Oof, another long week, but here we are on the other side!

Books acquired this week

This week I’ve been blessed with a couple of review copies from Hachette/Orbit, one of them being extremely exciting to me: the new Ann Leckie!

I’m hoping to dig into both pretty soon; I’ve been meaning to read more of Fonda Lee’s work as well, though I think Radiant Star is likely to jump the queue straight onto my currently-reading pile, ahaha.

I also “had to” grab a book to fill out an order for express delivery (oh no), so I picked up a highly anticipated non-fiction:

I’m excited to dig into this as well: I’ve always been fascinated with Pompeii, and (to the complaints of my traveling companion) thoroughly explored every area tourists had access to when I visited.

Finally, I’ve been trying to keep up my explorations of poetry, despite the sad news about Carol Rumens (editor of the Guardian‘s poetry column, which I’d been using to give me ideas). So here’s a couple of books I borrowed from the National Poetry Library:

Posts from this week:

I’ve kept up with posts pretty well, so there’s plenty to highlight. Starting with the reviews:

• Fantasy novella: Fate’s Bane, by C.L. Clark (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy light novel: Solo Leveling, vol 3, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings, by Toby Wilkinson (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Poetry: Felicity, by Mary Oliver (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Non-fiction: How Flowers Made Our World, by David George Haskell (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, these aren’t a reflection of my reading week — often the reviews I post are of books I finished a couple of months ago, depending on the genre. See below for this week’s reads!

First, though, there have been some non-review posts, though Let’s Talk Bookish is currently on hiatus. Here’s the roundup:

• Fantasy with Friends: Further Reading
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Picked Up On A Whim
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading:

I’m still not up to my normal reading speed, but I added a little daily habit for this month that I’m hoping will at least keep things moving: every day, I read at least 15 minutes of whichever book I’m closest to finishing. That has been pretty effective so far, whittling down my currently-reading pile from 30 to 26 since the start of the month. That said, I think I’m going to undo all that work this weekend by starting new books, ahaha.

In any case, here are the books I’ve finished this week!

It’s been a pretty good week for reading! I’m not sure what I’ll focus on this weekend, honestly. I think the book I’m next-closest to finishing is Ai Jiang’s A Palace Near the Wind, so probably I’ll spend some time with that, and I probably want to start Radiant Star and The Lost Voices of Pompeii.

I’ve had a busy and weird couple weeks, though, so I’ll probably mostly follow whatever urge hits me: I’m keen to read more of Kate Strasdin’s Dressing the Queen, for instance.

Hope everyone’s been having a good week, and I wish you all a nice weekend!

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.