2024.Book11 Ball Four (Bouton)

 Pretty entertaining baseball stories. Probably better without appendices

2024.Book 10 Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons)

Very enjoyable

2024.Book9 -The Beast Must Die (Blake)

 Pretty enjoyable, interesting structure. Would have been better if the diary was all fake

2024.Book8 - The Red House Mystery (Milne)

 Enjoyable mystery. Self-consciously Holmes/Watson dynamic is fun.

2024.Book7 - The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Wilde)

Very good. Wilde will always beat his more sincere adversaries (Chesterton, Lewis) because he can say things just for effect. I imagine this drove them crazy. One good one though "The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

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.

2024.Book3 - Home Cooking (Colvin)

 Fairly entertaining.

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

 Wow, extremely good. Entertaining and very funny.

2024.Book1 - The Olympian Affair (Butcher)

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

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

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

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.