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Stand Alone: A Dickie Cornish Mystery by Christopher Chambers

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi: So funny! He explains that for the first time ever, he was finding it impossible to fulfill his commitment to his publisher -- the covid pandemic being a big part of that -- so the publisher let him off the hook and he immediately felt so light & free that he quickly wrote this very easy, funny novel instead.

The Trees by Percival Everett: Heavy handed a bit in the story-telling, but worth reading. Despite being a work of fiction, all the factual info about lynching, etc., is accurate. Interesting "What if?" story.

Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class by Charles Murray

"dungeons and dramas"

about a girl riley that worked at a game store.

I must have finished LeCarrés book (something like "A legacy of spies") and have just returned it to the library. I can hardly remember anything about it; definitely not recommended!

I have rediscovered the joy of reading! Reading "The Setting sun" by Osamu Dazai and quite enjoying it.

The worst hard time by Timothy Egan

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart: gives a good history showing how this is not new behavior.

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams: self-promoting but still an engaging discussion of behind the scenes at Facebook.

Riverworld And Other Stories, by Philip Jose`Farmer.

I'm about to start reading this anthology of stories of where the famous and infamous dead are again alive in a fantastical world existing along a river. My late dad had been a huge Farmer fan, and so I look forward to reading this.

Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi.

I'm going through all of Indy's adventures in chronological order and stopping before Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Henry Dunbarr by M.E.Braddon (1864).
"Superstition is, after all, only a dim, unconscious poetry, which is latent in most natures, except in such very hard practical minds as are incapable of believing in anything—not even in Heaven itself."
That's me.
Even some bits of scripture and tales of elves appeal to me. I just don't believe in them when I've stopped listening to the story.

Anyway, it's an early detective novel mostly.

No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy.

One of my birthday presents. So far, I've found the movie was very, very loyal to the source material. I've found McCarthy's style had become very minimalist with this and later books, as compared to his earlier work, like Blood Meridian.

Halo: The Flood

Still reading Henry Dunbarr. It's getting intriguing. This bloke's bird has been trying to have it out with the rotter who she thinks killed her dad, but after she's finally got to see him she ditches her bloke and tells him she's not worthy of him, but refuses to tell him why. The detective thinks the rotter has bought her off, but I don't believe it. He's tried to buy her off before but she's told him where he can shove it.

It's groundbreaking stuff. One of the first detective stories anybody ever wrote. Somebody ought to make a film of it.