Monday, January 29, 2024

2024.Book6 - Hag-Seed (Atwood)

Good at the concept and plot level, cringeworthy at the sentence and word level. 

There is no Oxfam in Toronto, although obviously there are Winners locations everywhere. Whose miss was that?

2024.Book5 - Hitch in Time (Hitchens)

 Fine, but I don't have the context to get a lot of the references.

2024.Book4 - Red Team Blues (Doctorow)

 Pretty good. I always wonder if infelicities of prose are intentional ("Guilt by association is not a crime.'). And for a forensic accountant, the protagonist doesn't do much accounting - just social media scraping (first contracted out, then directly). Didn't get the Baron von Rijsstafel pun.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Monday, January 22, 2024

2024.Book2 - The History of Tom Jones (Fielding)

 Wow, extremely good. Entertaining and very funny.

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

2024.Book1 - The Olympian Affair (Butcher)

An excellent sequel to Aeronaut's Windlass. Fun adventure.

Friday, January 05, 2024

2023.Book47 - The Aeronaut's Windlass (Butcher)

 Re-read in preparation for the sequel. Still very good, appealing characters in peril.