Someone over elsewhere used to do a neat thing with posting a picture of the books they read each week (or maybe each month?). I'm a day late with this, these are the books from 1st-8th Jan, but I think it's neat to share.
Doesn't include the two ebooks I read: Office (Sheila Liming) and Murder at the Theatre Royale (Ada Moncrieff). Of the omnibus, I've only read the second book this week, but I only have it in omnibus format.
Books for 23rd-29th! I also read a bunch of ebooks -- Megan Derr's How Not To Marry A Prince, Arden Powell's The Solstice Cabin, Andrew Wheeler's Love and War.
Favourite... A Master of Djinn. So good the way it pulls together the threads from the novellas.
Books for 30th Jan - 5th Feb! I also read some comics digitally (Liebestrasse, Black Ghost Vol 1, Astonishing Times Vol 1, Crema) plus the novella How To Get A Girlfriend When You're A Terrifying Monster (Marie Cardno).
Provenance and Winter's Orbit were rereads. Favourite this week... probably Death on the Down Beat, I found the format fascinating and the musical problem was something a bit different. Really enjoyed Murder: The Biography, too.
Recent reading: these (just the last book in the omnibus, though), plus a couple more comics in digital form (Virtually Yours by Jeremy Holt, and an ableist one that was really disappointing and I won't share).
Favourite, probably the E.C.R. Lorac. I really like her books, but this one really pinged me somehow. Hexmaker was very fun too.
Aaand before bed, recent reading! I also read a couple of graphic novels but nothing super memorable (40 Seconds and two volumes of Kim Reaper; I think that was it).
The Mysterious Mr Badman was my favourite of these. The British Library Crime Classics usually hit the spot for me -- except John Dickson Carr and the creepy Sergeant Cliff books.
Oof, I forgot to add that I finished reading Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project. Clever and fascinating but icky too. Paired quite well with having read Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan a couple weeks ago; the discussion of a plea of insanity added a lot.
Quick update for #MyWeekInBooks project of mine -- a super bad week mental health wise and didn't do a ton of reading overall. I think I read one digital comic (Lost on Planet Earth) in addition to these physical books. I finished both Crook O' Lune and Dead in the Water today, so hopefully that's a sign I'm feeling more like reading again.
Legends & Lattes was a huge highlight for me, and E.C.R. Lorac is always good. Dunn was a reread in hopes of one day finishing the series.
I didn't post last week because my head exploded with stress, but I'd only read a bunch of volumes of Giant Days anyway, all digital so nothing to take a pic of. This week I've kinda got back to it, so pic incoming soon! #MyWeekInBooks
And here's this week's update! Voyage of the Basilisk is a reread and a favourite. Rattling Bone is the second in a series and I inhaled it.
Green for Danger was a tricky one. More emotional and psychologically sensitive than many of the British Library Crime Classics, and kind of difficult to read when I was feeling fragile, as a result.
Relatively quiet week for reading, but now I have holiday for a week so maybe there'll be more in the next post. Rattle His Bones was a reread; The Museum of the Wood Age... was not for me, despite sounding right up my street.
I used my holiday well and have been reading a lot. Quite a few rereads, as I've been seeking out stuff that's comfortable.
Favourite of the stack (other than the rereads) was Blurb Your Enthusiasm. It's not surprising in any way about how copy is written and the tricks of the trade, but it was beautifully written and a joy to read.
This week's reading! Also several books I haven't finished. I've been spending a lot of time gaming instead of reading, but such are the cycles of my attention.
Twice Round the Clock was pretty melodramatic, but in many ways very much what I expect when I pick up a British Library Crime Classic, and therefore rather comfortable. I enjoyed it!
It was a slow reading week for me until the weekend, when my new Onyx Boox Leaf2 ereader arrived and reminded me that oh, hey, I really like reading. 😅 I've read two ebooks as well as these three pbooks: Under the Smokestrewn Sky (A. Deborah Baker/Seanan McGuire) and A Season of Monstrous Conceptions (Lina Rather). My favourite... Hmm, probably the McGuire: it was nice to finish the quartet, and I'm glad I got an ARC.
Couldn't resist sneaking my ereader into this pic, since I read a few books on that. That was Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates, T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge, Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager and Christopher Rowe's The Navigating Fox.
Favourite book this week... hmm, maybe Mammoths at the Gates? I love that series.
This week feels slow, but only if I forget that I read ebooks too. So my ereader in its lovely case appears again. Other than the pictured books, I read Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky, Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald's Knight's Wyrd, and Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott.
Favourite that wasn't a reread, definitely Untethered Sky, though Knight's Wyrd is close behind.
Lots of reading again this week, yay! A lot of it on my ereader:
How to Be A Great Boss (Gino Wickman & René Boer)
Dare to Lead (Brené Brown)
The First-Time Manager (Jim McCormick)
Jurassic Dark (Si Clarke)
The Lies of the Ajungo (Moses Ose Utomi)
The Salt Grows Heavy (Cassandra Khaw)
Plus the three books pictured (my ereader snuck into the image as usual). Favourite new-to-me book this week, definitely The Salt Grows Heavy. Gory, but oddly tender.
Another productive reading week without much to show in terms of a physical stack, so my ereader (in its Infinite Library case) sneaks in again. The ebooks:
And Put Away Childish Things (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
The Scourge of Stars (Ness Brown)
Pulling the Wings Off Angels (K.J. Parker)
Bookshops & Bonedust (Travis Baldree)
The Mimicking of Known Successes (Malka Older)
a boring book on management that I've already forgotten
I expected not to read much this week because of my exams, and it did start slow, but in the end I used my extra free time to good effect. Other than the pictured books, I read five volumes of A Side Character's Love Story by Akane Tamura.
Favourite read... hmm. The KJ Charles, perhaps, but I really enjoyed Hidden Heritage as well.
This week, I've read the pictured books plus, in ebook form:
A Side Character's Love Story vols 14-15 (Akane Tamura)
Remote Control (Nnedi Okorafor)
Peter Darling (Austin Chant)
The Bookshop & the Barbarian (Morgan Stang)
A Glimmer of Silver (Juliet Kemp)
Favourite was definitely The Good Virus; it's the best kind of popular science, I loved it so much. Of course I loved my Murderbot reread, too, but The Good Virus is great.
This week was exclusively pbook reading, for whatever reason. So it's a nice lil' stack.
I liked my #Nimona reread, of course, amazing how much I'd forgotten of it. It's hard to pick a favourite this week, though -- nothing stands out as "yes, THIS".