I've read various books recently that I have a lot of thoughts about, and want to write up as they deserve. (A Letter to the Luminous Deep, Alien Clay, and The Ministry of Time are currently clamoring loudest.) In the meantime, though, here are some recent reads that I managed to be less longwinded about!

( 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff )

( The Twelve Chairs, by Ilf and Petrov, translated by Anne O. Fisher )

( The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington )

( Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn )