Wooo, weekend! This one feels much-needed.
Books acquired this week
Just one this week! I’ve been waiting for this book for a bit, so hurrah for its arrival:
I need to read it soon because I’m considering it as a Christmas gift for someone, so I might get started very soon.
Reviews from this week
I’ve continued posting extra reviews from the backlog of (ready-written) reviews I have to post, catching myself up a bit on the backlog. So a roundup definitely seems like a good idea! As ever, click the links to read the full review.
- Poetry: So Far So Good, by Ursula Le Guin (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Non-fiction: Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, by Dan Saladino (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Graphic novel: The Deep Dark, by Lee Knox Ostertag (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Fantasy romance: The Honey Witch, by Sydney J. Shields (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
- Gothic mystery: All of Us Murderers, by KJ Charles (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Poetry: Door into the Dark, by Seamus Heaney (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Non-fiction: No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality, by Molly Conisbee (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Non-fiction: Vaccines: A Graphic History, by Paige V. Polinsky (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
- Romance manga: In Love’s Key, Reprised, by Guri Nojiro (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Fantasy: The Bookshop Below, by Georgia Summers (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Reminder: I read most of these months ago, my ratings here don’t indicate whether I had a good or bad reading week!
What I’m reading
I’ve had a pretty slow reading week! I had quite a few books in progress at once, but I didn’t finish a lot, since I wasn’t really in the mood (in part because my attention got swallowed by playing the game Dispatch). Ah well! Here are the books I did finish and intend to review on the blog:
I’m not sure what I’ll be reading this weekend, to be honest. I have several books on the go, so I’d like to finish some of them! First target: probably As If By Magic, a collection of classic crime stories. But we’ll see how it goes.
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.
When I saw Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, by Dan Saladino on your list, and when I saw how much you liked it, I immediately thought of Mae. I wonder if she has read this one. It sounds intriguing to me.
I’m not sure what I’m going to read next either. I’ve read a lot of nonfiction this month, and I’d like to spend next month reading some light fiction. But light fiction does not always work for me.
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There are some really fascinating foods mentioned!
I think I’m going to read some graphic novels and manga this weekend as a palate cleanser, probably. Other than that, eh, we’ll see where my whim takes me!
I had a slow reading week too. I think it’s just the distractions that come this time of year. Hopefully we both get a lot of reading in this week!
I was mostly distracted by a new videogame to be honest, ahaha. I’ve had quite a good weekend for reading so far, though!
An interesting mix of books there over whatever period of time they are from!
Have a great weekend!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/stacking-the-shelves-129/
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog recently posted…Sunday Post/Sunday Salon
Thank you!
Wow you have posted so many reviews!!!
And such a backlog still to post, haha.
You normally read so much in a week it’s ok to take a breather.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
I made up for it this weekend and read a ton, hahaha.
Hope you have a great week!
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Thanks.
That’s great to get some backlog reviews up! Hope you’re able to keep up with what you are doing and have a great week!
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Thank you!
I have been wanting to read All of Us Murderers! I am glad to hear that it was good!
It really goes to town with the gothic plot, I had a lot of fun.