What have you recently finished reading? Kacen Callender’s Felix Ever After, which… I think would’ve meant a lot to me 10-15 years ago. Though it would probably have also been more viscerally […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Sakae Kusama’s The Troublesome Guest of Sotomura Detective Agency is a one-shot manga which features a private investigator (Matsuda Kei) and a former classmate (Kamiko) who ends up running into […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
I remember liking some of Simon Armitage’s poems, so I was surprised that I didn’t really connect with or enjoy a single one in this collection! It’s deeply rooted in […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Lucy Cooke’s Bitch aims to re-examine things that are taken for biological truths (like the idea that eggs are more costly so female animals evolved to be choosy while sperm is […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
James Henry Alistair’s Pagans is set in an interesting world in which the Norman invasion of 1066 never happened, and Britain is divided into Norse, Saxon and indigenous British contingents which […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
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 […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
I had suspected that Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold wouldn’t be entirely my thing, so I wasn’t surprised to find that I didn’t love it. It made decent light […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
The sixth volume of C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad’s Fence is a self-contained arc in which they visit another fencing school to practice intensively, and several people have dates (but Aiden […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir’s Valkyrie attempts to give us a pretty comprehensive picture of the position of women in Norse society (I don’t say “Viking”, because “Vikings” are the ones who […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
What have you recently finished reading? I’ve been digging into more of the comics offering I can get via my library’s subscription to Comics Plus, so there’s been a lot of graphi…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
So much to love about the fifth volume of C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad’s Fence! Bobby is adorable, and I love that he gets to be the team manager, and I especially love the relationship bet…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
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What have you recently finished reading? I finished up with Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch last night! And yep, that Mr Collins, from Pride & Prejudice. It’s a retelling that fleshes out…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Volume 16 of Akane Tamura’s is the last one I hadn’t reviewed fully, and now I’m almost at the end of the series so far in my reread! Boo. It’s another really cute volume, e…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Happy weekend! I’ve had a pretty good week, and even managed to get out on my bicycle for the first time in a while, meaning I’m now signed up and ready to go at the library. For now, I didn’t get any physical books out, but I’m going to look through my wishlist and hope that the Library Extension I use for my browser will pick up something the new library has available…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Another review from the archives, which somehow never got posted here! Chloe Wynchester is convinced that she is plain and unremarkable: that is the skill that gets her into capers with her family,…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian