Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted July 4, 2026 by Nicky in General / 1 Comment

Happy weekend! And I’m glad to see it, especially since it’s going to be a pretty busy week ahead. Gotta soak up some relaxation now!

Books acquired this week

A couple of books I was excited about came out this week, but so far I’ve stuck to one — and everyone who knows me is very thankful I managed to get a copy, because when Bookshop.org didn’t have it on the release date and Waterstones turned out to not even be listing it as a book that exists, I was very pouty. Buuut Bookshop.org had copies a day after release, so, whew.

I dived in already… and accidentally flicked ahead and saw a new and confusing character name?! So I’m not sure where this is going, and I might regret not waiting for the last book in October.

I did also get an ARC and a library book, which I allllmost forgot about because I’ve already finished both of them!

And that’s everything… for now.

Posts from this week

Let’s do a bit of a recap: reviews first, as usual!

SF manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 6, by Itaru Kinoshita (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Graphic novel: Navigating with You, by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro & Nikki Foxrobot (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Myth retelling: Daedalus is Dead, by Seamus Sullivan (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Fantasy romance (danmei): Guardian, vol 2, by Priest (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Non-fiction: Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries, by Stephanie Boonstra & Campbell Price (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, most of these are books I read a while ago, since I hold reviews back to make sure I get a good mix of genres, rather than flooding everyone with 250 manga reviews at once. (Not quite literally, but the backlog of graphic novel and manga/manhwa/manhua reviews is longer than any other genre.)

As for the other posts from this week:

And if it tempts you, the June wrap-up has a photo of my bunnies and of my crochet project progress!

What I’m reading

I read a whole bunch of books last weekend, and then slowed down a bit during the week, but it’s definitely been a good week for reading. I got a blackout on the BookSpinBingo challenge from Litsy for the first time in a while, and generally felt really happy and energised about reading, hurrah!

So, a quick peek at the covers of the books I finished and intend to review on the blog…

Considering I haven’t finished a book since Tuesday, that’s quite the collection of titles — I hadn’t quite realised how much I was reading. Here’s hoping this weekend is good for reading too: I know I’m going to read more of Mistakenly Saving the Villain vol 3, and I’d like to finish Charlotte Booth’s Lost Voices of the Nile. Other than that, I’ve got back to Stephanie Burgis’ Wooing the Witch Queen, and have a couple of other non-fiction books on the go that I’ll probably dip in and out of.

I also want to find plenty of time for crochet and gaming, of course, so we’ll see exactly where my whims take me this week! Maybe it’ll be somewhere completely different to what I expect right now, and that’d be fine.

Hope everyone’s had a good week!

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.