The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer. It's a chance to recap posts from the past week and tease upcoming content, as well as share new books, reading challenge progress, and anything else you've come across in the last seven days.
Thankfully my birthday week came and went as quietly as I hoped it would. A couple of friends were insistent on doing something, so we had a nice little lunch yesterday and caught up. Other than cake after dinner with my parents on the day of, this was pretty much a week like any other! A lot of rain is headed our way this coming week; thankfully it isn't expected until later today or tonight, because I'll be outdoors most of the day, but I adore grey, cloudy weather! However odd it may sound I'm always happier and more content on rainy days—plus it's the perfect backdrop for reading. While I hope the weather doesn't cause any serious problems in the city, I'm selfishly looking forward to a few April showers before the sun and heat of a Texas summer settle in for good.
READING CHALLENGES
Boy am I disappointed to say I didn't enjoy my first book of the week, Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young. I actually requested it directly from the publisher, who was kind enough to give me access to the NetGalley eARC, which sharpens the sting a little. I wish I could at least pick out a small positive to highlight, but this was a rare, total miss. My review won't run until after its late April release date, the early excitement has me very curious to see what other advance opinions are.
I had much better luck with the two books that followed it though! Taking a break from review copies, I continued the Southern Reach trilogy with Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. It moves the action from inside Area X to the government agency attempting to manage and decipher the strange region. Authority builds the same terrible, bone-chilling dread that made Annihilation such a success for me, while throwing in a hearty dose of gallows humor about bureaucratic ineptitude. While I need to stay on track with my reviews for now, I'm really looking forward to starting Acceptance soon.
Then...I finally got to read Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik! And it. was. AMAZING. I kept having to restrain myself from tweeting out quotes and otherwise losing my mind over a book that's still four months away from release. I only want to say two things: 1) Avoid summaries any more detailed that what comes on the dust jacket, because its best experienced going in blind, and 2) Whatever other hype you hear, believe it. Spinning Silver surpassed Uprooted for me, which I didn't expect and it didn't need to come close to doing for me love.
LAST WEEK ON THE BLOG
Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Down the TBR Hole #12
Between Daemons: Lions & Lambs
Book Review: The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
COMING UP ON THE BLOG
Book Review: My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Down the TBR Hole #13
State of the ARC #3
Blog Tour: Ace of Shades + Q&A with Amanda Foody
Book Review: The Balcony by Jane Delury
BOOK HAULS
AROUND THE BLOGOSPHERE
- Book Review: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows on Elgee Writes
- Books I Should Have Read Already on Book Dragons
- Book Review: People Like Us on Greg's Book Haven
- Top 5 Contemporary Fiction on Beware the Reader
- Fifteen #Diverse YA Contemporary books Written by Diverse Female Authors on my Spring TBR on Flipping Through the Pages
- Book Hangovers and Reading Slumps as a Blogger on Books, Vertigo, and Tea
- 5 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out This Spring on She's Going Book Crazy
- 5 Books That Got Me Into Reading YA on Aimee, Always
- What Goes Into Bookish Designs? on That Book Gal
- Book Review: The Silent Companions on Caffeinated Reviewer (guest post by Sophia Rose!)
- Book Review: The Zanna Function on Avalinah's Books
- Book Review: The Bone Witch on Northern Plunder
What's your favorite birthday tradition? Are you a lover of spring showers, or are you impatient for summer to arrive?
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