Happy weekend! Here’s hoping the forecast spoke true and we’ll be getting some cooler weather here, because the heat is incredible. It is definitely too bloody hot (a song which is stuck in my cranium something fierce).

Books acquired this week

I wasn’t intending to get any books this week, but I definitely wasn’t going to say no when my wife had the opportunity to grab me volume two of The Wife Comes First, and I’d been looking for volume three of Guardian for a long time and panicking about the fact that almost nowhere had it…

I really want to get round to the next volume of The Wife Comes First sooner or later… and honestly I should start on Guardian before long, before I forget all the details of the world! The mythology is pretty complex, after all.

Posts from this week

As ever, there have been a lot of posts this week, so I’ll do a bit of a round-up. First, the reviews!

• Graphic novel: Lady-Bird, by Fabrice Sapolsky and Dawn J. Starr (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Fantasy: Solo Leveling (light novel), vol 8, by Chugong (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Sci-fi/fantasy/romance: Clean Sweep, by Ilona Andrews (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: 20th Century Fashion in Detail, by Claire Wilcox and Valerie D. Mendes (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Poetry: Parallax, by Sinéad Morrissey (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Crime: The Last Escape, by E.C.R. Lorac (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, those don’t necessarily reflect this week’s reading, since I hold back reviews to try to get a diverse range over time.

Before we get into what I’ve been reading this week, here are the other posts I’ve made this week:

• Fantasy with Friends: Magical Libraries
• Top Ten Tuesday: Summer TBR
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

It’s been a lot for such a horribly hot week weather-wise! Unusually for people in the UK, my wife and I have a couple of portable A/C units, which have been lifesavers for us and the rabbits.

What I’m reading

I think last week I’d already fallen into my old habit of swapping between books after reading only a chapter or two, and rotating through that way. I’ve mostly kept that up this week, and I still think it’s working well for the way I’m feeling lately and is maybe a bit more natural to me than focusing on finishing a given book — unless the mood takes me, which it did a couple of times this week.

So without further ado, here are the books I finished reading this week:

I’m honestly impressed I finished everything, given general busyness and the heat — but my reading time was quite high this week, actually! Helped by one late night with a toothache after dental work (which fortunately settled down and was just because it was new, this time) where I couldn’t resist starting a new-to-me E.C.R. Lorac…

Anyway, this weekend I’m reading volume three of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, have returned to Rachel Reid’s Game Changer, am knee-deep in Charlotte Booth’s Lost Voices of the Nile, and have started on Sophia Smith Galer’s How to Kill a Language. I’ll probably stick to those, though I have earmarked some library books that I really need to get round to, so it’s possible I’ll start on one of those.

Hope everyone has a good weekend — and to those in areas where it’s been really astoundingly hot, hope you’re doing alright and that the hot weather has ended or will end soon. Hang in there!

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.

Happy weekend! I’ve been in a reading mood for the last couple of days, so I’m very much looking forward to a lazy day.

Books acquired this week

This week’s been a busy one! My wife and I went to Manchester last weekend to go to the art gallery (to see their WORN: the life within clothes exhibition) and, let’s be real, get some books. I was hoping I’d pick some up at Queer Lit, but I confess to having found the (lack of) organisation of the shelves a bit too annoying, so I didn’t manage to get anything at an indie, despite Independent Bookshop Week.

Still, I did find myself some books, and absolutely no one is surprised by that.

So first up, the fiction! I’m also including one book I got via this week’s Top Ten Tuesday wishlist sharing, kindly sent me by Emma from Words and Peace, which made me smile.

I love both Ilona Andrews and Cat Sebastian, so I’d been looking out for those, and I’ve been meaning to try the graphic novel adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea for a while, so that was a nice find too.

I also picked up a little more poetry, since I’ve enjoyed Mary Oliver’s work recently:

I’ve read both of them already — not my favourites among her collections, but there’s always something lovely about her work.

Finally, I got some non-fiction, some of which I’d been anticipating for a while:

Overall a nice little haul, and I’ve started most of them already! Impulse buys turning into impulse reads has turned out to be a very good thing for my reading mood at the moment.

Posts from this week

Right! As ever, I’ve done a fair few posts this week, so let’s do a bit of a roundup. Reviews first:

• Fantasy: Solo Leveling light novel vol 7, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Crime short stories: Puzzles of the Parish, ed. Martin Edwards (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• History: Queer Georgians, by Anthony Delaney (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: In the Hollow of the Wave, by Nina Mingya Powles (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 5, by Itaru Kinoshita (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

As ever, most of those aren’t very recent reads, because even with my slower reading lately, I’ve got a huge backlog of reviews written but not yet posted… I’ll talk about what I’ve been reading this week below!

