What have you recently finished reading?

The last thing I finished was the first volume of the official English translation of the Heaven Official’s Blessing manhua. STARember’s art is gorgeous, and it’s a really nice edition. Before that, I finished Helen Gordon’s The Meteorites, which was okay but focused more on people’s reaction to meteorites than I was entirely interested in — I’m more into the science side of things (and even then, it’s not really one of my major interests). So not entirely what I was looking for, but a fun enough read.

What are you currently reading?

I have a few books on the go, but I’ve been kinda bouncing around and not super focused. The ones I’d like to sit down and finish today are Lisa Shearin’s The Grendel Affair — the title of which is annoyingly spoilery, and really should’ve been something else to my mind — and volume one of Priest’s Guardian. I’m close to finishing both.

I don’t think I’ll read the sequel to The Grendel Affair, because it just doesn’t stand out against other urban fantasy enough for me, but I’ll continue reading Guardian unless it weirdly jumps the shark in the last 70 pages. I have some theories about what’s happening, and there’s a nice simmering sense of longing going on, so looking forward to finishing it up and getting the next volume.

What will you be reading next?

I don’t really know, because I’ve been finding it hard to settle down to anything. I think I’ll probably focus on finishing up T. Kingfisher’s Snake-eater, which I was enjoying, and then perhaps focus on reading some of the manhwa and manhua I’ve been piling up.

Buuuut, as ever, it’ll be whatever I feel like in the moment.