This Week in Books | 18/11/15

This week I'm joining in with Lipsy @ Lipsyy Lost & Found to talk about the books I've been reading recently!

NOW: Last night I decided to pick up The Falconer to see if I was in the mood to read it, and ended up reading the first hundred pages in an hour. It's not the best thing I've ever read, and I do fear there may be a dreaded love triangle, but it's a lot of fun! I haven't really read any books featuring fae and it's been a long time since I read a book set in Scotland, so I'm planning to finish this one soon. I'm also currently reading Eileen Pollack's memoir The Only Woman in the Room, and I'm enjoying it so far.

THEN: I finished, and really enjoyed, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked at the weekend; it was very interesting to see how the story of Little Red Riding Hood has changed over the centuries, and how it's been used as both a moral tale and for advertising. I recommend it, especially to any fairy tale fans!

NEXT: The main reason I picked up The Falconer is because I received an eARC of the second book in the trilogy, The Vanishing Throne, from NetGalley. The Vanishing Throne is actually released tomorrow, but November slipped away from me before I could try and read it in advance. I'm hoping to finish The Falconer very soon, though, and then I'll jump straight into this one and review them both! Also you should all check out Elizabeth May's Twitter account. It's brilliant.

This Week in Books | 11/11/15

This week I'm joining in with Lipsy @ Lipsyy Lost & Found to talk about the books I've been reading recently!

Now: My copy of Winter arrived early and I'm so excited! I preordered my copy of Winter from The Book Depository - I was having trouble finding the hardback edition anywhere else, and I like using TBD - but I wasn't expecting to get it on time; last year I preordered Cress through TBD and it was almost a week late, so you can imagine how pleased I was to receive an email that it had been dispatched a week before the release date, only for it to turn up two days later! It's been killing me that I haven't been able to just stay at home and read constantly, but I'm off work today so I'm determined to read it, even though finishing this series is going to break my heart.

Then: I started Demon Road last month, it was one of the books on my Halloween TBR, but I ended up having to set it aside so I could read Sugar Hall for a read-a-long with one of my colleagues. I finally picked it back up and finished it one sitting, and I enjoyed it! I didn't love it, but I liked it a lot - look out for my review later this week!

Next: After Winter, assuming I don't end up in a sobbing book hangover, I'd like to finish Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Mortality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale which I started, and was really enjoying, before Winter arrived. I've mentioned before that I've been really getting into non-fiction this year, and this is one of a few non-fiction titles I'd like to cross off my TBR before the end of the year.

What have you been reading recently?