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September Reading Wrap-Up

Posted October 1, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

A photo of brown crunchy fallen leaves

September saw the temperatures here finally cooling down, and the world going a bit greener again… just in time for autumn to hit as the leaves start browning. I do enjoy autumn, though!

September in general:

It was a busy month for work once more, but hopefully that’s drawing to a close now… but other than that, it’s been a pretty quiet month with a lot of mood reading. Some energy has been spent on getting my ebike spruced up so I can ride again, after a year where I kept off it for fear of re-injuring my wrist (which is pretty much healed now unless I really try to hurt it).

I’ve been doing a lot of crochet, and have added two entire “shelves” to my bookcase blanket since the last update photo:

Photo of my mosaic overlay crochet blanket. It looks like a bookshelf, with six shelves so far. On the lowest shelf is a cat sat on a book, while most of the other shelves are covered in books. There's an ikebana on the fourth shelf, and another cat sat in the midst of the books on the top shelf.

I’m pretty happy about the way it’s coming out. I have one more “shelf” to do, and then provided it’s the length I wanted (which I think it should be), I’ll be working on the border. That’s quite a hefty task, with some fiddly bits, but it encloses all the raw ends, so there’s almost no weaving in of ends to be done.

Gaming-wise, the big headline of the month is Dressmaker, which is really cute, has a fun story, and involves a lot of design work on pretty dresses. There are some weird requests, but for the most part I’ve just been able to create some really fun things, and there’s a reasonable degree of realism to the game. Definitely recommended. Other than that, it’s been a fairly quiet month for gaming, but I did finish A Building Full of Cats 2 and pick up Flats Full of Cats, both of which are the usual Devcats “hidden cats” fun (and Flats Full of Cats has a bunch of free levels).

Finally, my group did see the end of M12S in Final Fantasy XIV, and knocked out our ten clears for the achievement too.

A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV showing "AAC Heavyweight Tier (Savage) Complete!" above a fiery arena, with destruction in the background. Eight characters stand looking at it: a dragoon, a white mage, a viper, a warrior, a scholar, a paladin and a summoner.

That means a break from raiding for a while, though we intend to revisit M8S (from the previous set of raids) if possible, since not everyone got the mount from that before we switched to the new raids.

Reading stats:

StoryGraph reading stats for September 2026: 23 books, 5,953 pages, average rating of 3.22. My top rated reads included The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey), The Welsh Language (Janet Evans) and Worst Man (Brandt & Stein). The number of pages I read per day was pretty variable, with one really big peak on the 20th. More reading stats for September 2026: I read 82% fiction, 18% non-fiction, and 70% of my books were under 300 pages long, with 30% between 300 and 500 pages. I read 52% in print and 48% in digital editions, and my top genres were mystery (11), crime (7), LGBTQIA+ (5), romance (5) and historical (3).

Total books read: 23
Total pages read: 
Rereads: 0
ARCs: 1
Series finished/up to date: 2
Books owned pre-2026: 3
Books owned from 2026: 10
Borrowed books: 11

Fiction: 18
Non-fiction: 4
Poetry: 1
Comics, manga, manhwa, etc: 3

I read a little more this month, and it’s probably fair to say it’s got a lot to do with just reading by whim. Getting the game Dressmaker definitely led to me reading a bit less than I might’ve, but it was still a solid month.

Progress on reading goals:

Overall total books: 239/300 (14 books ahead)
Overall pages read: 57,638/75,000 (1,337 pages ahead)
Books read from backlog: 35/50 (2 books behind)
Books owned since 2026 and not yet started: 37/40

I haven’t made great headway against the overflow of books I permitted myself for my birthday… but you know what, that’s okay. Clearly it’s not the season of my life to focus on that. I would like to avoid having a net gain in number of unread books for the year as a whole, so I’ll work out what’s to be done there. Overall, though, lowering my goals and relaxing my limits has made things feel better all round, so I don’t regret it… even if I cherish secret hopes of somehow hitting my original 400-book goal anyway.

