Weekend time! And nearly the end of the month too; I cannot believe it’s about to be December.

Books acquired this week

This week we have two books acquired to review! Both from Netgalley; I’ve not been lucky enough (so far at least) to get physical copies.

I’m excited for both! Technically I got the version of Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter with the UK cover, but I like this one better and I already had it saved, sooo. There you are.

Posts from this week

I’ve continued posting extras to get to grips with the pre-written review backlog, so there’s a bunch again for the roundup this week! As ever, don’t forget that most of them are books I read weeks/months ago by this point, so it doesn’t reflect this week’s reading. That’s below in the “What I’m reading” section!

• Crime: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Non-fiction: Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside: Treasure and Ghosts in the London Clay, by Victoria Shepherd (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Prose-poetry: Seeing Stars, by Simon Armitage (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 8, by Dubu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: Paladin’s Hope, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Classic crime: Jumping Jenny, by Anthony Berkeley (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: The House Dress: A Story of Eroticism and Fashion, by Elda Danese (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: The Book of Were-Wolves: Were-Wolf History and Folklore, by Sabine Baring-Gould (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Young adult: Felix Ever After, by Kacen Callender (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Young adult horror: Hold Back the Tide, by Melinda Salisbury (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

Aaand if you were curious (as people often are) about why I bother to finish/rate/review low-star reads, I wrote about that not so long ago.

What I’m reading

After a quiet reading week last week, I finished eight books last weekend, so this was a bit more action-packed (inasfar as reading is action). Here’s a sneak peek at the ones I intend to review on the blog sometime:

As you see, I’ve been busy, though my reading did slow down after the weekend.

As for the weekend’s plans, I’m not sure. I’ve finished my Book Spin Bingo card early for once, so I think I might chill with some manga/graphic novels, and maybe read volume four of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. As ever, though, it’s down to my whim!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

Wooo, weekend! This one feels much-needed.

Books acquired this week

Just one this week! I’ve been waiting for this book for a bit, so hurrah for its arrival:

I need to read it soon because I’m considering it as a Christmas gift for someone, so I might get started very soon.

Reviews from this week

I’ve continued posting extra reviews from the backlog of (ready-written) reviews I have to post, catching myself up a bit on the backlog. So a roundup definitely seems like a good idea! As ever, click the links to read the full review.

• Poetry: So Far So Good, by Ursula Le Guin (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, by Dan Saladino (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Graphic novel: The Deep Dark, by Lee Knox Ostertag (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: The Honey Witch, by Sydney J. Shields (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Gothic mystery: All of Us Murderers, by KJ Charles (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: Door into the Dark, by Seamus Heaney (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality, by Molly Conisbee (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Vaccines: A Graphic History, by Paige V. Polinsky (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Romance manga: In Love’s Key, Reprised, by Guri Nojiro (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy: The Bookshop Below, by Georgia Summers (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

Reminder: I read most of these months ago, my ratings here don’t indicate whether I had a good or bad reading week!

What I’m reading

I’ve had a pretty slow reading week! I had quite a few books in progress at once, but I didn’t finish a lot, since I wasn’t really in the mood (in part because my attention got swallowed by playing the game Dispatch). Ah well! Here are the books I did finish and intend to review on the blog:

I’m not sure what I’ll be reading this weekend, to be honest. I have several books on the go, so I’d like to finish some of them! First target: probably As If By Magic, a collection of classic crime stories. But we’ll see how it goes.

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

It’s the weekend, and I at least am very ready for it!

Books acquired this week

My monthly British Library Crime Classic arrived! Not one of the authors I like best, but it should be fun anyway.

I’ve started on it already.

Posts from this week

Time for a bit of a roundup, especially since I’ve been posting extra reviews this week. I still have many more waiting to be posted, but hopefully with a couple extra per week, I won’t get a post backlog that’s too silly… As usual, here are all the links to the full reviews!

