Finished 12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon, by Jamie Holmes, which was quite interesting.
Now I’m reading A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine.
I just finished The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon. He’s a neuroscientist who discovered in his early 60’s that his own PET scan looked an awful lot like those of the psychopaths he’d been studying…
It’s a fascinating book, not least because it follows the thought process of someone who’s discovering some new things about himself at an age when most of us have settled pretty firmly into our self-image.
No, he didn’t what was it?
Finished listening to The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. A good and entertaining read about a husband who disappears, leaving his daughter with his recently-married wife.
Now I’ve started False Witness by Karin Slaughter. Recommended by my daughter. If I don’t like it, I will blame her.
I’ve been reading a lot of graphic novels lately. My brain doesn’t want to remember what graphics I’ve read lately. But I do know that, at the moment, I’m in the middle of Backpacking Through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire.
Finished The Moon-Spinners, by Mary Stewart.
Still reading The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America, by Brian M Fagan.
Started The Cater Street Hangman, by Anne Perry.
Next up: A Dangerous Mourning, by Anne Perry.
Started today on a YA novel, Summer in Orcus:
I’m fixin’ to have me a Kingfisherrific month, as I have several more of hers coming down the pike.
A Window on Eternity - Edward O. Wilson
The story of the recovery of the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. Happy to read some good news for once.
Nice book, with a lot of good pictures
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps - Seirian Summer
A look at the natural history of wasps, an enormously diverse group of insects. Lots of interesting information about the evolution and ecology of these fascinating animals.
NB - Although I certainly learned a lot about wasps, I still don’t like them.
I think I shall join you! I just got “House with Good Bones” & “Nettle & Bone” (plus I have several others already.)
Yay! We deserve it. 
Finished The Old Man by Thomas Perry, a good but not great spy thriller. Now I’m interested in seeing the Jeff Bridges/John Lithgow miniseries; I love those actors, and hope it’s a bit better than the book.
Inspired by this thread, I’m now rereading Ken Grimwood’s Reply. It’s just as good as I remember.
The British ambassador said at a dinner party, “When the President proposed to Mrs. Galt, she was so surprised she fell out of bed.” The joke got back to Wilson, who frostily told His Majesty’s Government that the ambassador was no longer welcome in the U.S. He was recalled and a new ambassador sent.
On further digging, it looks like this might have been a senior British diplomat in Washington, but not the ambassador himself.
Nettle & Bone was one of the best novels I read last year. I have A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking on my TBR shelf.
Finished A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine, which was excellent–I think I liked it more than A Memory Called Empire.
Now I’m reading A Big Important Art Book–Now With Women!: Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists and PRojects to Help You Become One, by Danielle Krysa.
Good to hear! I also have A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking on my Kindle, plus 3(?) Paladin books. I would like her to write a sequel to Swordheart -fingers crossed-
I am pretty sure she has said she is planning to write more Swordheart books.
Yeah, I’m sure she will, I’m just bad at waiting. 
I dnf’d Waye Caldwell’s Cataloochee with extreme prejudice. Four hundred pages in (it’s a 500 page book in large print) and I just didn’t care anymore. It would have been better if he had decided to write a family epic OR the tale of how people lost their farms when the Great Smokies National Park was established, but he definitely couldn’t do both. The only reason I stuck with it as long as I did was because I wanted to find out who shot the guy who needed shootin’ at the beginning. Once that mystery was solved, my slight interest in the book vanished.
Finished The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America, by Brian M Fagan, and The Cater Street Hangman, by Anne Perry.
Started A Dangerous Mourning, by Anne Perry.
Next up: Not sure yet…
Finished A Big Important Art Book–Now With Women!: Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists and Projects to Help You Become One, by Danielle Krysa, which I enjoyed. My favorite was an installation called “Train That Stood Still” by an artist named Olek. She crocheted what I can only call a “locomotive cozy”–although it includes other cars as well. Here’s a link: The Train That Stands Still | HuffPost Entertainment
Now I’m reading Everfair, by Nisi Shawl.
As someone who crocheted many, MANY, blankets one year, I am in awe of that train.
Wow, I just opened a chatGTP session to get some book recommendations and their recommendations are the highlights of the stuff I read in the last couple decades. After less than 30 titles I got a response that actually interested me.
I’m pleased at the progress we are making:)
Out of 30 titles: 2 I tried and didn’t like, 1 new (for me) and 27 I’ve read and liked - way more efficient than trolling through Goodreads lists.