Blogging stats:

Screenshot of my blog stats showing growing visitor counts through the month, with a dip between September 8th and September 16th.

Views: 11.2k (down)
Visitors: 10.2k (down)
Likes: 396 (down)
Comments: 377 (down)
Reviews: 25
Other posts: 24

A quiet month, overall, but it started picking up toward the end. Maybe everyone’s settling back into the routine after summer holidays…?

Most viewed posts:

My own favourite posts:

Stuff I loved from elsewhere:

It felt like it was a pretty quiet month on my blog, with views, visitors and comment numbers all down… I wonder if the back-to-school season was keeping people too busy, compared to the lazy days of summer? Or maybe everyone’s been snatching last-minute holidays!

Regardless, I think it’s been a pretty good month.

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WWW Wednesday

Posted September 30, 2026 by Nicky in General / 4 Comments

Cover of The Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyWhat have you recently finished?

I actually finished a book this morning, since I was giving myself a lie-in after working extra hard earlier in the week. I’d started on Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time last night, and was fascinated to see where she took it exactly. I can see why it’s such a classic. Obviously she’s very much on the Ricardian side of the mystery (which centres on whether Richard III killed the princes in the Tower, if you don’t know the book — an injured policeman finds himself curious about it while bored with an injury and decides to investigate) and quite biased — but I did actually think it was quite a fun book, all round.

Cover of The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E. McKennaWhat are you currently reading?

I’m about 30% of the way through Juliet E. McKenna’s The Green Man’s Heir, and currently feeling pretty unsure about it. It’s a bit… oversexed? I feel like I’m reading a teenage boy describing women, yeesh. I think it’s partly a character thing, rather than the author, and that’s… fine up to a point, but I’m not sure I’m going to want to keep spending time with this character.

On the other hand, I know a lot of readers I trust enjoy the series, so I’m giving it a solid chance.

Cover of The Sunday Pigeon Murders by Craig RiceWhat will you be reading next?

I’m grabbing a book from my backlog which I suspect might not be for me, Craig Rice’s The Sunday Pigeon Murders. It’s adjacent to my interests, being a mystery from 1942, but it’s American rather than British, and sounds like it leans into a part of the genre that I generally don’t enjoy. We’ll see, but it might be a DNF.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Fall Covers

Posted September 29, 2026 by Nicky in General / 16 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is a fall freebie, and it’s been a while since I looked at book covers… so I’m going to dig out some fall-themed covers to enjoy! Some of these are set in fall or around Halloween, or have creepy Halloween-y vibes; some are just orange/red colours.

Cover of The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by Oliver K. Langmead Cover of Cat Dragon by Samantha Birch Cover of Phantom Pond by Juneau Black Cover of Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori Cover of The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett

Cover of After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine vol 4 by Liu Gou Hua Cover of Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw Cover of Twig's Traveling Tomes by Gryffin Murphy Cover of The Wrong Goodbye by Chris F. Holm Cover of The Hedge Witch of Foxhall by Anna Bright

Bit of a random mix, and not all books I’ve necessarily loved, but I enjoy the colours and had fun getting a chance to really look at and think about book covers again — it’s been a while!

I know there’s another cover-themed prompt coming up, so let’s hope I can pick different covers for that one, hehe.

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Fantasy with Friends: Seeing Reality Better

Posted September 28, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Fantasy With Friends: A Disccusion Meme hosted by Pages Unbound

Monday means Fantasy with Friends time! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about methods of worldbuilding:

Sometimes people talk about fantasy as allowing readers to see or realize things about our real world that they would not otherwise have seen (that is, they argue that fantasy can more effectively help us see reality than realistic fiction or even nonfiction can). Has this happened to you? Is there something you think about differently now because you were initially inspired to by a fantasy story?

I guess my answer is… not really. At least, not anything I could specifically point to.

