It’s the weekend, and I at least am very ready for it!
Books acquired this week
My monthly British Library Crime Classic arrived! Not one of the authors I like best, but it should be fun anyway.
I’ve started on it already.
Posts from this week
Time for a bit of a roundup, especially since I’ve been posting extra reviews this week. I still have many more waiting to be posted, but hopefully with a couple extra per week, I won’t get a post backlog that’s too silly… As usual, here are all the links to the full reviews!
- SF novella: Boy, With Accidental Dinosaur, by Ian McDonald (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
- Historical romance: The Duke at Hazard, by KJ Charles (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Science: The Genetic Lottery, by Kathryn Paige Harden (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
- History:Â Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Mystery: Mockingbird Court, by Juneau Black (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 7, by Dubu & Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Fantasy novella: Audition for the Fox, by Martin Cahill (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Non-fiction: The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers, by Helen Lewis (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Classic: The Vampyre, by John William Polidori (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
- Mystery: I Could Murder Her, by E.C.R. Lorac (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Other posts:
What I’m reading
It’s been a bit of a quieter week, reading-wise, with some pretty disappointing reads. Ah well, it happens! Here’s a peek as usual at the books I intend to review on the blog:
Over the weekend… I’ll probably work on finishing up with Christianna Brand’s Death in High Heels, which I have in progress, and I hope to get chance to read more of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation too. Other than that, I’m not sure; I randomly started on Andrew Ziminski’s Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles last night, and might focus on that.
In the end, though, it’s all down to whatever whim strikes me!
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.
My husband and I both started to read The Genetic Lottery, but did not find it well-written, and did not find the science very satisfying to read about, as there aren’t many conclusive experiments. (note: He’s a scientist.)
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