Saturday, May 31, 2025

2025.Book24 - The Incident Report (Baillie)

 TPL or "Public Libraries of Toronto"? Nice and oblique. Honestly not sure how the Rigoletto plot concluded; red herring or critical? Librarians as front-line social workers.

2025.Book23 - Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dinniman)

 More game transcript than novel; last quarter got better. Don't feel any need to continue the series.

2025.Book22 - It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track (Penman)

Music criticism without music; sociology instead. (Writes off actual music as "algebra" in the Parker section).

Thursday, May 08, 2025

2025.Book19 - Terms of Endearment (McMurtry)

 Good fun, entertaining. Sad ending.

Thursday, May 01, 2025

2025.Book18 - My Dining Hell (Rayner)

 Very good. It's true; bad experiences are funnier than good ones.

2025.Book17 - A Pyramid of Mud (Camilleri)

 Excellent. Leaning on humour a bit more, I think.

2025.Book16 - Orbital (Harvey)

 Very good, poetic, scientific. Not quite as beautifully written as I expected, but what's being communicated was.

2025.Book15 - Nest of Vipers (Camilleri)

 Solid mystery, good to jump back often.