2021.Book3 - How to Pronounce Knife (Thammavongsa)

 Misery as entertainment

2021.Book2 - Mexico Set (Deighton)

 Pretty good spy stuff. Can an author write a depressed character and not know it?

2021.Book1 - Twelve Who Ruled (Palmer)

 Very interesting how much the first republic was the image of what all governments look like now.

2020.Book38 - Berlin Game (Deighton)

 Pretty good, but such an unlikable protagonist. Not sure if that's just the distance between then and now or intentional, or maybe a portrait of depression?

2020.Book37 - This was Supposed to be Fun (Martis)

Fairly shallow memoir (of legitimately traumatic events) coupled with some basic race-and-society run-through

2020.Book36 - Spy Hook (Deighton)

 Pretty good. Middle of a series though, so I'll start at the beginning.

2020.Book35 - Middle C (Gass)

 Excellent. Live free of blame by lying. Also modern composers!

2020.Book34 - My Lady Ludlow (Gaskell)

 Good characters.

2020.Book33 - A Jazz Odyssey (Peterson)

 Very interesting life story. Includes a lot of commentary on music and musicians, which is great.

2020.Book32 - The Atrocity Archive (Stross)

 Pretty good. A little too ostentatiously nerdy.

2020.Book31 - The Rhesus Chart (Stross)

 Fun stuff.

2020.Book30 - Give, Take

 Nice

2020.Book29 - The Bell Jar (Plath)

 Sad, then hopeful.

2020.Book28 - The Mirror and the Light (Mantel)

 Excellent. A great novel.

2020.Book27 - Caste (Wilkerson)

 Excellent. Race is the skin, caste is the bones.

2020.Book26 - The Angel of the Crows (Addison)

 Very good. Not the non-stop fun times of Goblin Emperor; Doyle has more problems.

2020.Book25 - The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (Robin)

 Very interesting. Tragic view.

2020.Book24 - Being and Place Among the Tlingit (Thornton)

 Pretty interesting.

2020.Book23 - Order of the Pure Moon ... (Cho)

Pretty good. Cho will have my eternal respect for that "smoke curling from her jaws" in Sorceror to the Crown.

2020.Book22 - Wolf Hall (Mantel)

Excellent historical novel.