Reading Roundup: February 2026
I lived through February and I did read some stuff.
The Rat Catcher: A Love Story by Kim Kelly
🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀 5/5 Rats - Charming and uplifting with a fascinating historical setting and a sweet little love story.
Digest 20260301: Has AI actually helped me with my anxiety?
Wow, it's been a month since I last wrote a non-book-review post! And you may have noticed 3 of those were yesterday, so sorry for the feed spam, I'm just…
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
⭐⭐ 1.5/5 Stars - This does nothing remotely interesting and it pissed me off.
The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30; Tiffany Aching #1) by Terry Pratchett
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 - Written for a younger audience but never talks down to them, and I absolutely love Tiffany!
White Noise by Don DeLillo
⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Stars - A biting and often funny satire, but I wanted to enjoy this more than I actually did.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
⭐⭐ 2/5 Stars - Disappointing. Flat characters, boring and never went anywhere interesting.
Reading Roundup: January 2026
January was a nice start to the year. A couple of non-fiction books and a lot more comics that I'd realised!
Rouge by Mona Awad – Review & Analysis
Dark, beautiful, thematically rich and got better with every read. I’ll never look at skin care the same way again.
Digest 20260205: Post-Anxiety Highs + an apropos WIP
I am emerging from 10 days in an anxiety hole. With the self-awareness of one long used to an anxious brain, I lost the plot, lost a lot of sleep…