Saturday again, huh? Time is flying by! Still not living in the new house for complicated reasons that I won’t go into here, but we’re getting closer to that point, and soon we’ll get my bookcases properly set up — including possibly two new ones. Exciting!

Books acquired this week

Nothing, really, but I will highlight a book I snagged on Kobo Plus! I’ll be getting myself a print copy in due course (KJ Charles’ work is an auto-buy for me), but in the meantime, I was very excited to realise this was on Kobo Plus.

I’m not sure when I’ll get to it, because I’m so behind on reading, but it’s very nice to have it there.

Posts from this week

It’s been a busy one! Let’s start with the reviews as always:

• Non-fiction: The Cleopatras, by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Classic children’s: The Moomins and the Great Flood, by Tove Jansson (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy manhua: Solo Leveling, vol 2, by Dubu & Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: The Baby Dragon Café, by A.T. Qureshi (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Poetry: Standing Female Nude, by Carol Ann Duffy (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Chinese Dress in Detail, by Sau Fong Chan (5/5 stars, “it was amazing”)
• Classic children’s: Comet in Moominland, by Tove Jansson (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

Other posts:

• Top Ten Tuesday: Titles with Honorifics
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• Discussion: Finishing 1-star reads

What I’m reading

I’ve done a lot of reading this week, but not such a lot of finishing books. I’ve lowered my reading goal for the year and am just accepting that giving everything that’s happened this year (losing Grandma, final exams, moving) it just isn’t happening, and that’s fine — it was a big goal anyway (400 books in the year).

So, no kicking myself, and anyway, I read fast and a lot compared to a lot of people! I’m doing just fine as long as I’m having fun.

Here are the books I finished this week that I’ll (eventually) review on the blog, though you can always check my StoryGraph to see my thoughts sooner if you like:

For this weekend, I’m not 100% sure what I’ll read, but more of T. Kingfisher’s Clockwork Boys, which I started on Thursday, is pretty much a certainty. Probably I’ll read more of Wendy A. Woloson’s Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, which I got back into this week.

But wherever my whim takes me, that’s just fine: “As my Whimsy takes me” is my motto too, in honour of a certain fictional character. (You get a lot of brownie points if you know who!)

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!