Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted March 7, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Aaand it’s the weekend again!

Books acquired this week

It’s been a quiet week, but my wife did acquire me the new Uketsu novel:

I’ve been wanting to read it basically since I finished Strange Houses, so I was pretty excited and dove in right away.

Posts from this week

As ever, we’ll start with the reviews:

History: The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World, by Lizzie Collingham (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Poetry: Seasonal Disturbances, by Karen McCarthy Woolf (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Fantasy graphic novel: Iyanu: Child of Wonder, by Roye Okupe & Godwin Akpan (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Fantasy: Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter, by Heather Fawcett (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Sci-fi: Platform Decay, by Martha Wells (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Romance: How to Fake It In Society, by KJ Charles (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
History: Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory, by Carwyn Jones (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And some other posts…

What I’m reading

First, let’s do the roundup of books I finished this week! I read a lot at the weekend and then a lot less during the week, especially as it wasn’t a great week… but that still added up to a lot of books overall.

I won’t be doing quite such a reading marathon as last weekend (I finished nine books on the Saturday) but I am looking forward to some reading time… I need to free up some shelf space for the spree I will undoubtedly have while down in London for my graduation. Not sure yet what I’ll focus on, but I hope to finish Carol Carnac’s The Double Turn, and maybe some more of the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manhua. I hope my copy of volume 13 ships soon, since it came out earlier this week.

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.