What have you recently finished reading?

The last thing I finished was John Allison and Max Sarin’s The Great British Bump-Off, which is a comic based on shows like the Great British Bake-Off that also features, gasp, murder! Nobody actually dies in the course of the comic, actually, and it’s mostly a light-hearted giggle at the show/competition format with some classic mystery references and tropes. Pretty fun, and the art was nice, but not very substantial.

What are you currently reading?

I’ve started on volume five of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, but life keeps getting in the way enough that I end up not quite in the mood. I reaaaaally want to finish it soon though. It’s grown on me as I went through the story, especially as I got used to the abrupt time transitions; I think I still like SVSSS and TGCF more, but it is fun.

I’m also reading Susan Gilruth’s Death in Ambush, this year’s Christmas-themed offering from the British Library Crime Classics series. It doesn’t actually feel very Christmassy, honestly; there’s some mention of buying Christmas presents, and putting up some decorations, but it’s more like a mystery that happens to be set around Christmas than one which uses Christmas for… any reason, really. The murder isn’t related to Christmas, there’s no requirement for footsteps in the snow, Christmas doesn’t seem to inform the timing… it’s not even really part of the atmosphere. Ah well, I’m not much for seasonally themed books usually anyway.

What will you be reading next?

I’m planning to read Dolki Min’s novella Walking Practice today, for something short and sweet (well, sort of). It’s a bit of a random choice, not something I’ve seen other people talking about, but it came up in my recommendations on Kobo, and it’s in Kobo Plus, so I figured I might as well give it a shot.