Woo, weekend! I look forward to a day of hidden object games and reading. Hope everyone’s had a good week!

Books acquired this week

I haven’t really been meaning to acquire anything this week, but somehow library books have been happening to me… First up, from the National Poetry Library:

And from my local, a book I’d rather randomly reserved based on someone’s review. I’ve forgotten who! If it might’ve been you, speak up, ahaha:

And finally, I decided after a fair bit of dithering to request TJ Klune’s new novella:

I’d been hesitating, but it’s a novella — it shouldn’t take me that long to read, after all! And I have enjoyed Klune’s work in the past, I just didn’t want to accept more to review without being pretty certain I’d actually get to it anytime soon, ahaha.

Posts from this week

As ever, time for a quick roundup of what I’ve been posting, starting with the reviews:

• Fantasy romance: The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, by Brigitte Knightley (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Horror: Snake-eater, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Classic mystery: Jack on the Gallows Tree, by Leo Bruce (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: Blue Horses, by Mary Oliver (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• History: The Library of Ancient Wisdom, by Selena Wisnom (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Horror graphic novel: Home Sick Pilots, vol 2, by Dan Watters et al (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy: Solo Leveling (light novel), vol 2, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And the other posts:

• Fantasy With Friends: Favourite Subgenres
• Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Climate Fiction

What I’m reading

It’s still been a quiet sort of week for me when it comes to reading — I’m hoping to bust out of my funk somewhat this weekend! It looks like more reading than it is, because the poetry and the manga were pretty short. All the same, I did finish a few books, especially last weekend:

I’m planning a bit of a catch-up this week, focusing on a few books I’m actually meant to be trading in soon (oops), including Queer Georgians (Anthony Delaney), How Flowers Made the World (David George Haskell) and The Meteorite Hunters (Joseph Howgego). It seemed a lot more reasonable I’d have them read in time at the start of the month when I set up the trade-in, ahaha. I also want to work on finishing my Book Spin and Double Spin books for the Litsy challenge, so that’s Queen James (Gareth Russell) and The Water Outlaws (S.L. Huang).

I don’t expect to finish them all this weekend by any means, but I’d like to get a chunk into them. I may also go for some lighter reading and tackle that TJ Klune novella, though.

Does anyone else have grand reading plans for the weekend? Good luck, folks!

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.