Happy Saturday from surprisingly sunny Yorkshire! At least, it was a surprise to me, after all the grey and rainy days. I’m not looking forward to the high temperature forecast for Monday, but this morning I’m sat by the window with a fresh breeze, so things feel pretty good.

Books acquired this week

A quiet week on this front, but I did just borrow a couple more books from the National Poetry Library for the weekend! So here they are: first the translated poetry I read earlier in the week, and the two I just picked up for weekend reading.

I wasn’t initially drawn to The Home Child, and then I spotted it was a verse novel. Given that I did enjoy The Black Flamingo, I thought I’d give a totally different verse novel a chance too and see what I think. Not sure if the National Poetry Library has any others I might be interested in, but I’ll take a look next time I have a loan slot free.

Posts from this week

Let’s start with the reviews as usual:

• Graphic novel: My Heart in Braille, by Joris Chamblain, Pascal Ruter & Anne-Lise Nalin (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 1, by Itaru Kinoshita (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: The Keeper of Magical Things, by Julie Leong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: Solo Leveling light novel, vol 5, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• History: Folk Song in England, by Steve Roud (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• YA: The Black Flamingo, by Dean Atta (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, those aren’t the books I’ve been reading this week, for the most part. Those are below in the next section!

Aaand the other posts:

• Fantasy with Friends: Fairytale Retellings
• Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Secondary/Minor Characters
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

It wasn’t a great week for reading, via a combination of getting a bit blocked by a book I wasn’t settling down with but was stubborn to finish plus my new crochet project. The former I’m finally just 50 pages or so from finishing (and things are coming together better than I’d feared), and the latter… well, it’s still going to steal a lot of my time, but I understand the technique and how to read/interpret the pattern now, so each row goes a little faster and smoother than at the start.

Anyway, here’s what I did manage to read since my last post!

Which looks like quite a bit, but they were all fairly short reads, especially The Brothers, which is a kid’s book — I’d got curious about it because it’s a retelling of a Hmong myth, and references to the Hmong have come up in various bits of reading lately.

For this weekend, I hope to finish Cecilia Edward’s An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating and Tom Service’s A History of the World in 50 Pieces. I’d love to fit in reading some comics and poetry around that as well, but (as ever) it’s down to my whim. There’s also a possibility I’ll just snag something random from the books I’m currently reading, curl up and go to town on finishing it. I’d love for that to happen, because I am starting to feel a biiiit overwhelmed by the number of books I have on the go, heh.

But of course there’ll be plenty of casual video games and crochet, too. Or so I hope!

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.