Woooo, weekend time! And I have plans. Reading plans.

Books acquired this week

First up, some poetry via the library:

It seems to be really popular — I had to put a hold on it (and I was third in the queue), and there’s one person after me, so I should get to this soon. From my (short) experience of being a National Poetry Library member, it’s rare to need to put a hold on books (even award winners), much less see multiple holds on it, so I’m very curious about why. My hopes are high!

I did also get a review copy this week; I hesitated over accepting it because it’s a PDF, and because I don’t always get on with modern crime/mystery stories… but I figured I’d give it a shot.

Though I don’t know when I’ll get to it, ahaha.

Posts from this week

Let’s start with the review roundup, as usual:

• Horror: Wolf Worm, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• SF novella: And Side By Side We Wander, by Molly Tanzer (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Posted in the Past: Revealing the True Stories Written on a Postcard, by Helen Baggott (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Poetry: Hedonism, by Chris McCabe (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy comic: The Chromatic Fantasy, by H.A. (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• SF: Longer, by Michael Blumlein (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Fantasy romance (baihe): The Beauty’s Blade, by Feng Ren Zuo Shu (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

Aaand the other posts:

• Fantasy With Friends Discussion Meme: The Chosen One
• Top Ten Tuesday: Quotations
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

I’ve read quite a bit this week, but I haven’t finished many books (I expect that to happen in a marathon this weekend, ahaha). So it’s a short round-up of books I’ve finished this week:

If I want to get a blackout on my BookSpinBingo card (and I do!) then today will be spent reading a lot. I first plan to finish up reading the new Murderbot, Platform Decay, and (finally) Heather Fawcett’s Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter, but I have a few books close to finished, so they won’t be the only ones.

I’m rather looking forward to my marathon reading today, but probably tomorrow I’ll chill with video games a bit more, ahaha.

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.