2025.Book37 - Stormy Weather (Hiaasen)

 Fairly entertaining: a bit "one thing after another"

2025.Book36 - The Liminal Zone (Ito)

 First one of his I've read. It's OK, not much of a graphic novel person I guess.

2025.Book35 - Gender Queer (Kobabe)

 Pretty interesting memoir. Dysmorphia plus some cultural involvement. 

2025.Book34 - The Overnight Kidnapper (Camilleri)

 Pretty good. Standard Montalbano.

2025.Book33 - The Sword of Shannara (Brooks)

 Re-read forty years later. Not very good, a lot like LotR. And now there are a lot of books like this. Maybe more interesting at the time. (Golden age of sci-fi is 13)

2025.Book32 - The Plot (Korelitz)

 Horror but you don't know it. For a writer-focused book, some infelicities of language. Just OK.

2025.Book31 - Inventing the Renaissance (Palmer)

 Very interesting. Sometimes bogs down in dates. 

• spiritual organization recapitulating political organization. 
• Virtue Politics

2025.Book30 - The Tiger and The Wolf (Tchaikovsky)

 Pretty good, too long and samey. Metaphors for mental illness?

2025.Book29 - The Prodigal God (Keller)

 Pretty weak. Trying to cram his theology into Jesus' story. 

 Couple of howlers: "no one had ever taught anything like this before" (except the prophets), and bringing in Cain & Abel to move responsibility from the father to the elder brother (explaining God's inaction).  

2025.Book28 - The President (Simenon)

 Pretty good; a little plot, not too much

2025.Book27 - Hotel Splendide (Bemelmans)

 Pretty boring. Slightly interesting story at the end

2025.Book26 - The Will of the Many (Islington)

 Excellent epic fantasy. Good characters, tons of plot, interesting world

2025.Book25 - Paul Among Jews and Gentiles (Stendahl)

 Very good. Love vs integrity, guilt and the introspective conscience as Augustinian and Lutheran innovations.

2025.Book24 - The Incident Report (Baillie)

 TPL or "Public Libraries of Toronto"? Nice and oblique. Honestly not sure how the Rigoletto plot concluded; red herring or critical? Librarians as front-line social workers.

2025.Book23 - Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dinniman)

 More game transcript than novel; last quarter got better. Don't feel any need to continue the series.

2025.Book22 - It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track (Penman)

Music criticism without music; sociology instead. (Writes off actual music as "algebra" in the Parker section).

2025.Book21 - A Voice in the Night (Camilleri)

 Good parallel plots.

2025.Book20 - Shadow and Claw (Wolfe)

 Very good re-read.

2025.Book19 - Terms of Endearment (McMurtry)

 Good fun, entertaining. Sad ending.

2025.Book18 - My Dining Hell (Rayner)

 Very good. It's true; bad experiences are funnier than good ones.