Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
24 January 2021
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Booking Ahead, Caffeinated Reviewer, Kimberly, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up
I’m trying to get back into the habit of doing a round-up of the week just completed and also take a look at my plans for the forthcoming week. I rather got out of the habit of doing this last year but I would like to reinstate this type of post as I feel it keeps me on track. So, I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s Caffeinated Reviewer. Without further ado:
Last week
I completed and reviewed The Mask of Mirrors. I also started and finished The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell (review to be posted this forthcoming week). I’m also 50% into Juliet Marillier’s Daughter of the Forest which I’m buddy reading with Mayri over at the Bookforager. I’m also listening/reading to We Lie With Death by Devin Madson.
Next Week
I’m hoping to complete We Lie With Death and start listening to the audio version of Paternus: War of Gods by Dyrk Ashton. I will also be reading my SPFBO book Nether Light by Shaun Paul Stevens. Ambitious? Perhaps a little bit – let’s see how I get on. Something about the best laid plans.
Reviews Posted since last Sunday:
- Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick
- Pawn’s Gambit by Rob J Hayes
Forthcoming Reviews:
- The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell
- Ink and Sigil by Kevin Hearne
- Shiver by Allie Reynolds
What’ve you been up to the past week?
Books and travelling with Lynn 
i hope you have a great reading week!
(www.evelynreads.com)
Thanks Evelyn, I hope you do too.
Lynn 😀
Looks like you’ve got some epic fantasies planned for this week. I can’t wait to read your review of The Shape of Darkness 😁
Yes, I think maybe this is a bit ambitious!
Lynn 😀
You had a great week. I love Hearne and enjoyed the audio of Ink & Bone. Have a great week.
Hope you have a great week too 😀
Lynn
I hope you are able to get back into doing these posts as you would like, Lynn. It helps me give my reading and blogging a bit more structure. 🙂 This week I finished reading the cosy crime caper, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and now I have just started a re-read of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. Happy reading! 😃
Hope you love your reread of Ivanhoe.
Lynn 😀
Thank you, Lynn 😊
I’m very much looking forward to reading your review of The Shape of Darkness, as this was one I abandoned because I found it a bit too dark. Though I thought the writing excellent. And I’m also keen to read your opinion of Ink & Sigil – I loved it, though Himself can’t get on with it. I hope the coming week is a peaceful, healthy one, Lynn:)
I really enjoyed Ink and Sigil – and would definitely like to read more.The Shape of Darkness really was Dark, I started off with slightly mixed feelings and didn’t think this one was going to be for me but then I simply became hooked.
Lynn 😀
So glad you enjoyed The Shape of Darkness! I had a hunch that it was more about me than the book:)). And I’m delighted you, too, like Ink and Sigil – I’m keeping my eye for the next book in this series.
I cannot wait to see what you thought of Purcell’s new book! And also We Lie In Death, I’m hoping to fit that one in next month.
I ended up loving the Purcell book, it’s her usual darkness. I got off to a slow start and thought this might be the book to break me and then all of a sudden I was hooked and fascinated where the story was taking me.
Lynn 😀
I started Daughter of Forst once but never finished it, I think? Got sidetracked, nothing wrong with the book. I hope your buddy read goes well! A lot of people love Marillier.
Marillier is awesome <3. Perhaps you can try Wolfskin as another starting work for Marillier's? You might like that one more.
Thanks – I’ll go take a look at that 😀
Yeah, I must confess that part of the book has really shocked me a little. But I need to press on and see how I feel about that particular event in the light of the complete book.
Lynn 😀
I’d seen Paternus in a lot of best-of-2020 reads. Seems to have some great mythology built-in on science fiction. That’s usually catnip for me… except that it’s a trilogy, and I’m not doing so well with books that aren’t standalones. 😦
I hope the audiobook turns out to be great — and if you recommend it, that’s the version I’ll start off with too.~
I’ve not started it yet but I’ll let you know 😀
This is a lot of reading, I think you can do it though! I’ll be curious to see what you think of Daughter of the Forest since Marillier is a favorite of mine. Have a fantastic week, Lynn!
Just over half way through Daughter of the Forest. Hoping to finish it just by the end of the month.
Otherwise these plans are probably a little bit ambitious – but, no harm in trying.
Lynn 😀