It’s the weekend again, and I’m going into it more rested than I came out of my holiday. How? I don’t know! But there it is.
Books acquired this week
I started reading the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manhua last weekend, and ended up steaming through it. Since it caught my reading mood, I decided I’d check how much Bookshop.org credit I had, and whether I had any Waterstones stamp cards completed. I had plenty of credit, and two stamp cards complete, so I indulged!
I also preordered volume 13, which luckily is due out in March (and completes the main story). I wonder if there’ll be a volume covering the extras, or at least some of them? I have no idea, but at least volume 13 will round off the main story.
This month’s British Library Crime Classic subscription book also arrived, and it’s a new-to-me E.C.R. Lorac book, which is excellent news!
Finally, I also got some review copies via Netgalley. First up was Nghi Vo’s newest in the Singing Hills series, which is a series I really adore, and then the new T. Kingfisher! I haven’t read Swordheart yet, but this gives me extra impetus to get on with it and do so.
I haven’t read as much poetry this week, but I did snag two more collections to try from the National Poetry Library:
Loans from the National Poetry Library only last 14 days, so I need to get round to these two sooner rather than later. I already read Altar, but I need to get round to the Rilke too.
Posts from this week
As usual, let’s start with the roundup of reviews:
- Poetry anthology: Smart Devices, ed. Carol Rumens (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
- Magic realism: We’ll Prescribe You A Cat, by Syou Ishida (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
- Collected webcomic: Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness, by Melani Sie (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Romance manga: Do You Really Want Only a Meal? vol 1, by Yasu Tadano (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Fantasy romance (danmei):Â Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation light novel vol 4, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
- Non-fiction: Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, by Tiffany Jenkins (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
- Poetry: Food for the Dead, by Charlotte Shevchenko Knight (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
And there were a couple of other posts!
What I’m reading
It’s been a good reading week! Or at least it felt like one, and that’s what counts. It’s mostly been manhua, not too surprisingly, but there’s a couple of other books in there too. Here’s what I finished up this week that I plan to review on the blog:
 
 
Reading plans for the weekend… well, more manhua, for sure, and more of T. Kingfisher’s Wolf Worm, and back to my reread of Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills novellas ready for the new one!
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.
It’s interesting how you are able to check out poetry from the National Poetry Library. That’s a great way to share poetry. I hope you are able to get to it in the time frame.
And it’s great that you found you had credits and were able to get some new reads.
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I will probably buy Daggerbound at some point, as long as it matches the sprayed edges copy of Swordheart! Which I also have to read first