Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted November 7, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Haaaaappy weekend! It’s been a busy week, though it always seems to be a busy week around here!

Books acquired this week

Wooo, another pre-order came in! I thought Mistakenly Saving the Villain was supposed to be released in October, but I guess either it got changed or the date I saw before was an error. I’ve been eagerly waiting for it, either way! I’d actually preordered it back in August, knowing I’d want it ASAP on release.

I did also snag a handful of novellas that looked tempting in honour of Novellas in November. I deliberately went for a bit of a spread of genres, since it seems like a good opportunity to dip my toe into different authors and try things.

Excited to read all of these! I’ve already made a start.

Posts from this week

As usual, here’s a round-up of the reviews first! Don’t forget that these are from the last few months, and don’t represent what I read this week. I have sooo many reviews backlogged and ready to post, but I try not to flood the blog — and to post some variety. My descriptions of my ratings are literal, too: if I rated something 3/5 stars, I promise I really did like it!

Poetry: Off the Shelf, ed. Carol Ann Duffy (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Fantasy manhwa: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, vol 4, by Umi and Sleepy-C (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Sci-fi horror: There Is No Antimimetics Division, by qntm (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Fantasy: The Green Man’s Heir, by Juliet E. McKenna (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Mystery: Let Him Lie, by Ianthe Jerrold (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Non-fiction: Embers of the Hands, by Emma Barraclough (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Poetry: A460: Poems for the Road, by Ness Owen and Sian Northey (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

Of course, there have been a bunch of non-review posts:

Man, it’s good to be able to schedule posts again! This was my most organised week in a while, even given I’ve been drafting and formatting posts in advance again for a few months.

What I’m reading

As usual, let’s start with a sneak peek at what I’ve been reading! Last Saturday the Haunted Shelf readathon ended, so I got enthusiastic… as ever, don’t take any book’s inclusion here as a recommendation, though! It’s just a log of what I’ve read — reviews come later.

Here are the books I’ll be reviewing some time soon:

My plan for the weekend involves reading a lot of novellas, unsurprisingly! But I also hope to sort through some books and start some more of my longer reads as well, focusing on sci-fi and non-fiction (in aid of the other reading challenges I’ve joined in with this month)… though I’m also likely to tackle Mistakenly Saving the Villain vol 4, and/or start my reread of After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine.

Once the fourth volume of the latter hits, that’ll be my first priority this week! I hope it’ll get dispatched on Tuesday and arrive on Wednesday. 🤞

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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.