And now the other posts!

• 20 Books of Summer: Getting Started
• Fantasy with Friends: Merch
• Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Wishes
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

I’m getting off to a good start with 20 Books of Summer, too, with two of my chosen books finished!

What I’m reading

I’ve been reading a lot more this week, which is a relief! I’ve been reading a few books in tandem, as usual, but very actively, so I expect I’ll finish a bunch of them this week. Thinking about it, that’s how I used to read all the time — reading a chapter of one book and then swapping to another! All this focus on finishing books, whether for ARCs or just because I feel like I “ought” to for my stats or whatever, has maybe not been serving me super well at the moment. I think the variety is helping my attention span.

Anyway, first let’s talk about the books I did finish this week:

As you can see, it’s a bit more like my usual reading! I completely mainlined The Wife Comes First vol 1, and my wife is probably going to venture out and snag me volume 2 today, since it grabbed me.

The four books I’m currently rotating through most actively are Harry Tanner’s The Queer Thing about Sin, Feng Yu Nie’s Mistakenly Saving the Villain, A.J. West’s How Queer Bookshops Changed the World and Jean-Yves Mollier’s A History of Booksellers and the Bookshop, and I’m kinda hoping I’ll finish all four of those this weekend. When I finish one of the non-fiction books, I’ll probably slot Charlotte Booth’s Lost Voices of the Nile into the rotation, while I think Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Trade in Blood might be next up in fiction…

I do also want to read a couple of poetry collections so the library can have them back, so I might fit them in somewhere, too. But it’ll depend on my whim in the moment: I’ve only just got back my urge to read after a few weeks of very little reading, I’m not going to spoil it now!

I hope everyone else has a lovely/restful/enjoyable weekend planned. ♡

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.

Happy weekend, folks! I have plans for the day, so I’m looking forward to that… but I’m hoping for a quiet Sunday to go with it. For now, let’s look at my week in books, though it’s been a pretty quiet one.

Books acquired this week

I thought I hadn’t got anything, but actually I was wrong! I got offered the first one to review, and I’ve been curious about this author for a while and enjoying other pre-release reviews. Plus, my British Library Crime Classic for this month arrived!

I’ve already tucked into Puzzles of the Parish, since short stories sounded exactly my speed this week. What a contrast in those covers, ahaha.

Posts from this week

First up as always, the reviews:

• Fashion history: Japanese Dress in Detail, by Josephine Rout (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: A Dress of Locusts, by Safa Khatib (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Romance manga: The Stranger in the Hoarding House, by Joe Aruku (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 4, by Itaru Kinoshita (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy short stories: Seasons of Glass & Iron, by Amal El-Mohtar (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

None of these were read this week, since I have a long backlog of reviews ready to post and try to mix it up and keep a range ready to post!

Other posts:

• Fantasy with Friends: Series or Standalones
• Top Ten Tuesday: Handwriting on Covers
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Pride Month Reading

What I’m reading

This week, the line-up of books I’ve finished is very small, because I’ve been busy with a new work thing and also just letting my brain rest and do whatever in my downtime. I did finish one book, though — a random pick from Kobo Plus!

I’m not sure how much reading I’ll get done today, since I’ll be out for most of it, but I hope to finish Puzzles of the Parish. Other than that, I’d like to finish up volume two of Mistakenly Saving the Villain, but we’ll see! I’m still trying to let myself settle down and just read whatever’s fun to me in the moment.

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.

Happy weekend! I’ve had a fairly quiet week without feeling in the mood for much, but I got out of the house yesterday for a little adventure (viewing the UK AIDs Memorial Quilt, which is on display this weekend not too far away) and feel a bit perkier today, so let’s hope for some good weekend reading.

Books acquired this week

Nothing new in the mail for me, but I did pick up some library books! These were more or less random choices just based on whatever I spotted in a very quick trawl through while waiting…

 

And a hold came in from the National Poetry Library:

It’s possible I put it on hold just for the hippos on the cover!

Posts from this week

Starting with the reviews:

• Mystery comic: The Great British Bump-Off, by John Allison et al (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 3, by Itaru Kinoshita (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy mystery: The Killing of a Chestnut Tree, by Oliver K. Langmead (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: Solo Leveling, vol 6, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Classic mystery: The Unicorn Murders, by Carter Dickson (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As usual, most of them aren’t books I’ve finished super recently, since I hold back reviews to keep a mix of genres going. The books I’ve read this week are in the next section though!

