Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted June 6, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Happy weekend! I’ve had a fairly quiet week without feeling in the mood for much, but I got out of the house yesterday for a little adventure (viewing the UK AIDs Memorial Quilt, which is on display this weekend not too far away) and feel a bit perkier today, so let’s hope for some good weekend reading.

Books acquired this week

Nothing new in the mail for me, but I did pick up some library books! These were more or less random choices just based on whatever I spotted in a very quick trawl through while waiting…

And a hold came in from the National Poetry Library:

It’s possible I put it on hold just for the hippos on the cover!

Posts from this week

Starting with the reviews:

Mystery comic: The Great British Bump-Off, by John Allison et al (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 3, by Itaru Kinoshita (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Fantasy mystery: The Killing of a Chestnut Tree, by Oliver K. Langmead (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Fantasy: Solo Leveling, vol 6, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Classic mystery: The Unicorn Murders, by Carter Dickson (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As usual, most of them aren’t books I’ve finished super recently, since I hold back reviews to keep a mix of genres going. The books I’ve read this week are in the next section though!

What I’m reading

It was a bit of a slow week as far as reading goes, though I did some organising of my currently-reading pile and got realistic, so the terrifying stack is a bit better managed now, and I kinda hope that will perk me up. I did finish a few books, and they weren’t short ones either, so it wasn’t a bad week, all the same!

This weekend I’m hoping to return to Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters, which I’ve been neglecting, and maybe start on volume two of Feng Yu Nie’s Mistakenly Saving the Villain… but I’m not super set on anything, and mostly planning to follow my whim. Not doing that is what gets me feeling overwhelmed and unhappy with my reading, after all.

I haven’t made much progress on my crochet since last week, but I’m hoping to get some work in on that, too.

Happy reading, 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.