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Several weeks' reading:
A History of Boston in Fifty Artifacts, by Joseph M. Bagley: what it says on the tin, by the City of Boston archeologist, written a few years ago. Fifty short chapters, each starting with a photo of an artifact, and then a few pages discussing it and giving the context for things like toy balls, broken pottery, and a soldering iron. Good. The author was inspired by a British Museum book, A History of the World in 100 Artifacts, which I may go look for next.
What If? 2: additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, by Randall Munroe --as described in the title, with lots of illustrations, by the person who draws and writes xkcd. I read both of these in Firefox on my desktop machine, because I wanted larger illustrations than I'd get on my kindle.
The Fossil Door, Point by Point, and The Hare and the Oak, by Celia Lake -- more in her Albion romance series (magical Britain in the 1920s). I'm still reading a lot of romances, and a lot of old mystery novels.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie, very good, and very well known.
The Clocks, by Agatha Christie, another Poirot mystery, because why not, and KCLS had it in kindle format available for immediate checkout. That's enough of these for a while, I think.
Spelunking through Hell, by Seanan McGuire, the latest in the InCryptid series. McGuire says this is the book she originally used to pitch the series. I found it disappointing, I think because it's more serious than the first few books. Partway through I was thinking that I wanted more world-building, but there's plenty of that here, just not the flavor I was looking for, I guess.
The Final Deduction, by Rex Stout, reread of a Nero Wolfe mystery.
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie, standalone mystery, lots of questions of identity, in particular, who is Evans?
Legends and Lattes: a novel of high fantasy and low stakes, by Travis Baldree. A fun story, in which a retired mercenary opens a café in a city where almost nobody had heard of coffee, hires an assistant, and finds happiness with the help of a skilled carpenter and a skilled and enthusiastic baker. The mercenary is an orc, and her assistant is a succubus, and they're both tired of stereotypical expectations. The self-appointed shop cat is both large and fierce.
A History of Boston in Fifty Artifacts, by Joseph M. Bagley: what it says on the tin, by the City of Boston archeologist, written a few years ago. Fifty short chapters, each starting with a photo of an artifact, and then a few pages discussing it and giving the context for things like toy balls, broken pottery, and a soldering iron. Good. The author was inspired by a British Museum book, A History of the World in 100 Artifacts, which I may go look for next.
What If? 2: additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, by Randall Munroe --as described in the title, with lots of illustrations, by the person who draws and writes xkcd. I read both of these in Firefox on my desktop machine, because I wanted larger illustrations than I'd get on my kindle.
The Fossil Door, Point by Point, and The Hare and the Oak, by Celia Lake -- more in her Albion romance series (magical Britain in the 1920s). I'm still reading a lot of romances, and a lot of old mystery novels.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie, very good, and very well known.
The Clocks, by Agatha Christie, another Poirot mystery, because why not, and KCLS had it in kindle format available for immediate checkout. That's enough of these for a while, I think.
Spelunking through Hell, by Seanan McGuire, the latest in the InCryptid series. McGuire says this is the book she originally used to pitch the series. I found it disappointing, I think because it's more serious than the first few books. Partway through I was thinking that I wanted more world-building, but there's plenty of that here, just not the flavor I was looking for, I guess.
The Final Deduction, by Rex Stout, reread of a Nero Wolfe mystery.
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie, standalone mystery, lots of questions of identity, in particular, who is Evans?
Legends and Lattes: a novel of high fantasy and low stakes, by Travis Baldree. A fun story, in which a retired mercenary opens a café in a city where almost nobody had heard of coffee, hires an assistant, and finds happiness with the help of a skilled carpenter and a skilled and enthusiastic baker. The mercenary is an orc, and her assistant is a succubus, and they're both tired of stereotypical expectations. The self-appointed shop cat is both large and fierce.
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