Other posts:

• Fantasy with Friends: Fantasy Tropes
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• May Reading Wrap-Up

What I’m reading

It was a bit of a slow week as far as reading goes, though I did some organising of my currently-reading pile and got realistic, so the terrifying stack is a bit better managed now, and I kinda hope that will perk me up. I did finish a few books, and they weren’t short ones either, so it wasn’t a bad week, all the same!

This weekend I’m hoping to return to Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters, which I’ve been neglecting, and maybe start on volume two of Feng Yu Nie’s Mistakenly Saving the Villain… but I’m not super set on anything, and mostly planning to follow my whim. Not doing that is what gets me feeling overwhelmed and unhappy with my reading, after all.

I haven’t made much progress on my crochet since last week, but I’m hoping to get some work in on that, too.

Happy reading, folks!

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.

Happy Saturday from surprisingly sunny Yorkshire! At least, it was a surprise to me, after all the grey and rainy days. I’m not looking forward to the high temperature forecast for Monday, but this morning I’m sat by the window with a fresh breeze, so things feel pretty good.

Books acquired this week

A quiet week on this front, but I did just borrow a couple more books from the National Poetry Library for the weekend! So here they are: first the translated poetry I read earlier in the week, and the two I just picked up for weekend reading.

I wasn’t initially drawn to The Home Child, and then I spotted it was a verse novel. Given that I did enjoy The Black Flamingo, I thought I’d give a totally different verse novel a chance too and see what I think. Not sure if the National Poetry Library has any others I might be interested in, but I’ll take a look next time I have a loan slot free.

Posts from this week

Let’s start with the reviews as usual:

• Graphic novel: My Heart in Braille, by Joris Chamblain, Pascal Ruter & Anne-Lise Nalin (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Manga: Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 1, by Itaru Kinoshita (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: The Keeper of Magical Things, by Julie Leong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: Solo Leveling light novel, vol 5, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• History: Folk Song in England, by Steve Roud (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• YA: The Black Flamingo, by Dean Atta (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, those aren’t the books I’ve been reading this week, for the most part. Those are below in the next section!

Aaand the other posts:

• Fantasy with Friends: Fairytale Retellings
• Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Secondary/Minor Characters
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

It wasn’t a great week for reading, via a combination of getting a bit blocked by a book I wasn’t settling down with but was stubborn to finish plus my new crochet project. The former I’m finally just 50 pages or so from finishing (and things are coming together better than I’d feared), and the latter… well, it’s still going to steal a lot of my time, but I understand the technique and how to read/interpret the pattern now, so each row goes a little faster and smoother than at the start.

Anyway, here’s what I did manage to read since my last post!

Which looks like quite a bit, but they were all fairly short reads, especially The Brothers, which is a kid’s book — I’d got curious about it because it’s a retelling of a Hmong myth, and references to the Hmong have come up in various bits of reading lately.

For this weekend, I hope to finish Cecilia Edward’s An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating and Tom Service’s A History of the World in 50 Pieces. I’d love to fit in reading some comics and poetry around that as well, but (as ever) it’s down to my whim. There’s also a possibility I’ll just snag something random from the books I’m currently reading, curl up and go to town on finishing it. I’d love for that to happen, because I am starting to feel a biiiit overwhelmed by the number of books I have on the go, heh.

But of course there’ll be plenty of casual video games and crochet, too. Or so I hope!

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.

Happy weekend! And happy reading time? Well, for some of us at least.

Books acquired this week

I had no intention of getting anything this week, except maybe some more poetry from the library, but then I realised that volume three of the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint novel was out… and volume ten of the manhwa. How is a person of flesh and blood supposed to resist?

I did also get some more poetry from the library, since I’m trying to use some short books to fill gaps in my day, so there they are:

I’ve already dug into two of those, so I’m sure I’ll have more loans soon. Hurrah for libraries!

Posts from this week

First the review posts, as per usual:

• Horror graphic novel: Home Sick Pilots, vol 3: Three Chords and the End of the World, by Dan Watters et al (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: The Grendel Affair, by Lisa Shearin (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Fantasy: Solo Leveling light novel, vol 4, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Mystery: The Murder at World’s End, by Ross Montgomery (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: The Meteorite Hunters, by Joshua Howgego (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Craftland: A Journey through Britain’s Lost Arts & Vanishing Trades, by James Fox (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: Somewhere There is a Sky for Us, ed. Joelle Taylor (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)

As ever, these aren’t necessarily recent reads, since I store up reviews to spread out the genres I’m posting about as much as possible. See below for the books I’ve been reading this week!

