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WWW Wednesday

Posted July 22, 2026 by Nicky in General / 2 Comments

What have you recently finished reading?

I got an ARC of Sally Smith’s newest Gabriel Ward novel, A Case of Fear and Favour, and fairly leapt upon it. I didn’t get to dig in much until yesterday because I was finishing other books, but then I sped through it. I do love Gabriel and his fussy ways, and his slow opening up to the world. He is so fundamentally decent, and works so hard when he has a duty, even if he’s also kind of stuffy and privileged and shut away from the world.

Before that, the last thing I finished was Suzanne Palmer’s Ode to the Half-Broken, which I also liked a lot; I thought it maybe could’ve been a liiiiittle bit tighter, because with all the chasing here and there the page count really stretched out. But I enjoyed how hopeful it was, and how the protagonist grows.

What are you currently reading?

You know the drill: a number of books all at once! Most actively, Peter Parsons’ City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, which is about papyri found in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchos. I wish it would focus a little more on the papyri themselves, rather than reporting information we know because of them without explaining exactly where the info came from, but it’s interesting all the same.

Other than that, I’m still working on Jon Cannon’s The Stones of Britain, and I’ve just barely started Fonda Lee’s The Last Contract of Isako.

What will you be reading next?

I just got a bunch of advance/complimentary copies from Hachette, including H.G. Parry’s The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood, which I’ve been super curious about, so chances are high I’ll dig into one of those. I did also get volume three of Lv Ye Qian He’s The Wife Comes First, which finishes the story, so I’ll probably dive straight on that tonight.

Plus… although the fourth volume of the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint novel doesn’t seem to be out in paperback in the UK, it is available on Kobo. I’m not sure if I want to snag the ebook to read it sooner, because there’s something about the physical format that I like — can’t put my finger on it, maybe it’s the font or the way things are laid out… so I guess we’ll see how impatient I get, on that front!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Live In My Head Rent-Free

Posted July 21, 2026 by Nicky in General / 35 Comments

This week’s prompt from Top Ten Tuesday is about books that live in your head rent-free, and I think there aren’t going to be many surprises here from me — many of my favourites are well-known! Let’s see.

The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison.
I’ve reread this book several times and will no doubt reread it many times more: I love it a lot, and there’s so much around the edges of it that the story doesn’t cover. Some of that is covered in the Thara Celehar books, but even then, there’s so much more. I adore the characters, too.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu.
The same is true of The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System and Heaven Official’s Blessing, to be fair — all of MXTX’s characters have really stuck with me, despite and sometimes because of the stories’ flaws. In the case of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, you’ve got Wei Wuxian and his manifest fuck-ups, but also characters like Lan Xichen, Jiang Cheng, Jin Ling, Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui, who have a ways to go to find happy endings out of their pasts, even as the story ends.
Feed, by Mira Grant.
I wasn’t even into horror when I read this, but it stuck with me, and especially so after I studied infectious diseases for my MSc and after the whole world went through a global pandemic (which was comparatively mild compared to what it could have been). Reading it in the wake of that is… yeah. And I’ve no doubt I’ll read the series again in future. It’s also a book that I didn’t like that much when I first read it, but which I came back to again and again.
A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan.
This another of those books that I didn’t love the first time, but I found myself drawn back — and then I loved it the second time. I’m a huge champion for this series and the way it explored a woman being a scholar in a patriarchal society, how she was still an instrument of imperialism at times when she didn’t mean to be, and how it never loses sight at the same time of the wonder of the idea of dragons being real. Also, the way the whole series slowly adds information for us until that final book…!
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie.
This one always makes me think of a particular friend. I didn’t warmly love the book the first time I read it (more admired it), but over time, I’ve got such fond feelings for all the characters. Someone even did a recording of a potential tune for one of Breq’s songs, and every so often that gets stuck in my head.
Chalice, by Robin McKinley.
Another one I didn’t absolutely love at first read! Those often seem to be the ones I really end up adoring, if there’s enough to them to draw me back in to try again — I can think of a couple of other examples, even. The magic in Chalice is weird and difficult to understand at times, because the protagonist doesn’t understand it: she has to struggle to figure things out for herself, and I loved her journey (and the slow building of trust between her and the Master).
The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell.
I think of everything on this list, this is the one I read longest ago. It was definitely a part of shaping my interest in Arthuriana, and it’s amazing how often I think about it, even if I haven’t read it in a long time. It’s a good crack at a historical, human, unmagical Arthur, and at his companions. It gave me a serious distaste for Lancelot which other books have never really shaken, even despite my studies!
Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee.
I can’t believe it’s this book’s 10th anniversary this year. What?! And I still haven’t got round to rereading it. I went into it concerned that I wouldn’t understand, but the math is basically just magic, and you can just accept that and let the weirdness sweep you along. When I couldn’t think of a name for my chocobo in FFXIV, I actually named it Jedao, which might be one of the weirdest “I named my pet after your character” situations I’ve heard of.
Lifelode, by Jo Walton.
I could’ve picked Farthing or Among Others as well, or even My Real Children… but Among Others was very much a book that spoke to me a lot in my late teens/early twenties, while Lifelode is something I think about more now. I wish more people had read it, so that I could say “my lifelode is learning”, and have people understand what that means. It’s an excellent fantasy, if not a very traditional one.
The Hands of the Emperor, by Victoria Goddard.
There are ways in which this is very like The Goblin Emperor, which is part of what originally drew me to this book. It’s a very different world with a very different inspiration, though, and the main protagonist is a common man (albeit one who has been elevated very high). I really want to get round to rereading it, and reading the sequel, which I was desperate for after I finished it! It’s just been too long now for me to go into it cold.

