Hurrah, weekend. Obviously things are still a bit subdued around here (re: the loss of a pet last week), and I’m working over the weekend, but there’s still a bit more reading time and that’s always good.

Books acquired this week

This week it’s just my British Library Crime Classic. Now I have the subscription, I don’t keep good track of what’s coming out — so I was excited that this month’s was an E.C.R. Lorac title!

I might dig into that this weekend.

Posts from this week

I’ve eased back on posting my review backlog for a bit: the major backlog is in comics, but I don’t like to post too many reviews of the same type of thing at a time, so I’m waiting to have finished a couple more books of different genres to create variety. Still, there’s been plenty of reviews without so many extras, so here’s the roundup!

• Romance manga: Love in the Palm of His Hand, by Rinteku (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Horror: Into the Dark, by Jordan L. Hawk (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Historical mystery: The Wages of Sin, by Kaite Welsh (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fashion history: Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail, by Lucy Johnston (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks, by Daniel Konstanski (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 9, by Dubu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish, vol 2, by Xue Shan Fei Hu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy mystery: Baking Bad, by Kim M. Watt (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club, by Christopher de Hamel (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And the usual disclaimer that I didn’t read any of these books in the last week, I have reviews backlogged out anywhere from days to months depending on the genre! Books I read this week are below.

What I’m reading

There was plenty more manga this week, but also I did manage to get back into reading more long-form stuff somewhat and finally finished reading Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. Here’s a sneak peek at the stuff I plan to review!

My plans for the weekend involve reading Feng Ren Zuo Shu’s The Beauty’s Blade and… I’m not sure what else. I made a start on Rowenna Miller’s The Palace of Illusions, which is pretty seasonally appropriate, so perhaps I’ll focus on that. Or maybe I’ll read that new E.C.R. Lorac reprint!

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