Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted November 14, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Hurrah for the weekend! A long weekend for me; the Christmas season will be busy for at least one of my clients, so I’m taking a long weekend this week and next in order to rest up. Time for more reading!

Books acquired this week

I actually bought two more books this week… for work purposes, I swear! I do book reviews for Postcrossing’s blog sometimes, and I wanted to review an epistolary novel this time… and found these two novella-length books that were super tempting. So they’ll get reviewed both here and over on Postcrossing, eventually.

I’ve read both already, so at least they aren’t wreaking havoc on my TBR. I did also get my British Library Crime Classic for this month — somehow it always comes as a surprise, but a nice one.

I might tuck into that this weekend… we’ll see!

Posts from this week

As usual, there’s been a lot going on, so let’s settle in for a round-up. Reviews first:

Fantasy graphic novel: A Wizard of Earthsea, by Fred Fordham (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Historical fantasy romance: After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine, vol 3, by Liu Gou Hua (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
Short horror stories: Bad Dolls, by Rachel Harrison (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Short mystery stories: Eat, Drink and Be Murdered, by Martin Edwards (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Non-fiction: Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in Twelve Illuminated Manuscripts, by Michelle P. Brown (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Poetry: A Hundred Doors, by Michael Longley (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Fantasy manhwa: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, vol 5, by Umi, Sleepy-C et al (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

As ever, those reviews are from a range of time periods, since I try to keep some variety on the blog for you all! And 3/5 stars really does mean I liked the book.

Here are the discussion posts etc from this week:

Oof, that was a lot!

What I’m reading

Now it’s time to check in what I’ve been reading this week and plan to review on the blog! As always because I also review books I dislike, inclusion in this section does not mean endorsement.

For this weekend, a few more novellas wouldn’t go amiss, but I do want to focus on reads for some of my November reading challenges as well. I just started on the British Library Crime Classics collection Miraculous Mysteries, which is themed on impossible crimes and locked door mysteries, so I’ll probably read more of that… and I’ve got started with Patricia Fara’s A Lab of One’s Own; a little slow going, but I hope it’s going to pick up.

Otherwise… okay, I have a wider list to go from, but it’ll be largely my whim what I actually pick up. Maybe more of Patricia Fara’s A Lab of One’s Own, Ann Leckie’s Radiant Star, or Becky Chambers’ As You Wake, Break the Shell? Or finally start my reread of After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine, even as I pine for the final volume to actually get shipped to me? It was out this week, and yet Bookshop.org have let me know the publisher has not actually released any copies to the distributor, so it might be a while yet.

In the rest of the week, I’m not sure, but I might get back to Sylvie Cathrall’s The Art of Charming a Changeling.

Whatever you’re reading, hope you have a good 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.