I’ve definitely had realisations re-enforced by fantasy, for instance (and I’ve written about this before) the whole thing in Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea where Ged learns that he has to turn and face his shadow in order to be free of it. It makes a stunning metaphor for anxiety, honestly, and probably other mental health stuff. Once one comes face to face with what one fears, and looks at it closely, there’s often less to fear than one imagined — and while I don’t think anxiety is my superpower or anything like that (I hate that kind of faux-positivity about my mental health issues), the fact that I have this knowledge does help my everyday life significantly!

Also, despite the fact that it’s blatant Christian allegory, C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle ends with a man who worshipped Tash being accepted into Aslan’s Country, because though he worshipped Tash, he did good all the same. Again, the series is blatant Christian allegory so I don’t actually think Lewis would be on the Unitarian Universalist train with me, but I suspect all the same that that’s a part of what made me interested in Unitarian Universalism: the suggestion that all those who are good will go to the right place in the end, that perhaps there is no wrong god to worship as long as you live well. It’s a kind view of things, and that’s perhaps inevitably attractive to me.

(I don’t go in for discussing politics or religion much in detail on here, so it isn’t really the place to get into what exactly I believe now; I’ll just leave here the reminder that UUs can believe in more or less a Christian God, or the Muslim Allah, or anything else, or indeed be atheist, agnostic, humanist, etc. You can assume precisely nothing about what I believe in other than the Seven Principles, and I’d rather any comments don’t try to get any deeper than that.)

Otherwise, I can’t think of much… though perhaps when I see other people’s posts I’ll immediately realise there’s so much else I could’ve talked about.

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted September 26, 2026 by Nicky in General / 30 Comments

Oof, I’m so glad it’s the weekend! It’s been a busy week, but this weekend should be a pretty good one for staying in to read, crochet, play video games and recharge.

Books acquired this week

Last week I wrote that I was heading out to bookshops in York over the weekend, and hoping to pick up some spooky-themed reads to fit in with the Haunted Shelf readathon. It was really fun last year, but I didn’t read a lot of seasonal/spooky/creepy books… so I decided to fix that.

I had some success, so here’s a peek at the books I got while in York, mostly at Topping & Company and Portal Bookshop. Of course… they’re not all spooky, because I did find some other books I couldn’t resist.

First up, here are the books going straight on my Haunted Shelf list:

Cover of Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis Cover of Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman Cover of Ghosts of the British Museum by Noah Angell

Cover of Play Nice by Rachel Harrison Cover of Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison Cover of Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison Cover of Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

And yep, you do see a sneaky non-fiction about ghosts in there. But wait, there’s more…

Cover of Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K. England Cover of Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske Cover of Worst Man by Brandt & Stein Cover of The Castle by John Goodall

All in all, I made really good use of the remaining National Book Token balance I had left, plus my recent payment from selling books to World of Books (that’s my referral link, which would get you an extra £5 on a first trade, by the way).

And finally, I did also get an advance copy in this week, something I’d totally forgotten I’d requested:

Cover of The Only Way Out is Up by Django Wexler

Somehow I’ve never got round to reading anything of Wexler’s yet, so hopefully this’ll be the time!

Posts from this week

Here’s the usual roundup, starting with the reviews, including a rare five-star review!

As usual, a quick note to believe me when I say that 2/5 stars is a book that I found “okay”, and 3/5 stars really does mean I liked the book! As usual, as well, most of these reviews are for books I read a while ago: I write the reviews as I go, but hold my posts back a little so I don’t spam you all (given I read more than one book per day when I’m in the right mood), can post plenty of variety in genres etc, and have plenty in the tank for a quieter time.

Aaaand here are the other posts:

What I’m reading

It’s been a pretty good reading week; I think my deliberate leaning-in to mood reading has been working out well for me. Certainly last weekend I had more than one instance of sitting down and reading a book all in one go, which is always a lovely feeling.

