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Got a nice sticker with my package of Hwaet zines, so stuck it in today’s page in my Hobonichi.

Folk by Zoe Gilbert will be my next fiction read. I need something fantastical, whimsical and magical after a very difficult book club read that I should honestly have DNF’d.

A little shuffling around, with some fiction out (finally finished Wheel of Time book 4), some in, and a shake up among the non fiction too.

Here are my 6 main books currently on the go.

Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Djinni for the book club of a BookTuber I follow. This is a turn of the century fantasy set in New York. Enjoyable, though it’s arguably overlong, and could have been better tightened up.

Newly started Christopher de Hamel’s Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, which I’ve been keen to read for ages, no wonder as a book historian. But waited until I nabbed it at a bargain price for the Kindle. The print copy may be better for readers generally in this case, but for me the large font available on my Kindle is essential. I’m not sure yet how well I’ll get on with the illustrations there, and may switch at times to the Kindle app on my iPad.

Still reading David Long’s Lost Britain which is full of lots of short vignettes. Some I’m not interested in, so am skipping those. But most appeal and are being read.

Newly reading Vince Stadon’s Hounded! about life as a Hound of the Baskervilles obsessive. I can relate to that on a lower level of Sherlockian fandom.

Well into Zoe Gilbert’s Mischief Acts, a series of glimpses of Herne the Hunter through time, some narrative, some poems. A very different read, but an enjoyable mix of folklore and history.

And finally still reading Brian Kernighan’s Hello, World! which is a lovely mix of columns about academia, computer science and just stuff. I’m amused when he keeps writing about being a fan of low tech.