I’ve continued to show a little more restraint this past month. Though I’ll be showing more books than June, I only actually bought one new physical book. While I once again wonder if I’m forgetting something, one of these is actually a book I forgot to mention last month too. So, perhaps not for the first time, I actually did forget a book.
Enough carrying on, let’s have a look at these books.Read More »
Watership Down is a 1972 children’s novel by Richard Adams. The story follows two rabbit brothers, Hazel and Fiver, who live a seemingly peaceful life in Sandleford Warren, the only home they’ve ever known. One day, Fiver receives visions of death and destruction, convincing him that a great, unknown evil is coming to destroy their home. Although their chief rabbit does not listen, Hazel and Fiver, along with a handful of other rabbits who heed their warning, decide to venture off into the world beyond the boundaries of their warren. Fraught with dangers—both from predators and the elements, as well as the customs of strange rabbits in other warrens—Hazel and company endeavour to find a safe place to found a new warren of their own.Read More »
All things considered, June was yet another month where I was fairly well behaved with respect to buying books. I gave into an impulse or two, but I also put some things back and decided to abstain. It really is getting to me how little space I have for new books, which really is a pickle when you love buying them.
Anyway, let’s see what I did get.Read More »
May was nearly a historic month for these monthly posts; since I started them in 2018, I’ve always had at least a new book or two to share every month. May 2024 was very nearly the first month in all of this time where I didn’t get any new books whatsoever. I was almost excited about it, in a weird way. Money being a little tighter due to car trouble has been the main reason, but it hadn’t happened before either, so it was remarkable in its way.
Enough dawdling, let’s see what managed to sneak in.Read More »
Death in Her Hands is a 2020 mystery novel by Ottessa Moshfegh. Vesta Gul is an elderly widow who lives alone in a cabin in the woods in a small town, alongside her beloved dog Charlie. One day, while walking Charlie along the nearby trails, she finds a note on the ground, held there by carefully placed stones. The note reads “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body.” Though there is no dead body to speak of and seemingly not a single other soul for miles around, Vesta is disturbed by what she has found and makes it a personal mission to unravel this mystery.Read More »
I may have gotten a little carried away this month. It was something of a perfect storm of circumstances that allowed me to get a lot of books for rather cheap.
Let’s see just how much I went overboard. Still, I could swear I’m forgetting one or two, can you believe it?Read More »
Now March was truly surprising in how low-key of a month it was. No preorders, no big impulse purchases, and no substantial trips to any thrift stores. As usual, I wonder if I’ve forgotten something, but I’m fairly confident the thing I did get is all I have to show for the past month. It’s probably for the best; some personal expenses have come up, so I should be a little less spend-happy anyway.
Let’s check out what I did pick up.Read More »
Annihilation is a 2014 science fiction horror novel by Jeff VanderMeer and the first novel in the Southern Reach trilogy. Area X, a once lightly populated region, has been under quarantine for decades for unknown reasons, long since reclaimed by nature. There have been 11 expeditions into the region, most of them meeting bizarre and violent ends. The last expedition had all of its members return home under mysterious circumstances, mere husks of their former selves, before all succumbing to aggressive cancer. Now, the 12th expedition is underway, made up of four women including our narrator, the biologist, whose husband was part of the 11th expedition. They struggle to comprehend the phenomena they uncover in this hostile yet strangely captivating environment, the trust between them slowly eroding.Read More »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme run by That Artsy Reader Girl. I always love putting together a seasonal TBR list, even though I rarely complete it and a lot of books end up being repeats in the line-up. I just like to get a decent idea of what I might want to read in the near future. With that in mind, half of this list includes books that are neither novels nor nonfiction prose. With no plans to complete/read through any comic book series this year, there are some books I want to make sure I finally crack open and read.Read More »
It seems I allowed myself to get a little carried away last month, as I’m surprised by how many books I ended up picking up, and I have a nagging suspicion that I’m forgetting one or two (as usual). I can’t just blame thrift shopping this time either, as I’ve picked up more than one brand new book rather impulsively.
Let’s check out these books.Read More »
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