Greetings from my graduation day! This is very late, but I’ve had a long day. I have successfully added a fourth qualification to my collection (BA Hons, BSc Hons, MA, and now  MSc) — gotta catch ’em all, right? Right…?

What have you recently finished reading?

I snagged a copy of Japanese Dress in Detail from the V&A museum yesterday, and read it that evening! Like the other books in this series I’ve read, it was pretty interesting; maybe my favourite part was reading about firefighters’ dress, which was wadded both for protection and so it could be soaked with water for protection.

Before that, I finished Steve Roud’s Folk Song in England, which was slow and thorough, and an enjoyable survey of both the history of folk song and (necessary to understand it) the history of collecting folk songs.

What are you currently reading?

I just started on Stephanie Boonstra and Campbell Price’s Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries, which I picked up at the Petrie Museum. I haven’t got very far in, though!

I have several other books on the go, including Emma Southon’s Servus, R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis and Nicola Whyte’s Murder Like Clockwork. I’m furthest into the latter, and I’d love to finish it this evening, though it’s a PDF only advance copy so I can only read it on my laptop, which is a bit at odds with my desire to become one with the nearest horizontal surface (the hotel bed) after a long day.

What will you be reading next?

It’s a good bet I’ll start on Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail, another of the books from the V&A soon! Possibly even tonight. That won’t keep me occupied very long, though. I brought a bunch of the books I’m meant to be reading for my BookSpinBingo card with me, so maybe one of those!