Reading still a bit slow this week though, having briefly set it aside because I really wanted to finish it but wasn’t quite in the right frame of mind, I galloped through the second half of Frances Hardinge’s Cuckoo Song which was very enjoyable in a dark and creepy sort of way 🙂
But this week, because I was only at work for two days and the rest of the time I was on a break, I have mainly been binge-watching TV on my iPad which has been very relaxing.
Challenges:
I still haven’t started my reading for Once Upon a Time IX but have at least selected the book I’m going to start with, so that’s progress of sorts, and I’m considering whether the Hardinge could be included in this challenge (given it’s about a changeling) as well as the horror reading challenge. I probably won’t decide until I actually sit down to write my review.
In progress:
I have pulled Child 44 from my TBR pile so that I can read it in advance of the film being released in the next few weeks, but good grief it’s grim and depressing and I’m only working through it very slowly indeed.
New Books
I’ve bought four or five books this week though it’s worth pointing out that two of them were pre-orders. I also managed to walk into a physical book shop and after some browsing walk out without buying anything. I had to lie down in a dark room afterwards to cope with the shock 😀
All back to normal this week, so hopefully more reading time.
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April 12, 2015 at 9:12 pm
Bryan G. Robinson
So whatchya binge-watching? 🙂
April 12, 2015 at 10:27 pm
brideofthebookgod
I am binge-watching S1 of The Blacklist because missed it when it was first shown over here and (obviously) James Spader, and a UK series called Critical, sort of ER but shinier and with superb melodramatic overacting. I’m hooked on both 😀
April 13, 2015 at 2:31 am
Anne
I went to and independent bookstore last week and they had a pledge they encouraged their patrons to follow “I pledge to buy at least one book from this shop for every time I order a set of books on-line.” Made sense to me, so I bought a book. My Sunday Salon
April 13, 2015 at 6:39 am
brideofthebookgod
Oh I like that, sounds like a good excuse to spend 🙂
April 13, 2015 at 11:34 pm
Jenny @ Reading the End
Cuckoo’s Song! I liked it too! It took me a little while to get into it — Frances Hardinge’s books tend to start slow! — but then I devoured the latter two-thirds and loved it.
April 13, 2015 at 11:47 pm
brideofthebookgod
Exactly that, Jenny. I have a couple of others kicking around which I’ll come to at some point, but glad I persevered with this one.