Happy weekend! It feels genuinely springlike at last here in the UK — sure, we’ve had our rainy days, but also some lovely sun. Hope everyone’s had a good week!

Books acquired this week

Unsurprisingly, after the spree of my London trip (documented over the last couple Saturdays!), I haven’t been looking to acquire new reading material this week. Still, predictably enough new reading material has found me. First up, two borrows from the National Poetry Library:

I picked up milk and honey because of this week’s Let’s Talk Bookish discussion topic (both my review and my answer to the topic are below in the roundup, if you’re curious!). Ambush at Still Lake was a random choice based on amusement at the pulpy cover; the brief excerpt of poetry I saw suggests I may well not enjoy this volume, but I do like trying random poetry anyway.

I also got a couple of review copies, excitingly — Del Rey sent me a link to get A Trade of Blood on Netgalley, woooo, while I have autoapproval from Tor so simply pounced on The Killing of a Chestnut Tree. I’d seen Tammy talk about it as an upcoming book a few weeks ago, and my interest was piqued, especially given the Holmes pastiche.

Finally… somehow, I’d left a book out of my posts about the London trip! I realised once I was finally getting everything properly shelved. I kinda can’t believe I’d forgotten it, because the title kinda tickles me:

I’m looking forward to digging into that one, too!

Posts from this week

First, as always, let’s round up the reviews I posted this week (though some of them have been written for months):

• Fantasy light novel: Solo Leveling, vol 1, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: The Hedgewitch of Foxhall, by Anna Bright (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Mystery: Murder Offstage, by L.B. Hathaway (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Poetry: milk and honey, by Rupi Kaur (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, by Alice Roberts (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Romance manhwa: Tied to You, vol 4, by WHAT/Chelliace (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And of course, the other posts:

• Fantasy with Friends: High or Low Fantasy
• Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles That Describe Me
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Poetry in the Age of Social Media

What I’m reading

I’m still having trouble settling down to read, finding myself more interested in messing around with casual games (currently doing a lot of hidden object games like A Park Full of Cats), but I did finish a few books this week anyway, so here’s a preview of what will (eventually) be coming up for review on the blog!

For this weekend, I have a few books targeted that I want to finish: Daedalus is Dead (Seamus Sullivan), A Palace Near the Wind (Ai Jiang), The Murder at Gulls Nest (Jess Kidd), and — even though I only just got it! — The Killing of a Chestnut Tree (Oliver K. Langmead).

Other than that, we’ll see. Maybe it’ll be mostly hidden object games. If so, that will be fine!

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.