So… there we go, my fairly predictable list, ahaha.

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Fantasy with Friends: Tropes in Children’s Fantasy

Posted July 20, 2026 by Nicky in General / 4 Comments

Happy Monday! Time for Fantasy with Friends: all the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about tropes in children’s fantasy:

Is there a common trope or concept you see in children’s fantasy stories that you think would be fun to see more of in adult fantasy?

I don’t actually read children’s fantasy or YA these days — at least not very often, except maaaaaybe a bit in graphic novel form — so I’m a little bit stumped here. If I think back to the tropes and concepts I loved in fantasy when I was a kid, I think a lot of it is being done in adult fantasy: I think fondly about stuff like The Worst Witch in the School, but then we have Emily Tesh playing around with a magic school in The Incandescent, and Caitlin Rozakis doing younger kids in a magic school in The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, for instance. Maybe I’d love a bit less dark academia and more “holy crap I’m attending a magical school/university”?

As for portal fantasy, that’s always been around, I think, and e.g. Seanan McGuire’s playing around with it a lot in Every Heart a Doorway et al, and again in Over the Woodward Wall etc. Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar books are a bit dated now, but lovely; more stuff that takes portal fantasy seriously and isn’t trying to be meta with it might be nice.

I suppose Brian Jacques’ Redwall books also count as fantasy and I loved them, but the plots weren’t super unique, only the fact that they were all animals. So I guess I don’t see a lot of that and I’d kinda like to: there is stuff like The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper and, though this is mystery rather than fantasy in every other sense, Juneau Black’s Shady Hollow books. So maybe we can see a bit more of that?

Kinda curious what other people will answer for this question, and what I’ve failed to think of!

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted July 18, 2026 by Nicky in General / 30 Comments

Happy weekend! And here it’s overcast (at least for now) and cooler than it’s been in days. I planned a long weekend at somewhat the last minute, to give me chance to do a few tasks around the house and build my new bike storage, so the cooler weather works out well!

Anyway, to the books…

Books acquired this week

There are actually three ARCs in the mail to me, but they haven’t arrived yet, so I can only talk about this one. I got the email offering me this ‘read now’ on Netgalley and have rarely pushed a button so hard in my life; I love this series!

I’m very much looking forward to digging into this one. I had no idea I’d become as fond of Gabriel Ward as I have; in the first book, his introduction makes him seem stuffy and pedantic… but he’s also kind, and cares about justice, and I quickly came to love the character.

Posts from this week

It’s been a busy week on the blog, especially for non-review posts, so the usual round-up sounds like an excellent plan! Reviews first, as per usual:

Non-fiction: The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, by Marilyn Johnson (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Comic: Radiant Black, vol 1, by Kyle Higgins et al (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Non-fiction graphic novel: Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians, by Salomé Parent-Rachdi and Deloupy (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Fantasy: Strange Animals, by Jarod K. Anderson (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Historical fiction verse novel: The Home Child, by Liz Berry (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, these reviews are often for books I finished weeks or even months ago; I have all my reviews written, but hold them back to keep things a bit more varied! The books I’ve read this week will be in the section below.

Aaand the other posts:

As I said, a pretty busy week, what with the 20 Books of Summer update and joining the Book Blogger Hop for the first time.

What I’m reading

I had some weird headachy/migraine stuff going on this week, so I didn’t read nearly as much as I’d have liked, but I did finish a handful of books! As usual, here’s the sneak peek of the ones I intend to review on the blog:

For this weekend, I want to start on some more of the new books purchased/received this year that are hanging around. I only let myself have 20 unstarted books bought this year at once, and the number’s been hovering at or around 20 for a while. I need some breathing room for my birthday!

