Here we are again, another weekend! Monday sees me back at work, but this week has still been my time off, though I haven’t spent as much time reading as I would’ve liked.

Books acquired this week

It’s been a quiet week on this front, though I did receive a finished print copy of Heather Fawcett’s Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter. I received the eARC a few weeks ago, but I’m really grateful to Hachette for sending me a physical copy too — I’d actually thought I wasn’t selected, so it was a surprise to get the shipping info a couple of days ago!

I also borrowed a new book from the National Poetry Library:

But, overall, a quiet week.

Posts from this week

As usual, let’s start with the review roundup!

• Gaming artbook: Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail – The Art of Succession: – Relics of Heritage – (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Non-fiction: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, by Cory Doctorow (4/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Fantasy manga: The Light Conjurer, vol 1, by Gene (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Fantasy romance: Paladin’s Faith, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Science/history: The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space & Deep Time, by Helen Gordon (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• History: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability, by Annette Kehnel (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 13, by Dubu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And the non-review posts:

• Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Discoveries of 2025 (top ten new-to-me authors)
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• 2025 End of Year Reading Survey

What I’m reading

I said I wasn’t reading as much as I’d hoped, but let’s take a look at the books I’ve managed to finish this week anyway!

So not the worst progress either!

I’m not sure what I’ll read this weekend, but right now I’m thinking of working to finish up Heather Fawcett’s Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter and T. Kingfisher’s Snake-eater, and I’m also partway through Smart Devices, the poetry collection I borrowed this week. Maybe I’ll read some manhwa too, to help catch up a bit to my reading goal before I get too far behind — but only if the whim strikes me, as always!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at The Book Date.