Greetings! It’s been a rough week for me that featured an urgent trip to the eye casualty unit. I’m recovering pretty well given the givens, and escaped with just a corneal abrasion and multiple antibiotics to apply every couple of hours, but I’m a tad limited on how long I can use screens without eye strain right now.
Biscuit Bun is really very sorry for causing all this…
As ever, 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:
I may have had a book-buying spree to help make me feel better, even though it’s only just been Christmas and there’s already plenty on my TBR heap…
Bit of a mix, as usual! I’m excited about The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which Waterstones had on sale a biiit before the release date. I was lucky: I walked in just as one of the booksellers put this on the shelf.
I also received a few of books to review:
If you saw my Top Ten Tuesday post, you’ll have noticed this means I actually got several of the books I’m most looking forward to in the first half of 2024, which is really nice!
Posts from this week:
I didn’t post as many reviews this week due to it being a really bad week, but there were plenty of posts to recap, all the same!
- Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones, by Ken McNamara (2/5 stars)
- Tickets for the Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit (3/5 stars)
- Twilight Falls, by Juneau Black (4/5 stars)
- Clean Room vol 3 – Waiting for the Stars to Fall, by Gail Simone et al (3/5 stars)
- The Governess Affair, by Courtney Milan (5/5 stars)
- The Impossible Impostor, by Deanna Raybourn (2/5 stars)
And other posts:
What I’m reading:
It’s been mostly graphic novels so far this week, which were short and easy while I was stressed, but I did also finish (and love) A City on Mars, by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith. Over the weekend I hope to get stuck into some of my new non-fic reading, and polish off a novel or two.
Assuming my eye holds up, anyway… I’ll skip the preview of reviews to come because I’m not on my usual computer and I need to take a break from my screen now.
How’s everyone else doing? A better week than mine, I hope!