It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Weekly feature hosted at The Book Date to get the book blogging community planning their reads for the upcoming week, sharing their current reads and thoughts on them, and generally adding to our ever taller TBR ("To Be Read") piles!

AUDIOBOOKS

I finished Pendragon by James Wilde last week! Big thoughts to come on that one, the review is on the way.

And for something completely different I've started listening to The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie. I can't walk past a Singer in a charity shop without sighing longingly, remembering the many sewing machines I've known (Gran's, Mum's, Auntie Sheila's) and had to curb my temper whilst trying to thread. My own little white sewing beastie, as a super chill grown up lady, is auto-thread. I think that probably says a lot about my temper controlling priorities.

LIBRARY BOOKS

I had a wander through my wishlists and compared what was on them to what's available through my local library. A few clicks through the online catalogue later and I'd placed some titles on hold that I'd wanted to check out (hah!) for a while. So far I've brought home:

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman - NEIL GAIMAN! NORSE MYTHOLOGY! My dreams made flesh?! Uh... my dreams made paperback, at the very least!

The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland - The blurb promises a librarian's apprentice who doesn't seem able to differentiate between knowledge, power, and sensibleness.

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar - I think I might be the first person to get this out! Powys Library Service, ta very much for getting this title into your catalogue so quickly! Anyway, the year is 1785, there are mentions of sea captains, mermaids, courtesans, and... well, that was enough to pique my interest, actually!

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge - Scandal, the pursuit of justice, revenge, and a super mysterious sounding tree. Yes, you've got me potentially supernatural botany. You've got me.