Here are the books I’ve finished this week that I plan to review (less a manga that isn’t worth reviewing here):

Cover of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm Cover of Heartstopper vol 6 by Alice Oseman Cover of Worst Man by Brandt & Stein Cover of When the Wind Blows by Cyril Hare Cover of The Welsh Language: A History, by Janet Davies

Over the weekend, I’m still leaning into mood reading heavily, knowing I’m going to try to do some more directed reading in October for Haunted Shelf. Still, I’d like to finish the classic mystery I’m reading at the moment (Harriet Rutland’s Knock, Murderer, Knock!) and perhaps the third volume of The Villain’s White Halo, since that finishes off the series.

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: Best Blog Investment

Posted September 25, 2026 by Nicky in General / 6 Comments

A banner for a "Book Blogger Hop", with a photo of a bunny wearing glasses and its paws on a book

It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, 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 the backstage parts of blogging:

What’s the best investment you’ve made for your blog?

Well, I’d say it’s hosting it myself, but actually I’ve been kindly hosted by friends for free ever since I went self-hosted (currently hosted by Adam Wolf, a friend I’ve worked with for a couple of the same clients now!). So it’d have to be the Nose Graze Ultimate Book Blogger plugin, along with the Tweak Me theme. Both have helped make my blog the way I want it, and made things a bit prettier and more useful.

I suppose there is also my URL, which is nice and memorable!

Overall, though, it’s mostly the time I put into it, rather than money spent. The more time I spend writing and commenting, the livelier my blog feels, and that’s always nice, and has led to getting more review copies and the like, which is a nice perk.

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WWW Wednesday

Posted September 23, 2026 by Nicky in General / 4 Comments

Cover of Worst Man by Brandt & SteinWhat have you recently finished reading?

I finished two books last night, which I was very pleased with — two very different books, as is my wont, ahaha. One was Brandt & Stein’s Worst Man, which is a fun and ridiculous graphic novel in which one character is trying to make his best friend’s wedding amazing, and the other one is trying to ruin it (only, of course, he changes his mind). I love the art, the faces are so expressive and there’s a lot of comedy that arises from expression and posture.

The other was The Welsh Language: A History, by Janet Davies, which was a fairly quick read with some technical stuff about how the Welsh language works and has developed, and quite a lot about the modern history of the language.

Cover of The Villain's White Halo vol 3 by Hao Da Yi Juan Wei Sheng ZhiWhat are you currently reading?

I have two books actively on the go: one is The Castle: A History, by John Goodall: the chapters are quite short, but each illustrates a bit of the history of the castle as a concept through a specific example and a snippet of textual evidence about it. There are photos and such. It’s mildly interesting for me, but not absolutely gripping, because it never quite settles into explaining any single castle, so it feels shallow.

I’m also (still) reading volume three of The Villain’s White Halo, which I haven’t been in the mood for in the last few days. I did read a little yesterday, though!

Cover of A Death in Door County by Annalise RyanWhat will you be reading next?

I’m still very much going by whim until the end of the month, especially since doing that seems to be working to get me back to my usual level of reading… but I should attend to some of my library reads, at least enough to decide whether to just return them without finishing them. So maybe A Death in Door County (Annelise Ryan), which I’ve been meaning to try for ages?

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Top Ten Tuesday: Fall 2026 TBR

Posted September 22, 2026 by Nicky in General / 26 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is the seasonal TBR, and aaah, there are so many choices! But there are a few books that I know are coming out which go straight to the head of the pile, for a start… and some books I’ve started that I want to finish, as well as books I got for my birthday. Let’s see!