• SF novella: Boy, With Accidental Dinosaur, by Ian McDonald (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Historical romance: The Duke at Hazard, by KJ Charles (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Science: The Genetic Lottery, by Kathryn Paige Harden (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• History: Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Mystery: Mockingbird Court, by Juneau Black (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 7, by Dubu & Chugong (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy novella: Audition for the Fox, by Martin Cahill (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers, by Helen Lewis (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Classic: The Vampyre, by John William Polidori (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Mystery: I Could Murder Her, by E.C.R. Lorac (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

Other posts:

• Top Ten Books: Outside the Comfort Zone
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

It’s been a bit of a quieter week, reading-wise, with some pretty disappointing reads. Ah well, it happens! Here’s a peek as usual at the books I intend to review on the blog:

Over the weekend… I’ll probably work on finishing up with Christianna Brand’s Death in High Heels, which I have in progress, and I hope to get chance to read more of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation too. Other than that, I’m not sure; I randomly started on Andrew Ziminski’s Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles last night, and might focus on that.

In the end, though, it’s all down to whatever whim strikes me!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

Happy weekend!

Books acquired this week

N/a! I’m working on reading some of the books I’ve got this year and haven’t started yet, and some backlog books, so I can meet my reading targets. If there’s something really tempting I’ll get it, there’s no book ban or anything, but I’m pretty happy with my current lineup.

Posts from this week

And now for the usual roundup! I haven’t started posting extra reviews yet, but I should pick a couple of days a week to do so, or figure out how to bundle some together, because the backlog of reviews to post is getting a liiiiittle bit out of hand. They’re all written, I just don’t want to spam y’all.

Anyway, here are the reviews I did post!

• Non-fiction: History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts, by Robert Bartlett (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Classic crime short stories: Continental Crimes, ed. Martin Edwards (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Poetry: The Cinder Path, by Andrew Motion (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Horror: The Forgotten Dead, by Jordan L. Hawk (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance manga: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, vol 5, by Kazuki Irodori (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And the non-review posts:

• My Year in Non-fiction
• Top Ten Tuesday: Random Books From My Shelves
• What are you reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

My reading’s been a bit calmer this week, ahaha, but there’s still plenty! Here’s the usual sneak peek of books I plan to review on the blog soon:

As for this weekend’s plans… the final volume of The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish, probably. I keep saying that, but I do really want to get to it! Other than that, who knows?

[ETA: I just want to be clear, posting that I’ve read The Genetic Lottery does not constitute a recommendation. I would rate it 1/5, “didn’t like it”. I posted my review earlier than intended if you want to check that out!]

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

The weekend again already?! The time is flying by.

Books acquired this week

This was going to be another week of nothing, but then at the last moment I realised I was auto-approved on Netgalley for this, and couldn’t resist…

I’ve been awaiting this one for a long time, so very excited for it!

Posts from this week

Let’s start with the usual review roundup:

• Alt-history crime: Pagans, by James Alistair Henry (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Bitch: A revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal, by Lucy Cooke (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Poetry: Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems, by Simon Armitage (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Romance manga: The Troublesome Guest of Sotomura Detective Agency, by Kusama Sakae (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Fantasy novella: The Rider, the Ride, the Rich Man’s Wife, by Premee Mohamed (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Historical romance: You Should Be So Lucky, by Cat Sebastian (5/5 stars, “loved it”)

And a What Are You Reading Wednesday post, as usual.

What I’m reading

It’s been a busy, busy week for reading, as I worked on finishing up with Book Spin Bingo and Comics Bingo. So let’s see — here’s the sneak peek of books I’ve finished this week and plan to review soon!

I’m going to need to start posting more than one review a day to keep up, at this rate!

Over this weekend, I’m not sure what I’ll read, because I’ve only just drafted my November reading list, and there’s so much choice! But chances are high that I’ll make a start on vol 4 of The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish (last volume, sob sob sob), and maybe read some more of the Tied to You manhwa.

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

Here we are again, huh?

Books acquired this week

N/a! Not even a library trip.

Posts from this week

As usual, here’s a roundup of the stuff I’ve posted this week:

• Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 6, by Dubu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy novella: A Magical Girl Retires, by Park Seolyeon (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Crime short stories: Blood on the Tracks, ed. Martin Edwards (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: The Hero, by Lee Child (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: Valkyrie, by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Graphic novel: Fence: Redemption, by C.S. Pacat & Johanna the Mad (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)

And of course a What Are You Reading Wednesday post.

