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landofnowhere(A belated post, because yesterday I was in a state of *aaaah I am Giving a Talk tomorrow*, and now I have Given a Talk and all is good.)
Le fantôme de maître Guillemin, Evelyne Brisou-Pellen. I actually read this last week, but then forgot about it. Picked up from a Little Free Library, because it looked intriguing -- historical middle-grade mystery set at the university of Nantes in 1481. Not particularly memorable, and I don't have a good sense of how it fits into historical murder mystery tropes.
Index, a History of The, Dennis Duncan. This did a really good job of putting the index, and related innovations that made books easier to read, in historical context, while also being engaging to read -- though ultimately it felt somewhat slight.
The Bride Test, Helen Hoang. I've been reading the Helen Hoang novels in the opposite order from how they were published -- and the two I've read so far have been cathartic, which is not really what I expect of a romance novel. Maybe I hope she writes something in a different genre, because I am not that interested in how the characters have the hots for each other. In this one I felt invested in both Khai and Esme as individuals, but not particularly in their relationship, except in as much as it made them happy.
Several People are Typing, by Calvin Kalsuke. Recommended byskygiants, who described it as a book-length The Toast post, which is spot on. Surrealist fiction told entirely in workplace Slack messages. Sometimes funny, sometimes just weird.
Le fantôme de maître Guillemin, Evelyne Brisou-Pellen. I actually read this last week, but then forgot about it. Picked up from a Little Free Library, because it looked intriguing -- historical middle-grade mystery set at the university of Nantes in 1481. Not particularly memorable, and I don't have a good sense of how it fits into historical murder mystery tropes.
Index, a History of The, Dennis Duncan. This did a really good job of putting the index, and related innovations that made books easier to read, in historical context, while also being engaging to read -- though ultimately it felt somewhat slight.
The Bride Test, Helen Hoang. I've been reading the Helen Hoang novels in the opposite order from how they were published -- and the two I've read so far have been cathartic, which is not really what I expect of a romance novel. Maybe I hope she writes something in a different genre, because I am not that interested in how the characters have the hots for each other. In this one I felt invested in both Khai and Esme as individuals, but not particularly in their relationship, except in as much as it made them happy.
Several People are Typing, by Calvin Kalsuke. Recommended by
skygiants, who described it as a book-length The Toast post, which is spot on. Surrealist fiction told entirely in workplace Slack messages. Sometimes funny, sometimes just weird.