That said, as I mentioned in the Book Blogger Hop post, I have a few too many books on the go at once, so I’d also like to work on those. Hopefully I can keep a balance! I suspect I’ll start A Case of Fear and Favour, and work on finishing volume two of The Wife Comes First, Carter Dickson’s The Magic-Lantern Murders, and Suzanne Palmer’s Ode to the Half-Broken. For a change of pace, I might also start Greer Stothers’ Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die…

But we’ll see. As always, it’ll be wherever my whim takes me, and that might mean somewhere else entirely. I’m reading to have fun, not to check things off a list!

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.

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Book Blogger Hop: Do You Read Many Books At Once?

Posted July 17, 2026 by Nicky in General / 14 Comments

I’m going to start joining in with the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like!

This week’s prompt is about dual-wielding books:

Do you read one book at a time, or juggle a few at once?

I am quite possibly incapable of reading just one book at once! I have a tendency to get fidgety, though this happens mostly with fiction: I get too antsy about how the story is going to turn out, and then instead of finding out, I get hung up on it. Sometimes the best thing to do in that case is just to switch to something else for a bit. I’d say three to five books at once is the sweet spot for me; each of them gets attention, but there’s plenty of variety.

Overall, I think it works best when I jump between quite different books — like, one historical non-fiction, one popular science, one fantasy, and one mystery, or something like that. Then the moods are very different, and there’s no risk of details blurring into each other.

That said, at the moment I’ve got myself into a bit of a hole with it! I have six books marked as “currently reading” on StoryGraph, which is okay… and thirty-two marked as “paused” because I got stalled on them. I’m working on it; I’ve got a bit of a system at the moment where I alternate starting new books and inducting paused books back into the pile — but it has got a bit overwhelming!

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WWW Wednesday

Posted July 15, 2026 by Nicky in General / 12 Comments

What have you recently finished reading?

I finished up Daryl Gregory’s The Album of Dr Moreau almost in one go, which surprised me — it’s a novella, so I figured it’d be a quick read, but I wasn’t much in the mood for reading, so I wasn’t expecting it to grab me so well. It takes the premise fairly seriously, while also being somewhat playful — inevitable when you’re writing about a boy band made up of human-animal hybrids. I enjoyed the concept, though, and the mystery! I don’t think I’ve read anything by Daryl Gregory before, and now I’m definitely curious (though if I remember rightly none of his books immediately spoke to me, maybe I’m more tempted now).

What are you currently reading?

Let’s stick to the ones I have in my ‘active’ pile, though I have a lot of other books in various states of suspended animation. In no particular order, we have Suzanne Palmer’s Ode to the Half Broken, which I am enjoying quite a lot. Inevitably there’s something a bit reminiscent of Murderbot at first in a first-person narrative about a synthetic intelligence (albeit completely non-human) navigating the world, and you can imagine Murderbot being similarly cranky about losing a leg… but it’s definitely its own thing, too, and I am really enjoying this one. It’s one of the few books lately that I feel the itch to pick up, rather than nudging myself to pick it up: I enjoy books I read in the latter way, but it’s fun and special when it’s the former.

Next, I started on Carter Dickson’s The Magic-Lantern Murders; some of John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson’s work is decidedly not for me, and this is verging into that category. I feel like ‘Yakety Sax’ ought to be the soundtrack, is the problem: coincidences and near-slapstick scenes of chaos just… don’t work for me.

There’s also Jon Cannon’s The Stones of Britain, which I am enjoying inasfar as Cannon is having a ball thinking about geology and how that has shaped human settlements. It is not my interest, but he’s fascinated, and so it’s enjoyable.

Finally, volume two of Lv Ye Qian He’s The Wife Comes First, which I’m enjoying so far — albeit that Jing Shao really does deserve to sleep on the couch sometimes, and Mu Hanzhang shouldn’t let him get away with trying to be a big cute puppy of a man to get out of it. (Though it’s very cute.)

What will you be reading next?

I’m not sure what long-form stuff I’ll read next, but I’m definitely planning to read Sian Northey and Ness Owen’s bilingual poetry anthology Afonydd, not least because I’ve spent several days talking to StoryGraph’s support team to try to convince them to understand that searching the word “afonydd” should pull up a book called Afonydd, not 25 other items which contain only 3-4 of those characters in different orders, such as Rick Remender’s Deadly Class Volume 11: A Fond Farewell Part One or Deanne Dietz’s Hearts Held By Barbed Wire, which matches the search because it is #1 in her “Afton Adders” series.

