Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Oof, it’s way too hot here once again! And humid, at least here in my office, despite having had the portable air conditioner on dehumidifier mode for most of the last 24 hours. Still, I’m surviving and very lucky to have the air conditioner option! Books acquired this week Last week I forgot to feature a library book, so sneaking that into this week’s post: Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is one I’ve been meaning to try for a while, though I thiiiink I have read a different mystery by the same author and didn’t love it? That said, I wasn’t reading a lot of mysteries in translation at that time, and I think I have my eye in a bit better now, so I’m hoping I’ll enjoy it more. Reading in translation can sometimes be easier like that, when you have a degree of context. Meanwhile, over at the National Poetry Library they set up a collection of Welsh collections; you can only take out two at a time, and I still had one other collection I haven’t got round to, but I’m looking forward to more…