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:Â 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.
You’ve been a busy reader. I hope you are finding some good new book friends among the many.
I have, it’s been a good reading week, thanks!
Cat + Gamer and Sanctuary are calling to me! Hope you have a good week, and enjoy your books
Both are really fun manga — I like Dinosaur Sanctuary a biiiit more, but Cat + Gamer is cute silly fun.
I like how you highlight so many genres and add the links. Looking into that Lego book and the posthumous manuscripts books. They would make good additions to the 2026 nonfiction reading challenge I’m joining.
They were both so good, hope you enjoy!
Hope you have a great week!
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I’m glad you are still getting some reading time in. I’m especially curious about the book on Legos.
The manga sounds like fun!
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I really liked it, gave me such a respect for the Lego company’s values, too.
Enjoy whatever you choose!
I’m still hoping to be caught up on reviews by the end of the year but I don’t think I’ll quite make it.
Wishing you a wonderful week
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Thank you!
Fortunately mine are all written but there’s 60+ to post so… I don’t think I’ll get them posted ahaha. (It’s nice to have a backlog to cover gaps, but yeesh.)
Enjoy your manga! I hope you’re having a good week.
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I’ve got a whole bunch of backlogged reviews too and I just spent the last two or three weeks catching up on writing them for all the books I’ve read since October! I don’t read as much as you do, but writing them got me exhausted! I still have 7-8 books to go before I’m all caught up, but it’s possible I’d have read more by the time I get to those
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At least mine are all written! It’s just posting them, ahaha.