(If you were wondering, they said thanks for the feedback and told me to add Welsh — a language I don’t speak, because English imperialism — to my profile in order to find the book. That doesn’t work, not least because the edition is listed as being in English, but also because, as stated, I don’t speak Welsh.)

I’m also interested because it’s bilingual: poems written in Welsh have been provided with an English translation, and those written in English with a Welsh translation. It seems like a lovely project, and I feel compelled to note that the book seems to be available on Kobo Plus, and you can find it on StoryGraph if you add Sian Northey’s name to your search. Wouldn’t it be lovely if more people a) read such a lovely and thoughtful project, and b) rated/reviewed it on StoryGraph to maybe convince them to care about their broken search?

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Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors To Try

Posted July 14, 2026 by Nicky in General / 18 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is “Books I Want to Read by New to Me Authors”, which I can surely do easily… Because I’m feeling a bit not-100% (like I might develop a migraine or something maybe), I’m going to stick to just showing the covers this time rather than do my usual ramble — after all, I don’t have much to say about books I haven’t read yet!

I’m not actually sure if the mentioned authors have written other books, but presumably one day they might write others… and these will (probably) be the first books of theirs I get to!

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Fantasy with Friends: Brandon Sanderson

Posted July 13, 2026 by Nicky in General / 10 Comments

Monday again, so it’s time for Fantasy with Friends! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about the work of Brandon Sanderson:

Are you a Brandon Sanderson fan? Some readers online have called his books the “fast food of fantasy?” Do you think that’s a valid criticism?

I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Brandon Sanderson; I’ve only read a couple of his books, and broadly speaking I enjoyed them, but he’s not a must-read author for me and I haven’t even touched his most popular series. I did recently read The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, and didn’t like it much at all — Sanderson’s idea of humour doesn’t match well with mine, for sure.

I don’t know what I think of the epithet “the fast food of fantasy”, though. I remember finding the worldbuilding of Warbreaker really interesting, and was pretty interested in Elantris (though I stalled out on actually reading it for mood reasons and never came back to it)… it does seem to me like Sanderson is perfectly capable of coming up with his own ideas, even if his prose isn’t on the level of, say, Ursula Le Guin. I’d be more inclined to call the stuff churned out by the likes of David Eddings the fast food of fantasy, given that a couple of his series were essentially copy/pastes of one another.

(Obligatory note that I definitely don’t endorse Eddings’ work, given his conviction as a child abuser.)

Even so, I don’t like the term or any other (like “pap” or “trash” or “guilty pleasures”) that put value judgements on books other people enjoy and connect with, even though sometimes I think the substance and beauty comes from the reader of certain works, not the writer. I think valid criticisms of Sanderson’s work include the heavy influence of his Mormonism on his work, or critiques of how long and unnecessarily sprawling some of his works can be, or of his fairly plain writing — none of which necessarily preclude enjoyment — but calling it the “fast food of fantasy” seems like a way of dodging doing difficult work to actually write a decent critique.

That said, as a flippant one-off remark by a blogger or something, it just comes across as an unserious critique of a disliked book/series/author, which is fair enough.

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20 Books of Summer: Progress Update #1

Posted July 12, 2026 by Nicky in General / 10 Comments

It’s been almost a month since I set up my list and got started, so let’s have a bit of a check-in! To recap, I set myself twenty specific books I’d like to read across four categories, and also added a section of potential books to swap in if I got fidgety about any. So far, I haven’t activated any of my swaps (though I’m tempted to pick them up in their own right and make it twenty-five books of summer) and I’ve been making some good progress!

You can see the full line-up in my intro post, but now let’s talk about what I’ve actually finished!

Five non-fic: 4/5

I could probably have predicted I’d do well with this section, and it’s far and away my most successful, with four books finished since I signed up. Here they are!

That just leaves John and Colleen Darnell’s Egypt’s Golden Couple, which I have already started.

Five in-progress: 3/5

I was a bit less sure about this section, since it represents books I’d started and got stalled on for one reason or another… but actually, I’ve been doing okay here! I’ve finished three of the books so far.

By definition for this category I’m already partway through Gareth Russell’s Queen James and S.L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws, but haven’t touched them since before setting up my list. Hopefully I’ll get to them soon!

Five ARCs: 0/5

Nothing to report here, I’m afraid! I did make a start on Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Trade of Blood, and I did get a few pages into Ann Leckie’s Radiant Star as well, but so far the stars haven’t aligned.

