As promised last week, now I have many bookcases! And we’ll get the books from storage next week and get them all onto the shelves. I’m looking forward to it very much, it’ll really make things feel like home.

Anyway, let’s get to the books.

Books acquired this week

I didn’t get anything for myself — I’m trying not to get anything at the moment, because my birthday’s next month, and my 9th wedding anniversary (20th anniversary of us getting together), and I’m trying to cap how many books I buy without reading them, this year. I’m allowed 20 at a time bought this year and unread, and right now I’m at 15.

I need to get busy with reading, so my wife can spoil me a bit more!

I did get a book for my wife, though, and I might as well highlight that here, because I might read it eventually too:

I’m a wuss about horror, but it does sound intriguing, so I might give it a shot at some stage.

Posts from this week

Let’s start with the reviews, as usual:

• Fantasy romance: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter (manga), vol 2, by Kazuki Irodori (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Historical fantasy: Castle of the Winds, by Christina Baehr (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Epistolary novel: The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Historical romance: The Perks of Loving a Wallflower, by Erica Ridley (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• History: Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, by Paul Koudounaris (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Historical mystery: A Case of Life and Limb, by Sally Smith (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Romance manga: A Side Character’s Love Story, vol. 15, by Akane Tamura (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As a reminder, these aren’t the books I read this week, just the reviews that got posted. Sometimes I read less, sometimes I read more, so I save up reviews sometimes, and also try to give a bit of a range of genres rather than posting a glut of fantasy or non-fiction all at once. I’ll discuss what I’ve been reading this week below!

But first, the other posts from this week:

• Top Ten Tuesday: Secondary Fantasy Worlds
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

Now’s the part where I figure out what I’ve read this week and share some sneak previews. It’s been a busy week, it was surprisingly difficult to drag my mind back to the start of it… but here are the covers of the books I’ve read this week and intend to review on the blog (eventually)!

You can always check my StoryGraph if you’re interested in peeking at the reviews ahead of whenever they get posted on the blog. As you see, I read quite a lot this week, plus finished a reread of The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, vol 2, so I’m quite happy.

As for the weekend ahead, what will I read? I’m getting back into reading a book about Britain’s census, The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, by Roger Hutchinson, and I’ve been dipping in and out of A History of the World in 47 Borders, by Jonn Elledge. I might finish my reread of Vivian Shaw’s Dreadful Company, for a bit of fiction.

Or I might read something else altogether. Who knows?

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