Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted May 30, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Good morning! It’s been a hot and sunny week in the UK, but the week ahead is set to be a bit cooler (whew). Hope everyone’s doing okay!

Books acquired this week

First, I’d forgotten to include this month’s British Library Crime Classic in one of these posts yet, so I’m adding that in this week… and volume two of Mistakenly Saving the Villain, which I just haaad to get after I finished volume one:

Definitely different genres, ahaha.

I’ve also borrowed more poetry as usual, this time focusing on poetry in translation, though I wish the Poetry Library had better tags for this:

I have a couple of others on hold which I’m hoping will come in soon, so I might not borrow more this week just to keep the decks clear, since you can only borrow two at a time, and I still have The Home Child, which I borrowed last week. (I finished and returned Impossible Paradise to get Love Sonnets & Elegies!)

Posts from this week

As always, let’s do a bit of a roundup, because a week is a long time. Starting with the reviews:

Graphic novel: A Boy Named Rose, by Gaëlle Geniller (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 2, by Itaru Kinoshita (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Fantasy mystery romance: Guardian, vol 1, by Priest (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Fantasy: The Fourth Island, by Sarah Tolmie (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Poetry: An Interesting Detail, by Kimberly Campanello (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
Children’s book: The Brothers, by Sheelue Yang and Le Nhat Yu (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Non-fiction: Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, by Emma Laws et al (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

As ever, they aren’t all recent reads, since I spread out the genres I post about!

Aaand the non-review posts:

And that’s that for the week!

What I’m reading

I’m still struggling a bit, but honestly that’s not too unusual for me at this time of year. I used to attribute it to final assignments and exams, but I’m not studying this year… and here we are, all the same. Oh well! I did manage some reading this week, and that’s all that matters — it looks like a lot of reading, actually, but several of them are very short. Here’s a peek at the ones I finished and intend to review on the blog:

As for this weekend, I’m heading out for a bit on Saturday, but I expect to spend most of the weekend at home… maybe fitting in some reading time? And crochet time!

On which front, here’s a little sneak peek to end on since people have been curious. This is just two panels out of five, to avoid having to take a really big picture; each row works across all five panels, so it’s slow going at times. I hope to finish the first “shelf” of five panels this weekend!

That’s the leftmost panel and the rightmost panel, with the rest folded under. You can actually also see a glimpse of how the reverse side looks: just kinda stripey. It’s magic… or mosaic overlay crochet, anyway. Same difference, right?

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.