Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted December 27, 2025 by Nicky in General / 28 Comments

Happy weekend! I hope everyone who was celebrating had a good Christmas, or indeed any other holiday you might’ve been celebrating!

Books acquired this week

As in previous years, I’m going to split my Christmas haul into a couple of different posts, because it’s a lot! First up, a bunch of light novels (some danmei, some not):

Cover of Legend of Exorcism vol 1 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang Cover of Remnants of Filth vol 1 by Ruo Bao Bu Chi Rou Cover of Thrice Married to a Salted Fish vol 1 by Bi Ka Bi Cover of Joyful Reunion vol 1 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Cover of Solo Leveling (light novel) vol 2, by Chugong Cover of Solo Leveling (light novel) vol 3, by Chugong Cover of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint vol 2 by singNSong

A couple of those are the special editions, too! I got Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint vol 2 for myself, actually, and promptly devoured it.

Also, I was very pleased to get those two volumes of Solo Leveling — I started the first volume on Christmas Morning, and was absolutely tearing through it, and already beginning to pout about the idea of having to wait to get my hands on the next volumes (if only due to shipping being delayed over Christmas/New Year, since I do have some Bookshop.org credit from trade-ins). Welp, my sister-in-law to be had me covered!

Aaand of course I got a bunch of new non-fiction to read!

Cover of Cat Tales: A History by Jerry D. Moore Cover of Enbers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough Cover of Domination by Alice Roberts Cover of Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy

Cover of Vanished Wales by Carwyn Jones Cover of Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn Jones Cover of Repast: The Story of Food, by Jenny Linford Cover of Craft Land: A Journey through Britain's Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades, by James Fox

Looking forward to digging in. It’s a mix of different themes, as you can see!

Posts from this week

I kept it light this week, in part just to chill out, and in part because I was quite busy with Christmas prep. (I did mostly manage to stay chill with the Christmas prep, due to being quite organised, but Christmas Eve was a bit packed.) Still, there are a couple of reviews to highlight:

Plus a quick What Are You Reading Wednesday post!

What I’m reading

Since I had time off this week, I did manage to fit in quite a bit of reading around Christmas stuff! Here’s a peek at the books I plan to review on the blog:

Cover of Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley et al Cover of The Palace of Illusions by Rowena Miller Cover of Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird Cover of Cat + Gamer vol 5 by Wataru Nadatani Cover of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint vol 2 by singNSong

Cover of Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure, by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin Cover of The Hungry Empire by Lizzie Collingham Cover of Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail -- the Art of Succession -Relics of Heritage- Cover of Vanished Wales by Carwyn Jones

As for this weekend… I have a lot of new books to choose from, it’s hard to pick! I’ll at least start by finishing the first volume of the Solo Leveling light novel, I think, and then go from there, but I expect I’ll pick up some new non-fiction.

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

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28 responses to “Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post”

  2. Harvee

    Cat Tales looks interesting. The Japanese love to put cats into their lighter fiction, sci fi and fantasy books. I guess cats have a mystique over in the East!

    I watched a funny Christmas movie on Netflix – Man vs Baby, starring the guy who plays Mr. Bean. He is as funny as ever.

    Have a great new year holiday.
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  3. mae

    The Viking history looks interesting — I’ve read a few books about that era, and visited the site of a briefly-inhabited settlement in Greenland a few years ago. My favorite book on the subject is The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown.
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    • Nicky

      Haha, my wife went absolutely ham on my wishlist, and with my sister and her fiancée also buying, and my parents… I was properly spoiled!

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    • Nicky

      I’m definitely looking forward to digging into them.

      I’ve talked a number of times about that, e.g. in this post. Short version: sometimes I just don’t know how I’ll rate a book until I can see it as a whole, sometimes I really want to write a fair review, sometimes I’m curious about a book on a more academic level, etc.

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    • Nicky

      I’m looking forward to that one! I don’t know a lot about Welsh food and food history, other than picau ar y maen, bara brith and cawl.

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    • Nicky

      I’ll probably be posting the review quite soon since it’s a science-focused book and I don’t have many of those handy! (I like to spread out my review genres a bit and provide variety.) It was good!

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