I’m a little torn on how to rate Wendy A. Woloson’s Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America. It’s very thorough, and well-sourced, with 50 pages of numbered end […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
I probably made a mistake in the timing of reading Anthony Boucher’s Nine Times Nine, as I read Rocket to the Morgue earlier this year during a rough time, and… coincidentally, ended up […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
It turns out that I am still not great with astrophysics. Emma Chapman is enthusiastic and keen and tries to enthuse the reader, but my eyes just started to glaze […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
What have you recently finished reading? A couple of manga I picked up rather at random, both by Guri Nojiro: In Love’s Key, Reprised and A Beast’s Love is Like the Moon. […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
I picked up Philippa Rice’s Reignclowd Palace on an absolute whim — more accurately, I spotted it in a bookshop, was curious about the colourful cover, and ended up putting […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
It’s definitely beginning to feel autumnal here, with the temperatures falling and some very rainy days. I’m all for it — I love rain, especially listening to it against the […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
When I saw that Marina Diamandis (better known as the singer MARINA or Marina & the Diamonds) had put out a book of poetry, I was… uncertain. I do like […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
T. Kingfisher’s Clockwork Boys has been issued in a new UK print edition, which finally spurred me to get round to reading it — and now I’m glad that I have […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Grant Snider’s I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf is a fun bookish set of comics, though I wouldn’t recommend it as one to sit down and read in one go, […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Welp, I’m back home! And taking a couple of days off to turn this into a long weekend and get some chill time, because oooof. Books acquired this week This week featured a quick library trip …| 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
I loved Sally Smith’s first Gabriel Ward book, so I was very eager to dig into A Case of Life and Limb. I enjoyed it just as much, though the wintery vibes are a bit at odds with the weather,…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
The second volume of Kazuki Irodori’s adaptation of The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter into manga form is fun! It mostly focuses on Aresh’s attempts to get Seiichi…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
This week’s theme from Top Ten Tuesday is “Books with honorifics in the title”, which I’m really not sure I can actually get a total of ten for. I guess this might be pretty…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
I really enjoyed Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’ The Cleopatras, which discusses and follows not just “the” Cleopatra, Cleopatra VII, but the whole female line of the Ptolemy dynasty, fill…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Moving continues! As of last night we were done with the old flat, but there are many boxes, much new furniture, and many flatpacks in our future. I’m still at my parents’ house for now…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
I’ve been reading the manga adaptation of The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, so now I’ve turned to the original light novel, by Yatsuki Wakutsu. Like most light n…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Marie Brennan’s A Breviary of Fire is a collection of short stories — some shorter than others — that fit broadly into the traditions of several different world-regions, each bein…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
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How’s it been another week already? It started off quite gruelling, as my first exam was a doozy, but hopefully I’m managing to rest and recharge before the final two on Monday and Tues…| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian