2021.Book13 - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Smith)

 Enjoyable.

2021.Book12 - Monkey Wrench Gang (Abbey)

 Pretty good fantasy.

2021.Book11 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Reid)

 Pretty good. Internal view, stops short of horror.

2021.Book10 - Ghost Rider (Peart)

 General note; the more I read about bands I like, the less I like the people (see Max Webster).

This was pretty good, competently written, terrible events, not much insight. "Smite the smug" vs "if you do good, you get good" (unless this was subtle irony? but I don't think so)

2021.Book9 - The Prince of This World (Kotsko)

 Excellent. Good deep stuff.

2021.Book8 - Hunger (Gay)

Many short repetitive sections,

skimming along the surface.

Introspection without insight.

2021.Book7 - The Lying Life of Adults (Ferrante)

 Very good. Interesting people.

2021.Book6 - The Recognitions (Gaddis)

 Yeah, no.

2021.Book5 - Muscle (Fussell)

 Very good autobiography. Body building as escape from humanity, but if it's just one among many, what's the alternative? What was life like after bodybuilding?

2021.Book4 - Unraveled (Evans)

 Interesting. Does she pull her punches or did I give up the fight?

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.