Cover of After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine vol 4 by Liu Gou Hua Cover of Mistakenly Saving the Villain vol 4 by Feng Yu Nie Cover of The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch Cover of The Toll by Cherie Priest Cover of Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  1. After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine, vol 4, by Liu Gou Hua.
    I loved the first three volumes deeply, and I can’t wait for this one, coming out in early November. The happy ending seems assured, but I wonder what it’s going to look like exactly — and whether anything happens with Jiang Suizhou transmigrating back again…
  2. Mistakenly Saving the Villain, vol 4, by Feng Yu Nie.
    I have no idea how this one is going to wrap up, and I’m very curious. Yue Wuhuan is, to put it it lightly, really not the sanest kind of person, and Song Qingshi seems set to enable him forever. If I recall rightly, this is coming out in October.
  3. The Nightmare Before Kissmas, by Sara Raasch.
    I’ve been curious about Raasch’s work for a while, though not sure if it’d be my thing. Luckily, this one’s on Kobo Plus, so I can give it a shot with very little commitment. Given one of the characters is the Prince of Halloween, I’m gonna count it as a spooky season read, though I think it might lean more to the Christmas end.
  4. The Toll, by Cherie Priest.
    Once upon a time, I had this to review on Netgalley. I never got round to it, but it seems like now’s the time to unearth it, to join the other creepy books I’ll be reading to theme with the Haunted Shelf readathon (signup info here).
  5. Certain Dark Things, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
    This is another one I’ve had around for a long time that seems worth unearthing for the occasion! I really really wanted to read it at the time, and I’ve generally enjoyed Moreno-Garcia’s work; I’m not sure why it’s never risen to the top of my TBR before.
  6. The Library After Dark, by Ande Pliego.
    This is a book I got for my birthday that seems to suit the season somewhat as well, though it’s more thriller than horror. I couldn’t help but be attracted by the promise of a story revolving around books, though… often books don’t live up to that promise, sadly.
  7. A Trade of Blood, by Robert Jackson Bennett.
    I can’t believe I haven’t already got round to this one! I lost access to the Netgalley version through taking too long, because life got busy for a minute. I enjoy the series a lot, so I’m looking forward to it.
  8. Kiss Slay Replay, by Rachel Harrison.
    I enjoyed one of Harrison’s other books (Cackle), so I got myself a couple more, including this one, for my spooky season TBR. It sounds from other people’s reviews like it’s pretty fun, so I’m looking forward to giving it a proper shot.
  9. Harbour of Hungry Ghosts, by Eliza Chan.
    Somehow I’d forgotten about this one for a couple of weeks there (I think it didn’t get into my list properly), but I did receive a copy to review, so it’s high on my list of books to read now! It’s not strictly the Western tradition of ghosts, but I think it should work well enough with the theme I’m mostly leaning into with these.
  10. Our Cut of Salt, by Deena Helm.
    This one sounds really fascinating, with a haunted house in Haifa that hasn’t been visited by the family since the Nakba… it also sounds like it’s likely to be pretty heavy, given the givens, but I’m hoping that it uses that to give plenty of weight to the horror as well. I’m a wuss, though, so hopefully it won’t be too scary!

Cover of The Library after Dark by Ande Pliego Cover of A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett Cover of Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison Cover of Harbour of Hungry Ghosts by Eliza Chan Cover of Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm

Whether I’ll actually stick to this or not is always quite the question… but we’ll see!

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Fantasy with Friends: Worldbuilding

Posted September 21, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Fantasy With Friends: A Disccusion Meme hosted by Pages Unbound

Monday means Fantasy with Friends time! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about methods of worldbuilding:

Ursula K Le Guin has written about “consciously imitating” Tolkien and creating a wider landscape and history for her fantasy world by naming events or places she actually knew nothing about at the time she wrote them (as opposed to Tolkien, who was referencing events already decided in his unpublished work). What do you think of this strategy for creating “plausibility?” Do you think readers can tell when authors are referencing things that have no “real” definition? Can it come across as just making stuff up, or can it work to convince the reader the world is real?

I don’t think Le Guin and Tolkien’s methods are as far apart as they sound, because Tolkien did make things up at some point (he wasn’t writing real history, after all!), and sometimes when asked questions about aspects of the world, he hadn’t worked them out (or hadn’t worked them out fully yet). I think the difference is mostly in approach: Tolkien was deliberately setting out to write his own language and history, and ensuring that all fit together was part of the enjoyment for him. But Ursula Le Guin wasn’t a careless writer, and she didn’t generally write herself into corners with this kind of thing: she didn’t come up with something and later trip over it, or if she did, she wrote herself back out of it again.

