What have you recently finished reading?

Several volumes of the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manhua! I’m quite enjoying it, because having read the light novel recently, it’s helping the plot and characters fall into place, little details I didn’t notice are popping out, and stuff I couldn’t picture (due to having aphantasia) is, well, right there, by the very nature of the medium. I’m on the Yi City arc, having my heart broken all over again.

What are you currently reading?

A couple of things, but most actively it’s Alice Roberts’ Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity. So far it’s low on Roman Empire and high on Celtic Christianity, largely using sources like hagiographies and place names, which is a bit slow. The next section says it’s about archaeology, though, and I look forward to that — I’ve loved Roberts’ books like Ancestors and Crypt, and I think the archaeology is likely to be a strong point of the book.

It’s fundamentally not my interest, though — I’m more reading it because I like Roberts’ other books — so I imagine I’ll be working through it for a while.

What will you be reading next?

Needless to say, it’ll be more of the MDZS manhua… but other than that, I hope to get back to Heather Fawcett’s Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter, and maybe Molly O’Neill’s Nightshade & Oak, since both of them are books I received to review.

Excitingly I also have the next Singing Hills novella by Nghi Vo, so that might jump the queue.