning! Hope everyone’s doing well.
Books acquired this week
I got woken up today by the arrival of a big package of books for me, which I got myself as a reward for filing my taxes. Turns out I’ve saved up waaaay more money than I need for my taxes, so I released some from my tax budget. Most of it’s gone to the moving budget etc etc, but I gave myself enough for a treat.
Still, those books haven’t been unboxed and accessioned (so to speak) yet, so I haven’t saved and uploaded their covers yet. You’ll have to wait until next week! I’ll have a preorder and a gift arriving too, so it’ll be quite the haul: I might split it across two weeks.
Posts from this week
Here we go, the usual roundup!
- Classic crime: Not to Be Taken, by Anthony Berkeley (4/5 stars)
- Non-fiction: The Virtues of Underwear: Modest, Flamboyance and Filth, by Nina Edwards (3/5 stars)
- Classic horror: Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (3/5 stars)
- Fantasy manga: A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, vol 7, by Misaki, Momochi, et al (4/5 stars)
- SF novella: Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz (2/5 stars)
- Fantasy novella: A Mouthful of Dust, by Nghi Vo (4/5 stars)
- Classic crime: Scandalize My Name, by Fiona Sinclair (3/5 stars)
I’m making sure to post a review every day, even when I have other features, to catch up a bit with the backlog. It’s good to have a backlog, and to have them all ready, but at my previous posting rate the pile of reviews would just keep building up and up!
What I’m reading
Let’s start first with the usual sneak peek at the books I’ll be reviewing… sometime, when I get through the pile (though review copies get prioritised for reviewing sooner).
I did some rereading as well, so that was a pretty busy and satisfying week of reading!
I have some more rereading planned for this week, but I’ll also dig into Sorcery and Small Magics (Maiga Doocy) and Advocate (Daniel M. Ford), both of which I’ve been looking forward to for a while. All in all, I hope to spend plenty of time reading, since it’s clearly what I’m in the mood for: I managed to read five hours on one workday, this week, which… is quite the feat, compared to usual.
Hope everyone has an excellent weekend, with exactly as much reading as desired!
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!
You should feel no qualms about spending a significant part of your tax savings on books! I look forward to hearing more about your book purchases and your thoughts about them in upcoming posts.
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I look forward to seeing what you received in your book delivery. I am also packing for moving. Most of my books are packed but thank goodness for a Kindle.