Photos are from Sunset House dive resort, Grand Cayman, Feb 2025
by Helen DeWitt
The English Understand Wool: Fantastic! Short story, distinct voice, unusual
Some Trick: Short stories, explores off the wall literary/mathematical/philosophical ideas in short form.
-by Kate Atkinson
Case Histories: Several detective cases that come together in the end. Ok, a bit long but it might fill my need for a mystery series.
One Good Turn: Same main detective and style with several plots coming together.
When Will There Be Good News: More of the same, though I find I don't love our main detectives. I might continue anyway, but not quickly.
-by Ingrid Thoft
Loyalty: She works as the PI for the family law firm. They are slightly shady but it strikes the right balance of gruesome for me. Not a lot of big mystery that you figure out from clues. She spends time running down leads that don't pan out.
Identity: The ending from the last one hooked me enough to quickly pick this up. Nice fast read.
Brutality: And then I quickly moved to the third
Duplicity: and fourth books. That's all she's got for now, but I would happily read more.
-by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Plot: Fun mix of mystery and novel and a book within a book. Next up is The Sequel, hah!
-by John M. Ford
The Final Reflection: Original series Star Trek book-super fun!!
-by Terry Pratchett (listening to ones that I read back in the day)
Reaper Man: When Death is briefly let go from his job. Audiobook for the win!
Monstrous Regiment: There is a war going on and it is time to find more recruits, but of course there is a twist.
-by Frank Herbert
Dune: I've been intimidated by the size, but listened as an audiobook while doing yard work and the time flew past.
-by Pat Murphy
Falling Woman: Older sci-fi novel about an archaeologist who sometimes sees through time. Ok, but not moved to check out any more.
-by Kevin Wilson
Nothing to See Here: A young woman who is struggling to find herself takes care of children who catch on fire. Audiobook won awards-nice.
-by Lisa Jewell
None of This is True: Slow thriller. I like a few more twists and found the ending super lame, but the rest of the writing is fine.
DNF
-by Helen DeWitt
The Last Samurai: It has some great writing, but I loved the short story so much, all this feels like too much.
-by Solvej Balle
On the Calculation of Volume: It is all the rage right now, got part way in, but felt like it was not moving forward.
-by Kaveh Akbar
Martyr!: I enjoyed the first quarter of it well enough, but then picked other books over it.
-by Ellen Hopkins
Tricks: On a list of frequently banned books. Several stories of older teens who, through a variety of circumstances end up turning to prostitution to survive. Well written, but just a little too long for me to finish after I got the gist.
