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.
I want to keep doing this, so for 9th-15th Jan, here's what I read!
In addition to these, there was one ebook, the graphic novel adaptation of The Secret Garden.
Favourite... Blind Tiger.
And 16th-22nd Jan, ignoring the possibility I might finish another book tonight, here's what I read.
In addition to these, there were two ebooks: the very short "The 13th Hex" by Jordan L. Hawk, and Jennifer Howard's Clutter: An Untidy History.
Favourite, hm, the reread of The Tropic of Serpents. Never misses for me.
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.
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