It’s the weekend again, wooo!

Books acquired this week

First up, let’s have the library books! It’s been a few weeks since I checked out any poetry, but I found myself turning to it this week, hoping for more of Mary Oliver’s work and thus inclined to click on other stuff that looked interesting.

I also got a new book that genuinely arrived this week — this month’s British Library Crime Classic. The author wrote the Sergeant Beef short stories, if I understand rightly, so I’m not sure if I’ll like this one; it’s not about Sergeant Beef, but still, I don’t think I enjoyed the style. Still, novels and short stories can be quite different, as can different characters by the same author! So we’ll see.

We’ll see, anyway! And now it’s time to get back to the books I got in London. We’re now onto the Forbidden Planet section of the “report”! First up, the SF/F. I’d heard of a couple of these from other bloggers, or seen them around for ages (like Wooing the Witch Queen), but a couple were more random choices, like The Palace Near the Wind.

I definitely tried to let myself just browse pretty freely and go with whatever jumped out, without looking it up too much or hesitating. Sometimes the unexpected will jump out at you that way… but honestly the selection at Forbidden Planet was pretty overwhelming and I mostly found myself gravitating to titles I recognised from somewhere, ahaha.

And now onto the danmei, the very last section to explore. Most of the danmei is technically also SF/F, but they also fit together well:

 

The sharp-eyed and strong of memory will remember that I’ve been hankering after The Wife Comes First and After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine for a while, so I’m curious to get stuck into them.

If you’re curious about the indie bookshops I visited, the books I got there are in part one of my London trip STS report, while part two has the non-fiction books I found at Waterstones Piccadilly (the biggest bookshop in Europe). I definitely had myself a good time for my graduation treat, ahaha, but how often does one get a master’s degree?

(Well, for me it’s happened twice, admittedly. Shush and don’t ruin my excuse.)

Posts from this week

First up, the reviews:

• Fantasy: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (light novel), vol 2, by singNsong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: Breath of the Dragon, by Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• History/poetry: Part of a Story that Started Before Me, ed. George the Poet (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Mystery: Murder Like Clockwork, by Nicola Whyte (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Science: The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs, by Riley Black (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy/romance manhwa: Tied to You, vol 3, by WHAT & Chelliace (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And quite a few other posts!

• Fantasy with Friends: Definitions of Fantasy
• Top Ten Tuesday: Recent Five-Star Reads
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Casting in Adaptations

It’s been nice to get out and about doing more discussion posts, lately!

What I’m reading

This week still involved less reading than I would’ve liked, since I didn’t settle down to it very well… but I did still have some fun reads. Let’s have a peek at what this week and what might be coming up for review on my blog (sooner or later, depending on the genre — Murder Like Clockwork’s review is already up because I haven’t read a lot of crime fiction lately!):

A very small number read for me, but oh well. Maybe this weekend? Or maybe not! Whatever’s fine, really — I don’t want to force myself.

As for this weekend, I’m not sure what I’ll read exactly, but I’d like to get further into Finn Longman’s The Wolf and His King, and I also started reading Jess Kidd’s The Murder at Gulls Nest since it’s due back at the library. Ditto There is No Antimimetics Division. So maybe those!

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.