Volume two of Dan Abnett’s Immortal Red Sonja wraps up on the story of the cursed mail shirt, supposedly containing the spirit of King Arthur. I find it a bit disorientating […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
I knew of Nina Bawden because I read Carrie’s War in university — I think for the children’s literature class I took? I hadn’t expected to see a book by her from […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Happy weekend! I must admit, I’m looking forward to it: despite having a day off for my birthday, it’s been a weird and tiring week, in part because I got […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Christopher Dell’s Monsters was a bit of a random choice from the library while I happened to be in that area of the library for something else. It’s a pretty fun […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Beneath Our Feet is by Michael Lewis and Ian Richardson, but it covers the finds of many ordinary people — not archaeologists, but metal detectorists, fieldwalkers, mudlarks, and people who […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Noah Whiteman’s Most Delicious Poison: From Spices to Vices – the Story of Nature’s Toxins is primarily focused on the issue of addiction, and includes discussion of his father’s alcoholism and […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
What have you recently finished reading? Devi Sridhar’s Preventable, a book about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic completed/published in 2022, which makes it off-base on a number of things (e.g. basically commenting that […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
In the end, Courtney Smyth’s The Undetectables didn’t really prove to be my thing. I loved the tagline (“be gay, solve crimes, take naps”), and I loved the fact that Mallory […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
This week’s theme from Top Ten Tuesday is all about the big chonky books. I don’t have stats on all my books, since I left Goodreads in a huff some years […]| 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