Five danmei: 2/5

I got off to a good start with these, devouring my first two picks:

Now I’m somewhat tempted to wait for the third volume of The Wife Comes First to come out (in a couple weeks) to finish off that series before I start any new danmei series. Given they’re generally quick reads, there should be plenty of time after that to read the rest of my list, and avoid having too many series on the go at once… but I don’t know, I’ve been tempted by Thrice Married to a Salted Fish for a while, and I technically made a start on volume one of Peerless a while ago, so we’ll see.

Five wildcards: 0/5

Nothing here, but I am tempted to finish up Servus, which I’m already partway through… that would work as a wildcard for either the non-fic category (though it hardly needs it), the in-progress category or the ARCs category, should I need an out later on.

So overall, that’s 9/20 books — not bad for a month’s progress! I’ve been reading other books as well, as usual, so there’s been plenty of reading happening.

To close, here’s a bonus picture of Eclair’s reaction when I said in a voice call earlier in the week that the heatwave was starting again…

Somehow, I don’t think he was keen. Luckily I can report that the room the bunnies hang out in stayed pretty cool this week and they came through juuust fine!

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted July 11, 2026 by Nicky in General / 36 Comments

Oof, it’s way too hot here once again! And humid, at least here in my office, despite having had the portable air conditioner on dehumidifier mode for most of the last 24 hours. Still, I’m surviving and very lucky to have the air conditioner option!

Books acquired this week

Last week I forgot to feature a library book, so sneaking that into this week’s post: Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is one I’ve been meaning to try for a while, though I thiiiink I have read a different mystery by the same author and didn’t love it? That said, I wasn’t reading a lot of mysteries in translation at that time, and I think I have my eye in a bit better now, so I’m hoping I’ll enjoy it more. Reading in translation can sometimes be easier like that, when you have a degree of context.

Meanwhile, over at the National Poetry Library they set up a collection of Welsh collections; you can only take out two at a time, and I still had one other collection I haven’t got round to, but I’m looking forward to more of those. For now, I’ve just grabbed Sian Northey and Ness Owen’s Afonydd anthology, which is bilingual and sounds like a fascinating project.

I also got exciting new books to review:

A new Becky Chambers book is always something I eagerly anticipate, so looking forward to digging into this one, and I’ve been meaning since forever to pick up the books by the M.A. Carrick duo, since one of them is Marie Brennan!

Finally, this month’s British Library Crime Classic dropped onto my doormat yesterday:

I’ve grown to appreciate John Dickson Carr’s books quite a bit, though I didn’t love the previous book that’s linked to this one (The Unicorn Murders), so I’m curious what I’ll think of this one.

Posts from this week

Let’s get things rounded up, reviews first, as usual:

Poetry: Night Sky with Exit Wounds, by Ocean Vuong (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Romance manga: Welcome Back, Aureole, by Takatsu (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Sci-fi manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 7, by Itaru Kinoshita (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Sci-fi novella: We Burned So Bright, by TJ Klune (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
Romance: Game Changer, by Rachel Reid (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Classic mystery: Sweet Poison, by Mary Fitt (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

And the other posts:

What I’m reading

After a pretty frenzied weekend of reading the week before last, I’ve been positively sedate this week. It’s partly because I’ve been reading a longer book (Jon Cannon’s The Stones of Britain) which just isn’t something you can sit and chug down in one go, and partly because I’ve had other things on my mind.

That said, I did finish a few books, some of which had been lingering on my ‘currently reading’ pile for ages!

My weekend plans involve some crochet, a fair amount of gaming, including trying to get to grips with the puzzle game Gorogoa… and also cogitating on the ‘couch to 5k for reading’ idea that Naomi Alderman posted on Substack (not linking it; please don’t use Substack) and how I’d adapt it to become a bit less, well, elitist-sounding. Buuut I expect to post a 20 Books of Summer update tomorrow, and spend some time reading more of The Stones of Britain, finishing up Helen Pilcher’s pop-science book Life Changing, and probably reading The Magic-Lantern Murders.

I might also start on rereading Jordan L. Hawk’s Widdershins books (so I can finally get back to the new-to-me books and finish the series) or volume two of The Wife Comes First, just to make sure I read and thoroughly enjoy books that… certain commentators… undoubtedly think are, what was her word? “Pap”. (Yeah, you can tell this one’s annoying me. There’s probably a whole blog post on this brewing, if not my very own ‘couch to 5k for reading’ plan.)

Either way, there’s a high likelihood I’ll start something new, because even with so many books already in my on-deck pile, I like to slip in something fresh here and there. We’ll see, though!

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.

Tags: books, Stacking the Shelves, weekly roundup