Hurrah, the weekend! I’ve been looking forward to it eagerly, as I’ve put in a load of work on my essays this week, as well as working my usual hours, etc, etc. Not as much reading time as I’d like — hopefully I’ll get plenty over the weekend to make up for it.
As usual, linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.
Books acquired this week:
Last weekend, my wife duly went to the bookshop and acquired the book I owed myself as a reward for finishing a draft of my parasitology essay (Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands). Once there, it seems there was another book that couldn’t quite be resisted…
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation is by the same author as The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, so we just had to get it, right?!
Technically, my wife went out last night to grab me a couple of new books, because I’ve been working so hard and really fancied grabbing a copy of Alice Roberts’ Crypt when I saw that Waterstones have them out already… But I haven’t unpacked the bag and added it to my StoryGraph TBR yet, so I’ll include them next week.
Posts from this week:
It’s been a busy week on the blog, as usual, so here’s a roundup in case anyone missed it!
- Archaeology: Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, A Million Years of History, by Mike Pitts (4/5 stars)
- Popular science: Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything, by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith (3/5 stars)
- Fantasy novella: Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (4/5 stars)
- Sci-fi comic: Heartstopper: Become Human, by Alice Oseman (4/5 stars)
- Classic mystery: Impact of Evidence, by Carol Carnac AKA E.C.R. Lorac (3/5 stars)
- Anglo-Saxon history: The Bone Chests, by Cat Jarman (3/5 stars)
- SF time travel novella: Permafrost, by Alastair Reynolds (3/5 stars)
Other posts:
What I’m reading:
This week’s been a bit quiet again — with the graphic novels it still looks like I read a lot, but I mostly read non-fiction, which tends to be a bit slower for me. Over the weekend I’ll be continuing with reading Cat Bohannon’s Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution, which so far is reassuringly inclusive of all kinds of female bodies.
I’ll probably also finish up my reread of the third volume of The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, finish reading Seanan McGuire’s Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, and make a start on Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. So fiction will make a comeback (I think).
Anyway, here are teaser cover images for the books I’ll be reviewing in the coming weeks.
How’s everyone doing? Reading anything amazing?