And of course there have been some other posts:

• Fantasy with Friends: Early Memories
• Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

Things are still a bit quiet on the reading front, and let’s admit it, it’s at least partly due to my newfound special interest in hidden object games. Oh well: I don’t read as part of a curriculum or obligation or whatever, but for my own enjoyment… and these things come and go. And I did do quite a bit of reading this week all the same — here are the books I finished!

This weekend I’m planning to finish up An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating and A History of the World in 50 Pieces, for the latter of which I might switch to audiobook, especially if the audiobook has any snippets of the actual pieces. I’m being somewhat hindered in following the text by not knowing all the music, and there doesn’t seem to be a handy playlist or anything.

Other than that, I do also want to dig into volume ten of the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint manhwa, and probably read another couple of shortish reads: a manga or comic, probably, and another poetry collection (the Mimi Khalvati collection is rather calling to me).

That said, I might be slowed up this weekend by the arrival of yarn for a new crochet project. It’s been a while, but I ended up sorely tempted by this beautiful pattern, and I didn’t see any reason not to give it a shot. Listening to the audiobook of A History of the World in 50 Pieces might be a good accompaniment to that, once I’ve got started and sorted out my initial stitch count. The whole width is worked for each row, so I’ll want to concentrate to make sure I get that right.

And of course, I’m sure I’ll be playing plenty of hidden object and puzzle games, too!

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.

Oof, another long week, but here we are on the other side!

Books acquired this week

This week I’ve been blessed with a couple of review copies from Hachette/Orbit, one of them being extremely exciting to me: the new Ann Leckie!

I’m hoping to dig into both pretty soon; I’ve been meaning to read more of Fonda Lee’s work as well, though I think Radiant Star is likely to jump the queue straight onto my currently-reading pile, ahaha.

I also “had to” grab a book to fill out an order for express delivery (oh no), so I picked up a highly anticipated non-fiction:

I’m excited to dig into this as well: I’ve always been fascinated with Pompeii, and (to the complaints of my traveling companion) thoroughly explored every area tourists had access to when I visited.

Finally, I’ve been trying to keep up my explorations of poetry, despite the sad news about Carol Rumens (editor of the Guardian‘s poetry column, which I’d been using to give me ideas). So here’s a couple of books I borrowed from the National Poetry Library:

Posts from this week:

I’ve kept up with posts pretty well, so there’s plenty to highlight. Starting with the reviews:

• Fantasy novella: Fate’s Bane, by C.L. Clark (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy light novel: Solo Leveling, vol 3, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings, by Toby Wilkinson (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Poetry: Felicity, by Mary Oliver (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Non-fiction: How Flowers Made Our World, by David George Haskell (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, these aren’t a reflection of my reading week — often the reviews I post are of books I finished a couple of months ago, depending on the genre. See below for this week’s reads!

First, though, there have been some non-review posts, though Let’s Talk Bookish is currently on hiatus. Here’s the roundup:

• Fantasy with Friends: Further Reading
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Picked Up On A Whim
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading:

I’m still not up to my normal reading speed, but I added a little daily habit for this month that I’m hoping will at least keep things moving: every day, I read at least 15 minutes of whichever book I’m closest to finishing. That has been pretty effective so far, whittling down my currently-reading pile from 30 to 26 since the start of the month. That said, I think I’m going to undo all that work this weekend by starting new books, ahaha.

In any case, here are the books I’ve finished this week!

It’s been a pretty good week for reading! I’m not sure what I’ll focus on this weekend, honestly. I think the book I’m next-closest to finishing is Ai Jiang’s A Palace Near the Wind, so probably I’ll spend some time with that, and I probably want to start Radiant Star and The Lost Voices of Pompeii.

I’ve had a busy and weird couple weeks, though, so I’ll probably mostly follow whatever urge hits me: I’m keen to read more of Kate Strasdin’s Dressing the Queen, for instance.

Hope everyone’s been having a good week, and I wish you all a nice 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.

Oof, that was a busy week! I’ve been making up for it so far this weekend by lazing around: I don’t usually wait so late in the day to compose my weekend post. So without further ado…

Books acquired this week

I didn’t do much shopping while I was in London, since it was a flying visit, but while I was waiting for my train home in the evening, I did pop into Hatchard’s in St Pancras International. I actually had some credit for free books on my Waterstones card, and of course you can use that at Hatchard’s too.

