Weekend time! And nearly the end of the month too; I cannot believe it’s about to be December.

Books acquired this week

This week we have two books acquired to review! Both from Netgalley; I’ve not been lucky enough (so far at least) to get physical copies.

I’m excited for both! Technically I got the version of Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter with the UK cover, but I like this one better and I already had it saved, sooo. There you are.

Posts from this week

I’ve continued posting extras to get to grips with the pre-written review backlog, so there’s a bunch again for the roundup this week! As ever, don’t forget that most of them are books I read weeks/months ago by this point, so it doesn’t reflect this week’s reading. That’s below in the “What I’m reading” section!

• Crime: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Non-fiction: Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside: Treasure and Ghosts in the London Clay, by Victoria Shepherd (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Prose-poetry: Seeing Stars, by Simon Armitage (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 8, by Dubu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: Paladin’s Hope, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Classic crime: Jumping Jenny, by Anthony Berkeley (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: The House Dress: A Story of Eroticism and Fashion, by Elda Danese (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: The Book of Were-Wolves: Were-Wolf History and Folklore, by Sabine Baring-Gould (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Young adult: Felix Ever After, by Kacen Callender (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Young adult horror: Hold Back the Tide, by Melinda Salisbury (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

Aaand if you were curious (as people often are) about why I bother to finish/rate/review low-star reads, I wrote about that not so long ago.

What I’m reading

After a quiet reading week last week, I finished eight books last weekend, so this was a bit more action-packed (inasfar as reading is action). Here’s a sneak peek at the ones I intend to review on the blog sometime:

 

As you see, I’ve been busy, though my reading did slow down after the weekend.

As for the weekend’s plans, I’m not sure. I’ve finished my Book Spin Bingo card early for once, so I think I might chill with some manga/graphic novels, and maybe read volume four of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. As ever, though, it’s down to my whim!

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