Happy weekend! Here’s hoping the forecast spoke true and we’ll be getting some cooler weather here, because the heat is incredible. It is definitely too bloody hot (a song which is stuck in my cranium something fierce).
Books acquired this week
I wasn’t intending to get any books this week, but I definitely wasn’t going to say no when my wife had the opportunity to grab me volume two of The Wife Comes First, and I’d been looking for volume three of Guardian for a long time and panicking about the fact that almost nowhere had it…
I really want to get round to the next volume of The Wife Comes First sooner or later… and honestly I should start on Guardian before long, before I forget all the details of the world! The mythology is pretty complex, after all.
Posts from this week
As ever, there have been a lot of posts this week, so I’ll do a bit of a round-up. First, the reviews!
- Graphic novel: Lady-Bird, by Fabrice Sapolsky and Dawn J. Starr (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
- Fantasy: Solo Leveling (light novel), vol 8, by Chugong (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Sci-fi/fantasy/romance: Clean Sweep, by Ilona Andrews (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Non-fiction: 20th Century Fashion in Detail, by Claire Wilcox and Valerie D. Mendes (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
- Poetry: Parallax, by SinĂ©ad Morrissey (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
- Crime: The Last Escape, by E.C.R. Lorac (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
As ever, those don’t necessarily reflect this week’s reading, since I hold back reviews to try to get a diverse range over time.
Before we get into what I’ve been reading this week, here are the other posts I’ve made this week:
It’s been a lot for such a horribly hot week weather-wise! Unusually for people in the UK, my wife and I have a couple of portable A/C units, which have been lifesavers for us and the rabbits.
What I’m reading
I think last week I’d already fallen into my old habit of swapping between books after reading only a chapter or two, and rotating through that way. I’ve mostly kept that up this week, and I still think it’s working well for the way I’m feeling lately and is maybe a bit more natural to me than focusing on finishing a given book — unless the mood takes me, which it did a couple of times this week.
So without further ado, here are the books I finished reading this week:
I’m honestly impressed I finished everything, given general busyness and the heat — but my reading time was quite high this week, actually! Helped by one late night with a toothache after dental work (which fortunately settled down and was just because it was new, this time) where I couldn’t resist starting a new-to-me E.C.R. Lorac…
Anyway, this weekend I’m reading volume three of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, have returned to Rachel Reid’s Game Changer, am knee-deep in Charlotte Booth’s Lost Voices of the Nile, and have started on Sophia Smith Galer’s How to Kill a Language. I’ll probably stick to those, though I have earmarked some library books that I really need to get round to, so it’s possible I’ll start on one of those.
Hope everyone has a good weekend — and to those in areas where it’s been really astoundingly hot, hope you’re doing alright and that the hot weather has ended or will end soon. Hang in there!
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.
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