Weekly Roundup

This week I’ve finished one book, started one more, and read one story from The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. Read on to find out more!

This Week’s Posts:

Tuesday: Monthly Reading Retrospective (November)

Thursday: Book Review: Salute the Dark

This Week’s Reading:

This week I read in its entirety The Scarab Path by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the fifth book in the Shadows of the Apt series. It was a really enjoyable start to the second arc of the series, and broke the curse of the middling odd books.

I also started reading The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, a generation spanning interlocking narrative revolving around the lives of out of the ordinary people who live in (or end up living in) Zambia. Its not something I would typically read, and I have alternated between struggling with it and being entranced. I am curious to see some of the more sci-fi elements in the last generation of characters.

I did finish an SPFBO finalist earlier this week, and started on another one too.

The Slow Read Through The Big Book Of Modern Fantasy

In which I read and review at least one short story a week from The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.

The Sinister Apartment by Mikhail Bulgakov: This extract from The Master and Margarita about a potentially cursed apartment and the strange visitor who appears there failed to capture me. Perhaps it suffered from being an extract, but I found the interesting plot executd in a way I found difficult to follow. 2.5/5

Movie/TV Thoughts:

Nothing this week again – next week, hopefully actually Ghostbusters this time

Next Week’s Posts:

I really want to finish that The Outside review for next week. I also intend to get reviews out for The Scarab Path, and Spoils of War, so it’s possible those will make the cut instead.

Next Week’s TBR Shortlist (Not including SPFBO books):

This week I picked up two books from the top row of my TBR shortlist, The Scarab Path and The Old Drift.

Here’s a link to my last Weekly Roundup, if you wish to compare the two (although you’ll quickly find they are the same!). The book in the third row with a blank cover is an arc of The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart.

As usual, let me know if there’s anything there you’d recommend!