In other words, it was inevitable! I got a few new non-fiction books:

I’ve been looking at the first two for a bit, the first because of my interest in fashion history, and the second because I love that kind of popular history. As far as The Black Death goes… well, given I was in London to receive my MSc in Infectious Diseases, it seemed only right, since the book was right there and so appropriate.

I did pick up a couple of fiction books I’ve been curious about, as well:

I’ve been curious about The Murder at World’s End since I saw it in the shop and then only a couple of days later saw Mogsy’s (very enthusiastic) review; I dove into that one almost right away, and I’m enjoying it so far. Thistlemarsh is one I’ve mostly seen on people’s wishlists, and haven’t seen many reviews (if any?) for yet.

Posts from this week

I didn’t post quite as much this week as usual, since there was no Let’s Talk Bookish prompt, and I was too busy on a couple of days. Still, there’s plenty to round up even so! Reviews first:

• Fantasy mystery: The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society, by C.M. Waggoner (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Mystery: Murder at Gulls Nest, by Jess Kidd (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Boring Postcards USA, by Martin Parr (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Romance manga: Do You Really Want Only a Meal? vol 2, by Yasu Tadano (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy manga: Delicious in Dungeon, vol 1, by Ryoko Kui (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)

As ever, some of these reviews have been waiting in the wings for a while, since I have a huge backlog of reviews written and not yet posted, and I try to mix things up rather than dump sixteen reviews of a manga series in one go, ahaha.

And of course, there were other posts this week:

• Fantasy with Friends: Future Classics
• Top Ten Tuesday: Power Couples
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• April Reading Wrap-Up

Really, I think I kept busy enough around here, ahaha.

What I’m reading

It’s been a mixed week, reading-wise; I read quite a bit last weekend, and then only 20 minutes or so per day for the last couple of days. As ever, I have a sneak peek at the books I’ve finished this week which I plan to review:

Lots of non-fiction, as you see! I’m hoping to settle down to some fiction this weekend and finish S.L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws, and I’ve already found myself quite drawn to The Murder at World’s End, so I’ll probably focus on those two. I do want to read more of Kate Strasdin’s Dressing the Queen… and I’ve vowed to finish Gareth Russell’s Queen James as well.

Quite the stack I have before me — oh nooo, what shall I do, etc.

Hope everyone’s got a fun and/or relaxing weekend planned!

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.

Woo, weekend! I look forward to a day of hidden object games and reading. Hope everyone’s had a good week!

Books acquired this week

I haven’t really been meaning to acquire anything this week, but somehow library books have been happening to me… First up, from the National Poetry Library:

And from my local, a book I’d rather randomly reserved based on someone’s review. I’ve forgotten who! If it might’ve been you, speak up, ahaha:

And finally, I decided after a fair bit of dithering to request TJ Klune’s new novella:

I’d been hesitating, but it’s a novella — it shouldn’t take me that long to read, after all! And I have enjoyed Klune’s work in the past, I just didn’t want to accept more to review without being pretty certain I’d actually get to it anytime soon, ahaha.

Posts from this week

As ever, time for a quick roundup of what I’ve been posting, starting with the reviews:

• Fantasy romance: The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, by Brigitte Knightley (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Horror: Snake-eater, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Classic mystery: Jack on the Gallows Tree, by Leo Bruce (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: Blue Horses, by Mary Oliver (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• History: The Library of Ancient Wisdom, by Selena Wisnom (5/5 stars, “loved it”)
• Horror graphic novel: Home Sick Pilots, vol 2, by Dan Watters et al (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy: Solo Leveling (light novel), vol 2, by Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And the other posts:

• Fantasy With Friends: Favourite Subgenres
• Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Climate Fiction

What I’m reading

It’s still been a quiet sort of week for me when it comes to reading — I’m hoping to bust out of my funk somewhat this weekend! It looks like more reading than it is, because the poetry and the manga were pretty short. All the same, I did finish a few books, especially last weekend:

I’m planning a bit of a catch-up this week, focusing on a few books I’m actually meant to be trading in soon (oops), including Queer Georgians (Anthony Delaney), How Flowers Made the World (David George Haskell) and The Meteorite Hunters (Joseph Howgego). It seemed a lot more reasonable I’d have them read in time at the start of the month when I set up the trade-in, ahaha. I also want to work on finishing my Book Spin and Double Spin books for the Litsy challenge, so that’s Queen James (Gareth Russell) and The Water Outlaws (S.L. Huang).

I don’t expect to finish them all this weekend by any means, but I’d like to get a chunk into them. I may also go for some lighter reading and tackle that TJ Klune novella, though.

Does anyone else have grand reading plans for the weekend? Good luck, folks!

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.