Books Acquired: None. Books Read: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee I’m in a bit of a reading slump right now, so I didn’t get through a lot this month. It’s fallen down in priority, but it’s temporary. That’s just how it goes sometimes. I did finally read The Last Unicorn, which I had been meaning to get to for quite some time now, so that was great. Anthony Bourdain’s comic was on the list for years too, so that’s another one crossed off. Movies watched: Sing Street (2016) –…

Books Acquired: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry The Lady In The Van by Alan Bennett Saga, Volume 7 by Brian K. Vaughan The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller Books Read: The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Authority by Jeff VanderMeer Saga, Volume 7 by Brian K. Vaughan A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman This was a nice, relaxing month. I probably shouldn’t have bought any books, considering the used book sale last month, but I have no regrets! The Essex Serpent is a novel that I have been hearing quite a bit about from UK bloggers and booktubers,…

Books Acquired: Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy’s Will; North of Boston by Robert Frost The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark Conversations by César Aira The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy A Good Year by Peter Mayle The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Shopgirl by Steve Martin Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared…

Books Acquired: Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow Books Read: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel The Human Factor by Graham Greene We have the used book sale this weekend (maybe I’ve mentioned that once or twice?), and this last month they had a book drive to collect donations. Lee-Ann and I happily got rid of two bags full of books. Some were books I didn’t enjoy, and therefore didn’t want to keep around, and others were books I had for a while and didn’t see myself reading anytime soon. The nice…

Books Acquired: None. Books Read: His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Room by Emma Donoghue Company Town by Madeline Ashby Not a single book bought or stolen or conjured up this month. My favourite used book sale is only about five weeks away now, so I’m saving myself for that. We have limited shelf space left here, and we usually both go a bit nuts at that sale. It’s been a fairly busy (but also lazy) month, and as a result I’ve fallen quite behind on these posts. I haven’t written about a single novel that I read in…

Books Acquired: Jesting Pilate by Aldous Huxley Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins Books Read: The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman I hadn’t heard of Jesting Pilate before, but it’s a travelogue from Aldous Huxley that details his trip through multiple countries, from India to America (I believe). Classic travel writing can be a lot of fun (travel before planes or hotel reviews, shock and horror), so I’m looking forward to this. Acceptance I picked up to complete the trilogy, although I still haven’t read the second book yet, so…

Books Acquired: Irredeemable, Vol. 3 by Mark Waid Irredeemable, Vol. 4 by Mark Waid Ayoade on Ayoade by Richard Ayoade The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman Books Read: Morning Star by Pierce Brown Fool’s Quest by Robin Hobb Kaijumax, Season 1 by Zander Cannon The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark It’s been a decent start to the year. A bit of a rough beginning, as I got ill immediately upon returning from holiday and spent a chunk of New Years Day in emergency, but it all turned out all right. The rest of the month was relaxed. Reading, hanging out, and taking some photos. Last month I…

Well, that year turned out a bit differently than we all thought, didn’t it? Oh well, I guess now that we’ve rolled over to a new arbitrary calendar year EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE. Donald Trump will definitely not start a war over Twitter and all of our favourite celebrities will stop dying. I can’t wait! The Weblog Nearly six years I’ve been keeping this weblog now, and I’m still enjoying it. I love being able to look back on what I’ve read, and I feel like taking an hour or two to write about a book really helps me get more out of my reading. If you had told fifteen-year-old…

Books Acquired: Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi My Dad Wrote a Porno by Jamie Morton, Alice Levine, James Cooper, Rocky Flintstone Books Read: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan Born a Crime by Trevor Noah The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way by Matt Fraction Hope everyone had a great holiday to end 2016! Lee-Ann and I took a last minute trip to Maui over Christmas this year. This was my first warm Christmas, and I could definitely get used to it. We came…

Books Acquired: None. Books Read: Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky Heat by Bill Buford Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov Ballistics: Poems by Billy Collins French Milk by Lucy Knisley With the move at the end of last month finished, November in comparison was very low-key. It was actually quite nice. December is beginning to sound pretty full, so this was a good way to lead up to it. We stumbled across a few used turntables in a strange little out-of-town cafe and ended up buying one on the spot, Lee-Ann’s early Christmas gift to me. It’s a Technics SL-23 from the 70s, and it’s in great shape. These…