What I’m reading

It’s been a fairly busy week reading-wise, though mostly with graphic novels. Let’s take a look at the books I’ve finished which I plan to review on here…

As for what I’m reading this weekend… I reaaaally have to focus on any books left on my Book Spin Bingo card for October, if I want to get a blackout! My first focus is probably volume three of The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish, and then Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent. But, as ever, we’ll see what happens!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

Hurrah, it’s the weekend!

Books acquired this week

Last weekend was Bookshop Day in the UK, so I made sure to acquire some books — it’s my duty, right?! I didn’t go nuts: I acquired physical copies of the Shady Hollow series (which I had in ebook before, not pictured) and the rest of this series, The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish:

I’ve already read book two, and I’m probably going to steam straight ahead and read the next volumes!

Posts from this week

First up, the reviews:

• Non-fiction: The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: The Story of Britain Through Its Census, since 1801, by Roger Hutchinson (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy romance manga: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, by Kazuki Irodori (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy romance: Paladin’s Strength, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Classic mystery: Deadly Earnest, by Joan Cockin (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Classic: The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesteron (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Non-fiction: Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History, by Moudhy Al-Rashid (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

Other posts:

• Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’d Want to Read for the First Time Again
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

It’s been a bit of a quieter week for me reading-wise, especially since I was off sick on Wednesday/Thursday. Still, I have done some reading!

As for what I’m reading this weekend… probably more of The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish, for a start! But I’d also like to get back to KJ Charles’ All of Us Murderers. We’ll see, though!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

It’s been a quiet week around here, though I’ve definitely been reading!

Books acquired this week

N/a! A few books I’m interested in are releasing in the coming week, though, so maybe I’ll have more to show next week.

Posts from this week

Mostly just reviews this week, so let’s do a quick roundup!

• Fantasy manhwa: Solo Leveling, vol 5, by Dubu (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Fantasy: The Wonder Engine, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them, by John S. Tregoning (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Non-fiction: Queer as Folklore, by Sacha Coward (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Comic: Mooncop, by Tom Gauld (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Fantasy: The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, by Caitlin Rozakis (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Romance: The Love Hypothesis, by Ali Hazelwood (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

And also the usual What Are You Reading Wednesday post.

What I’m reading

First, as always, a quick sneak peek at the books I’ve read this week that I plan to review on the blog!

I did also do a couple of rereads, like the fourth volume of The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, which I don’t plan to review again, so it’s been a busy week!

I’m not sure what I’ll focus on over the weekend. I’ve dug into rereading Jordan L. Hawk’s Outfoxing the Paranormal series, so I might get up to reading the newest of the series. I’ve also started on a real chonker, The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club, which is long slow reading, and I’ll probably read a chapter or two of that.

But as ever, it’ll be whatever I feel like, in the end!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

Happy weekend! It’s been a nice short week for me, and I’m still glad to see the weekend. Hope everyone has fun plans — even if “fun plans” means hiding away in a cosy corner with a book, of course.

Books acquired this week

I’m trying not to buy too many books, but a couple of impulse buys here and there can’t hurt when I plan to read them right away, right?

Posts from this week

• Bookish comics: I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf, by Grant Snider (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Fantasy: Clockwork Boys, by T. Kingfisher (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: Eat the World, by Marina Diamandis (1/5 stars, “didn’t like it”)
• Fantasy: Reignclowd Palace, by Philippa Rice (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, by Emma Chapman (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Crime: Nine Times Nine, by Anthony Boucher (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, by Wendy A. Woloson (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

And the other posts:

• Top Ten Tuesday: Fall TBR
• What Are You Reading Wednesday

What I’m reading

It’s still been a good week for reading, though a lot of these are quite short! Here’s a peek at the books I’ve finished and intend to review on the blog:

I’m planning to play a lot of Final Fantasy XIV this weekend, as I want to work on my weapon relic, so that’s going to be fun! But I do want to finish off the books I need to finish to get a blackout on Book Spin Bingo on Litsy, which means I’ll be doing plenty of reading too, as the end of the month approaches. My first focus is You Should Be So Lucky, by Cat Sebastian, which I’m loving, but… I have quite a bit of reading to do!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.