Happy New Year! And happy weekend, too.
Books acquired this week
Time for more of my Christmas haul! Part one (with the light novels and some non-fiction) was last week’s post here. I’ll go for the fiction now — and there’s a lot of that too!
So that’s really exciting… and that’s still not all! I also got some more miscellaneous non-fiction:
Aaaaand as if all that wasn’t enough, I’ve used my trade-in credits to get myself the remainder of the Solo Leveling series (light novel version) and the first two volumes of the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint manhwa.
Right! That’s everything caught up, so my posts will be back to a more usual number of books, ahaha.
Posts from this week
As usual, let’s do a bit of a roundup of reviews:
- Fantasy: The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Classic crime: Death in Ambush, by Susan Gilruth (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Non-fiction: Fabulous Frocks, by Jane Eastoe and Sarah Gristwood (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Poetry: Finding My Elegy, by Ursula Le Guin (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Plus these non-review posts:
- Top Ten Tuesday: Recent Additions (with some commentary, so not just a repeat of my STS posts!)
- What Are You Reading Wednesday
What I’m reading
I was a busy reader this last week, making sure to reach my goal of reading 400 books in 2025! Here’s a sneak peek at what I’ve been reading and plan to review on the blog sometime soon (eventually):
For this weekend, I’m planning to read more of the Solo Leveling light novel, get a bit further with Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak and… who knows what else!?
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.
Your book numbers blow me away! Congrats on making your goal. I’m curious about Wearing the Lion and a few others. Enjoy
Wow! You read so many books in 2025. Amazing.
And you sure received a lot of great books this Christmas. Enjoy!
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You had a great Christmas book haul – you could open your own little library!
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“Enshitification” and “Like” are both tempting me, and I added them to my list. I have a very specific memory of California kids using “like” (or maybe over=using it) in 1983! I wonder if this is the first book about that all-purpose word.
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I didn’t know Ursula Lequin wrote poetry. Glad you liked it.
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Enshitification, what a funny word, was on a lot of best books lists at the end of the year. I think people liked it double because of the name. Happy New Year.
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