Happy weekend! And happy start of my time off — I won’t go back to work until 2nd February. I don’t often take chunks of time off, so this is nice.
Books acquired this week
This week has been kind of busy, between some review books, some more manhwa from my wife to keep me occupied, and my British Library Crime Classics subscription book! Let’s take a look — first the new manhwa…
Next up, my review copies, thanks to Hachette (who sent me a finished copy of Nightshade & Oak in the post) and Tor (via Netgalley):
 
I’m a little hesitant about both Wolf Worm and The Poet Empress, because I’ve heard the former is genuinely pretty scary, and the latter is pretty dark… but ultimately I was tempted enough to request them anyway.
Finally, here’s the British Library Crime Classic for this month. I’ve enjoyed a couple of Gilbert’s books before, so I’m curious!
Hopefully this should be more than enough to keep me busy during my time off!
Posts from this week
Alright, that’s enough of that! Now for the roundup of what I’ve been posting this week…
- Fantasy manhwa:Â Solo Leveling, vol 11, by Dubu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Fantasy: Greenteeth, by Molly O’Neill (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Classic crime:Â Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Non-fiction: Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language, by Adam Aleksic (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Non-fiction: Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-making through Pleasure, by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Romance/post-apocalyptic manga: Loving You When the World Ended, by Gene (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
And other posts:
- Recommend Reading Challenges — I’m feeling in the mood to take on some new monthly/yearly challenges, got recs?
- Top Ten Tuesday: 2026 Releases (First Half)
- What Are You Reading Wednesday
What I’m reading
Amongst all that busy work, I haven’t been reading a lot this week, but I did get a couple of things finished and read a few manga. Here’s a peek at what I read this week and intend to review on the blog:
Not sure what I’ll be reading this weekend — maybe I’ll get stuck into the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint manhwa, or one of the books I’ve received to review.
Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.
The classic crime series is great — I have so many on my list to be read. How nice that you have time off of work.
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I enjoy it, I’ve been really happy with my subscription that gets the new book sent to me each month!
I’m curious about The Poet Empress, and i have heard it’s much darker than readers expected. Also I’d love to see what you think about the Molly Tanzer. I read a book of hers years ago and it was super weird!