Stiff,by Mary Roach. 2004. Very interesting book about corpses, what people do with them, how they are used, historically where they came from. She’s a witty writer and finds out interesting things.

Thick and other essays, 2019, by Tressie McMillan Cottom. Good writer, great essays, written by a scholar, author and sociologist with a decade-long track record of exceptional work. Amazon reviewer says these essays are “crammed full of striking observations about America’s current and historical racial/economic/class schisms,” And they are.

Cara Hunter, In the Dark, 2019. Pretty good mystery. not much more to say

Peter May, I’ll Keep you Safe, 2019. Not as good as his many other books, but very descriptive of the Hebrides, and weaving and textiles and the business behind it all. Interesting to read about looms and weavers. The murder not so interesting.

James Oswald, Cold as the Grave, 2019. #9 of his Inspector McLean series, very good mystery.

Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle, 2019. Another very good mystery in her Ruth Galloway series, with DCI Nelson. Thoroughly enjoyable characters, great setting, good mystery.

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza 2018. Very good novel. How a family deals with life in America. Good writer.

The wife Between Us, 2019 by Greer Hendricks (Author), Sarah Pekkanen . Irritating mystery. Women too flaky for me. inventive plot, and not badly written but not a single character I liked at all.