Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted September 20, 2025 by Nicky in General / 28 Comments

Welp, I’m back home! And taking a couple of days off to turn this into a long weekend and get some chill time, because oooof.

Books acquired this week

This week featured a quick library trip to grab my hold, and a few impulsive/random choices!

Cover of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murders by Jesse Q. Sutanto Cover of The Hero by Lee Child

Cover of Missel-Child by Helen Tookey Cover of The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion Cover of Magnetic Field by Simon Armitage

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers was the hold, the others were random choices. Of the poetry, I know I like some of Simon Armitage’s work, but Andrew Motion’s has previously left me cold and I don’t think I’ve read anything by Helen Tookey before, except maaaaybe in an anthology. So we’ll see how I get on with those — I’ve already made a start!

I did also snag a book from Netgalley because I felt like reading a novella, I have auto-approval, and… dinosaurs.

Cover of Boy, With Accidental Dinosaur, by Ian McDonald

Posts from this week

I kept up posting, mostly, though I skipped Top Ten Tuesday this week due to a combo of circumstances and a prompt that didn’t call to me. So it’s mostly reviews:

And I did post a What Are You Reading Wednesday post!

What I’m reading

I’ve been reading a lot again this week, especially with being mostly offline from Saturday through to late night on Tuesday! Here’s the usual sneak peek at what I’ve finished and plan to review on the blog — it doesn’t look quite as impressive as last week, but some of the books were quite long/slow.

Cover of Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape by Carwyn Graves Cover of The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry by David Musgrove and Michael John Lewis Cover of The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag Cover of Deadly Earnest by Joan Cockin

Cover of Reignclowd Palace by Philippa Rice Cover of The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood Cover of Copper Script by KJ Charles Cover of City of Ravens by Boria Sax

Cover of The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man's Wife by Premee Mohamed Cover of Missel-Child by Helen Tookey Cover of The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

I’m not sure what I’ll focus on over the weekend, yet. Maybe I’ll finally start on KJ Charles’ The Duke at Hazard, and there’s a good chance I’ll start reading another British Library Crime Classics collection (probably Blood on the Tracks)… but to be honest, I haven’t settled to anything yet!

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

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28 responses to “Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post”

  3. harvee

    I’m looking forward to the Vera Wong book. When I get the chance. Sutanto also has a new book in the works, on NetGalley. If you read her books too…

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  8. Vicki

    My great granddaughter’s baby shower and first birthday party themes were dinosaurs. She’s 5 now and still loves them.

    I hope you enjoy your books.

    I love taking vacations but I also love being back home.
    Vicki recently posted…Sunday Salon: 9/21/25My Profile

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    • Nicky

      Yes, that’s half of what drew me to it, ahaha.

      I liked Deadly Earnest — it’s a very typical classic mystery, it doesn’t stand out a huge amount in those terms, but I do like and seek that out sometimes. Classic crime is so satisfyingly predictable in key ways.

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