Time for some catch up...
The Outcast Dead,
The Ghost Fields and
The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths - books 6, 7, 8 of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries. As with the last few, the mysteries are all feeling quite familiar, but they are short and fun reads. Mostly 4/5 except book 8 seemed to drag a bit, so time for another break.
The Girl from Oto by Amy Maroney, a historical fiction mystery. I thought this sounded interesting, and I mostly liked the writing but after 30% very little had happened and I was starting to avoid picking it up, so marking as DNF for now, I might try again some other time.
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (author famous for
A Fault in Our Stars). A collection of essays; mostly observations about being human, or about being an American human, anyway, as this is a very American-centric collection. I read this over a number of weeks, interspersed with other books - it needs breaking up. I liked the first half, maybe a bit more, of the collection, they felt more hopeful and outward looking, while the last part seemed to get more and more introspective - which was still interesting, just less actively enjoyable. 3/5.
Magic of the Gargoyles,
Curse of the Gargoyles and
Secret of the Gargoyles by Rebecca Chastain - the
Gargoyle Guardian series. There really isn't much to these, no subtlety, no sophistication, no surprises, basically everything you expect from a modern YA fantasy romance
. But I did rather like the fantasy concept and they were short (400 pages all up) and moved along very quickly making them an easy read. So I'm going to round from 2.5 up to 3/5.
I already mentioned reading
The Little Paris Bookshop in a previous
post.
Dinosaurs! by Scientific American. I rather belatedly got to this 2014 collection of articles about dinosaurs - always fun. Also interesting to see how much things have moved along in the last few decades.