That said, I know more about Tolkien’s approach than hers, to be honest, since I’ve studied Tolkien and read his collected letters, etc. I’ve read some of Le Guin’s essays, but by no means all, and I definitely haven’t gone spelunking in work unpublished by her in her lifetime. I can only speak to my experience as a reader, and generally she had guiding principles behind her worlds and then explored those. With her work, and I think in her essays reflecting on that, there’s a sense of her discovering stuff that in her mind was “already there”. Things happened in Earthsea in the back of her mind while she wasn’t watching, which tells me that she wasn’t just making things up to, say, write a story to fit an anthology. She had principles established so that when she did “visit” a certain aspect of her world, things unfolded naturally.

I don’t think all writers are as thorough as Tolkien or as skilled as Le Guin, for sure. I know that when I make something up when I’m writing, I have to put at least a bit of thought into what’s behind it in order to be sure it fits and that it won’t mess anything up later. Sometimes it’s worth it to include something that messes other things up later, though, because the mess is interesting and then editing fixes any continuity issues and smooths the rough edges.

Some writers definitely end up writing themselves into corners by realising in book three that they stated something in book one that no longer makes sense, or by forgetting details they made up previously. It can definitely cause problems like leaving the world-building feeling flat, because nothing leads anywhere, or everything’s just mentioned once in passing.

In the end, it comes down to author skill — and the skill of their editor — in tidying up those loose ends and making sure they’ve breathed enough life into the thing, and in making the reader trust them. I think the important thing is that you need to create a feeling that there’s stuff going on around the story, rather than that the only things which ever happen in your world are somehow all plot relevant.

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted September 19, 2026 by Nicky in General / 26 Comments

Happy weekend! Despite my recent book sprees, this weekend I’m off to a book shop (or four) after a long week, while Lisa’s going to a spinning skill-share session in honour of Worldwide Spin in Public Day. After all, I have some book vouchers I could spend! So, um, maybe I will have even more goodies next time we meet here.

For now, let’s get to this week’s roundup…

Books I’ve acquired this week

I haven’t bought anything since my birthday spree (see the last three StS posts, which cover all that), but I did get two books for review this week, and one book via my British Library Crime Classics subscription.

Cover of Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm Cover of The Double Dorothy by Olivia Waite Cover of Eat, Drink and Be Murdered, ed. Martin Edwards

I’m saving Our Cut of Salt for October, since it fits beautifully into the spooky theme of the Haunted Shelf readathon — but I’ve already dug into The Double Dorothy and Eat, Drink and Be Murdered, and indeed polished them off.

(If you’re curious about Haunted Shelf, it’s running this year on Litsy and Discord, and all the details are at the link above.)

Posts from this week

As ever, I’ve been posting aplenty, so here’s the usual roundup! Reviews first:

As ever, don’t forget that even 2/5 stars is a book that I found “okay”, and when I say 3/5 stars means “liked it”, I’m not joking! And as per usual, these aren’t books I’ve necessarily read recently, since I have a huge backlog of pre-written reviews that I post slowly to avoid spamming everyone.

With that, let’s move on to the other posts:

Comments on any of my posts are always welcome, of course, even if they’re older!

What I’m reading

I’ve been focusing on just reading according to my whim, and that’s been paying off this week with a bit of a pick-up in the number of books I finished. There have been some disappointing moments (Illumino, sadly), but mostly I’ve had a fun week, enjoying all of my other reads. Here are the books I’ve finished this week:

Cover of The Villain's White Halo vol 2 by Hao Da Yi Juan Wei Sheng Zhi Cover of Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough Cover of Let Him Lie by Ianthe Jerrold Cover of Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun

Cover of Illumino by Michelle P. Brown Cover of The Double Dorothy by Olivia Waite Cover of Eat, Drink and Be Murdered, ed. Martin Edwards

This weekend, I’m not actually sure what I might read; I only have one book on the go at the moment, the third volume of The Villain’s White Halo. I’ll probably spend some time with that, and otherwise… who knows? As ever, I’ll stick with my whims.

Hope everyone has 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.

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