2023.Book46 - Siddhartha (Hesse)

 Enjoyable, possibly deep.

2023.Book45 - The Track of Sand (Camilleri)

Another excellent Montalbano mystery. Ramping up the comedy, psychology, and twists.

2023.Book44 - Dissolution (Sansom)

 Pretty good mystery. Thomas Cromwell as villain.

2023.Book43 - A Spectre, Haunting (Mieville)

 Good stuff. Knowledgeable, not hypnotized

2023.Book42 - Death at La Fenice (Leon)

 Average mystery. Precedes, but pales in comparison with, Montalbano.

2023.Book41 - Ghosts (Wharton)

 Good short stories. Not chilling, but enjoyable. Last one (Perrier) was kind of Poe-esque creepy.

2022.Book40 - August Heat (Camilleri)

 Good as usual. Character cliff-hanger. And we never found out exactly what happened to Rolf?

2022.Book39 - Ex-Wife (Parrott)

 Enjoyable, pretty modern for a book that's 100 years old.

2022.Book38 - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (McBride)

 Very good. Entertaining.

2022.Book37 - Sun House (Duncan)

On the one hand, really terrible Mary Sue vs the Straw Men. With anachronism. And token struggles.

On the other hand I don't want to be cynical; I wish some of this was possibly true.

2022.Book36 - The Patience of the Spider (Camilleri)

 Good kidnapping story; consistent comedy.

2022.Book35 - Rounding the Mark (Camilleri)

 Consistent quality.

2022.Book34 - The Smell of Night (Camilleri)

 Another good one; weird at the end.

2023.Book 33 - what's bred in the bone

 classic Canadian. Should have been longer!

2023.Book32 - Excursion to Tindari (Camilleri)

 More humour, also quite grim.

2023.Book31 - Never Love a Stranger (Robbins)

 Kind of old-fashioned, toying with the lurid but staying pretty basic.

2023.Book30 - Tears of the Giraffe (McCall Smith)

 Pretty good. Series is kind of samey, which could be called consistency.

2023.Book29 - At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft)

 Pretty good. Classic. Dangerous explorations.

2023.Book28 - The Voice of the Violin (Camilleri)

 Good stuff. Fairly funny too.

2023.Book27 - The Snack Thief (Camilleri)

 Another good one. Interesting how the TV version was different/simpler.

2023.Book26 - The Terra-Cotta Dog (Camilleri)

 Another very good mystery. Enjoyable.

2023.Book25 - The Shape of Water (Camilleri)

 Enjoyable mystery (Sicilian)

2023.Book24 - Come, Thou Tortoise (Grant)

 OK, silly humour.

2023.Book23 - The Art of Eating (Fisher)

 Excellent collection of food writing.

2023.Book22 - The Maias (de Queirós)

 Very good 19c novel. Some pretty funny parts, melodrama, etc.

2023.Book21 - Devil in a Blue Dress (Mosley)

 Pretty good LA noir.

2023.Book20 - Travels with Charley (Steinbeck)

 OK. Kind of an "old man yells at cloud" vibe. The storm scene was breathtaking though, and the "cheerleader"/"witches' sabbath" episode was shocking.

2023.Book19 - Breath (Nestor)

 Pretty interesting and motivating.

2023.Book18 - Lies of Locke Lamora (Lynch)

 Still excellent. I'm surprised how little of the plot I remembered. Kind of a weird combination of grimdark and swashbuckling.

2023.Book17 - In the Wake (Sharpe)

     Surprisingly light-weight for such a serious topic. Misconstrual as method, pun-based philosophy.

2023.Book16 - How to Raise an Elephant (McCall Smith)

 nice and warm hearted, not much plot

2023.Book15 - Drive your plow over the bones of the dead (Tokarczuk)

 Excellent Polish story. Righteous woman

2023.Book14 - The Books of Jacob (Tokarczuk)

 Epic about a Jewish sect in 18th-century Poland. Well done but not interesting. Long.

2023.Book13 - Catching Fire (Hahn)

Pretty interesting account of translating a book.

2023.Book12 - Fair Play (Jansson)

 Artists work and live

2023.Book11 - On Browsing (Guriel)

 Pretty interesting Toronto memoir.

2023.Book10 - Our Share of Night (Enriquez)

 Wow, really good. Freaky cult, old money, monsters.

2023.Book9 - Really Good Actually (Heisey)

 OK. Trying for lurid, hits pointless.

2023.Book8 many loves dobie gillis (shulman) -

 funny entertaining

2023.Book7 - Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Caudwell)

 Delightful. I didn't remember most of it.

2023.Book6 - Happy-Go-Lucky (Sedaris)

 Usual high-quality amusement.

2023.Book5 - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

 Pretty good, kind and empathetic

2023.Book4 - Idiot Girl (Notaro)

 Pretty funny, memoir.

2023.Book3 - Stella Maris (McCarthy)

 Also pretty good. The blind universe/black fire image was unsettling. Insufficient ridicule of mathematical platonism.

2023.Book2 - The Passenger (McCarthy)

 Western's conversations with his associates are entertaining - at least the associates are. ("Hot weather came, and I had to let her go.", "Once they start sweeping the floors and washing the plates with soap, it's all over.")

The math and physics were interesting but didn't really go anywhere. Mentioned, not used.

2023.Book1 - Throw Me to the Wolves (McGuinness)

 enjoyable.