Books for the TBR Pile... 'Glad to see the back of this week!' Edition

An old landlady of mine used to say that she could tell how bad a week I'd had by the number of Amazon packages that would arrive, addressed to me. I wonder what she'd make of all the books that came home with me over the past week and a bit... This week hasn't been all bad to be fair (me and my eldest daughter are working our way through 'The Walking Dead' on Prime, that is always cool), but it has been pretty grim in places and I'm glad it's done. Just in time to tackle next week head on ;o)
Enough of that though, lets take a look at those books...


From the top...

It has been years since I read the 'Sword of Shadows' series, long enough that all my old copies are long gone now. With the end of the series (finally) rumoured to be in sight, I thought I'd have another crack at reading the books and that's why 'A Cavern of Black Ice' is sat at the top of the pile.

'The Tripods Trilogy' was an impulse buy from 'Any Amount of Books' on the Charing Cross Road. I did have copies of the 'Tripods' books, originally, but they seem to have disappeared (I suspect around the time of my last move) so this edition came along at the right time. Plus, it's the same edition as the books that I used to have when I was a kid so there's extra nostalgia to be had here :o)

I feel like I haven't read enough of John Scalzi's books and 'The Kaiju Preservation Society' looked like it was a standalone piece so that was an easy purchase from Forbidden Planet. And I was interested to see what 'George Romero without zombies' was like so 'Pay the Piper' came home with me after a brief stop at the Greenwich Waterstones.
And 'Blood Fugue'? I like a good vampire book and 'Blood Fugue' looked like it could be a good vampire book so I had that too :o) Anyone here read anything by Joseph D'Lacey?

And you would have thought that was that, wouldn't you...? You'd be wrong...


I'm not huge on Urban Fantasy these days but I remember the 'Ashley Parker' books being fun back in the day and they feature zombies so I didn't need too much persuading when I saw 'Plague Nation' and 'Plague World' on sale for 99p each in Forbidden Planet. I mean, you can't go wrong for 99p a book, can you? It was the work of five minutes to finish the series with 'Plague Town' (which is actually the first book) via eBay.

And that really is your lot for this week :o) Now I just need to read some of these books and maybe, find another (cheaper) way to cheer myself up after a crappy week. How do you guys do it?

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  1. Bookstooge9 March 2025 at 12:27

    Long term? I read my Bible more and make sure I go to church. Being alone, even if what we feel we crave, is usually what makes things worse.

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