Recently finished #BonjourTristesse #FrançoiseSagan Three out of four stars. Might recommend. Might read again. "A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow." In progress: #Mythos #StephenFry

Recently finished #BrooklynNovel #ColmTóibín Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "Eilis Lacey, sitting at the window of the upstaris living room in the house on Friary Street, noticed her sister walking briskly from work." In progress: #BonjourTristesse #FrançoiseSagan

Recently finished #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #AgathaChristie Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided." In progress: #BrooklynNovel #colmtoibin

Recently finished #RedRising #PierceBrown Three out of four stars. Might recommend. Will not read again (it wasn't awful; just not my jam). "The first thing you should know about me is I am my father's son." In progress: #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #AgathaChristie

Recently finished #TheLincolnLawyer #MichaelConnelly Two-and-three-quarters out of four stars. Would recommend. Might read again. "The morning air off the Mojave in late winter is as clean and crisp as you'll ever breathe in Los Angeles County." Continuing with: #RedRising #PierceBrown

Recently finished #It'sAlwaysSomething #GildaRadner Doesn't really need a rating from me, but yeah, Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "I started out to write a book called 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Housewife.'" In progress: #RedRising #PierceBrown

Recently finished #WinterNovel #AliSmith Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "God was dead: to begin with." In progress: #It'sAlwaysSomething #GildaRadner (a re-read for me from about 20 yrs ago)

Recently finished #RilkeOnLoveAndOtherDifficulties #JohnJLMood Three out of four stars. Might recommend. Might read again. What caused me to want to read this book was a quote (posted here somewhere, I believe) but as usual, no source given for the quote 😒 In progress: #WinterNovel #AliSmith

Just finished #McGlue #OttessaMoshfegh Three out of four stars. Might recommend (CW: sexual violence). Might read again. "I wake up." Next up: #RilkeOnLoveAndOtherDifficulties #TranslationsAndConsiderationsByJohnJ.L.Mood

Recently finished #TheBeginningAndTheEnd #NaguibMahfouz Three out of four stars. Would recommend (CW: suicide & sexual harassment). Would read again. "The master in charge of school discipline cast a gloomy look down the long corridor which overlooked the upper school classes." In progress: #McGlue #OttessaMoshfegh