2023.Book15 - Drive your plow over the bones of the dead (Tokarczuk)

 Excellent Polish story. Righteous woman

2023.Book14 - The Books of Jacob (Tokarczuk)

 Epic about a Jewish sect in 18th-century Poland. Well done but not interesting. Long.

2023.Book13 - Catching Fire (Hahn)

Pretty interesting account of translating a book.

2023.Book12 - Fair Play (Jansson)

 Artists work and live

2023.Book11 - On Browsing (Guriel)

 Pretty interesting Toronto memoir.

2023.Book10 - Our Share of Night (Enriquez)

 Wow, really good. Freaky cult, old money, monsters.

2023.Book9 - Really Good Actually (Heisey)

 OK. Trying for lurid, hits pointless.

2023.Book8 many loves dobie gillis (shulman) -

 funny entertaining

2023.Book7 - Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Caudwell)

 Delightful. I didn't remember most of it.

2023.Book6 - Happy-Go-Lucky (Sedaris)

 Usual high-quality amusement.

2023.Book5 - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

 Pretty good, kind and empathetic

2023.Book4 - Idiot Girl (Notaro)

 Pretty funny, memoir.

2023.Book3 - Stella Maris (McCarthy)

 Also pretty good. The blind universe/black fire image was unsettling. Insufficient ridicule of mathematical platonism.

2023.Book2 - The Passenger (McCarthy)

 Western's conversations with his associates are entertaining - at least the associates are. ("Hot weather came, and I had to let her go.", "Once they start sweeping the floors and washing the plates with soap, it's all over.")

The math and physics were interesting but didn't really go anywhere. Mentioned, not used.

2023.Book1 - Throw Me to the Wolves (McGuinness)

 enjoyable.

2022.Book42 - Midlife (Setiya)

Pretty bad. High-level, just the uselessness of (modern?) analytic philosophy. Where it isn't wrong, it's shallow. (IMO hypothetical humans are fungible)

2022.Book41 - The Thousandfold Thought (Bakker)

 Excellent. Got a lot more of the secondary plots this time - what happened to Conphas, Moenghus.

2022.Book40 - The Warrior-Prophet (Bakker)

 Very good. Quite brutal

2022.Book39 - Only a Joke Can Save Us (McGowan)

 Pretty interesting. Lack vs excess. Tries to cram everything into that framework, and it doesn't all fit.

2022.Book38 - Nigger (Gregory)

 Excellent story of suffering and (partial) triumph.