2022.Book8 - Lab Girl (Jahren)

 Really good.

2022.Book7 - The Genetic Lottery (Harden)

 Excellent

2022.Book6 - Jesus and John Wayne (Du Mez)

 Spectacular history of American Evangelical Christianity. Bad memories, but somehow I never got that into it. Anabaptist inoculation.

2022.Book5 - Creeks and Crises (Neufeld)

 Excellent family history.

2022.Book4 - The Word is Murder (Horowitz)

If anyone can make metafiction too self-absorbed, it's the British.

2022.Book3 - Fight Night (Toews)

 Pretty good. Works hard for not much payoff. Entertaining.

2022.Book2 - The Talented Mr. Varg (McCall Smith)

 Not very good. Loose plot, unimportant characters.

2022.Book1 - The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe (McCall Smith)

 Just OK.

2021.Book 49 - Conversations with Friends

 Not sure what it was going to be about. Kind of Neapolitan

2021.Book48 - The Institute (King)

 Good stuff. You know what you're getting with Stephen King.

2021.Book47 - Agent Running in the Field (LeCarre)

 Very good. Excellent twist, ending kind of unresolved.

2021.Book46 - Side Effects (Allen)

 We had to steal to eat. Then we had to steal to tip.

2021.Book45 - Greenlights (McConaghey)

 pretty good

2021.Book44 - Rivendell Readers (Petersen)

 Pretty interesting, learned a lot.

2021.Book43 - The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (LeCarre)

 Very good. Complex and bleak.

2021.Book42 - Dead Astronauts (Vandermeer)

 Phenomenology of genetic engineering? Inside the apocalypse?

2021.Book41 - Kingdom and Empire (Tempelmeyer)

 Pretty good.

2021.Book40 - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me (Kalb)

 A nice life.

2021.Book39 - Piranesi (Clarke)

 Not what I expected, but very good.  Seems pretty straightforward, are there hidden depths?

2021.Book38 - Red Dragon (Harris)

 Good stuff.