"The God of the Woods" by Liz Moore. Hard copy. Office book club selection. I was #455 on the waitlist and yet got the book within a week. And it didn't take a week to read, either. I spent a lot of time thinking about who the bad guy is. Alice? She had the least satisfying resolution definitely. What, are you all just going to let her go along drugging herself and not remembering all the bad things she did?
"World of Wonders" by Robertson Davies. Hard copy. Good for travelling as it was small, also a sequel, so now I've finished the series. Go me! This was a shockingly dense, slow read, but maybe that's just compared to the previous book which took like 45 seconds per page.
LHC #309: "The Manual of Detection" by Jedediah Berry. Hard copy. Only 2 copies in the TPL. It was really well plotted but I didn't connect much with the main character.
LHC #310: "Assassin of Reality" by by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey. eBook. Sequel to Vita Nostra, which I read back in March of 2024, so I guess I'm on schedule for this one, 22 months later? I remember the verbs in the first one driving me crazy, and this one too. Makes sense somehow, considering the themes. I put the final volume on my list.
LHC #311: "The Sun, the moon, and the stars" by Steven Brust. Hard copy. Only 2 copies in the TPL. I realized about 3 chapters in that the sections were named after famous paintings, so I did what any normal person would do and started googling them and taking a look as I read the chapter. Like, what was he going for with that choice? Hmmmph. And then I realized, this book was published in 1987. People who read this when it came out couldn't do that. Did they get to know these paintings?