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.
I love the cover of Southernmost Sonnets! And I’m curious about Stay For a Spell. Hope you have a good reading marathon!
I liked Stay for a Spell a lot — it’s cosy escapism that hasn’t quite thought the world through, I’d say, but still fun.
Hope you have a great week!
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Thanks, you too!
It is hard to finish a book when you are reading so many, LOL! Have a great weekend!
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I really did have a marathon yesterday and got sooo many books finished, ahaha.
Hope you get into Murder Like Clockwork. Some of these cozy mysteries can be humorous too.
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It sounds like it’s trying to emulate Golden Age mysteries a bit, or at least that’s the vibe I get, so I think I’ll like it. Here’s hoping!
Stay for a Spell looks so cute!
I really liked it! Very wish fulfillment, but that was nice.
A marathon sounds good for today—maybe I can do that this afternoon. I discovered that five books I put on hold long ago all arrived at the library for me yesterday, so I need to finish what I’m reading now and get to some of those. One of them is Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter. Enjoy your reading time!
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I read sooo much yesterday, haha. I’m taking it a bit easier today but I still want to fit in some reading. Hope you enjoy your reading time!
I’ve added Wolf Worm and And Side by Side We Wander to my TBR list.
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I liked both a lot, I’ll be curious to hear what you think!
Murder Like Clockwork sounds really good. I hope you enjoy it and have a great week!
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It sounds quite a classic premise, so I’m looking forward to giving it a shot!
It’s frustrating when they only offer pdf, the formatting is almost always awkward. Still I hope you enjoy the ARC
Wishing you a lovely reading week
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And I always forget to check… I wish I could just send all of them to my Kobo. Still, at least they added Kobo for some of them!
Happy reading! I really enjoy The Keeper of Magical Things.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
I liked it too.