Art Garfunkel famously keeps track of the books he has read since 1968. As of writing this, the count is 1327 (he does not add a review). I thought I could do something similar but I am adding short reviews of books as I read them, and I rake my brain over what I read over the last decades. This is, evidently, a work-in-progress: there are 566 reviews so far. Titles marked with a * are particular favorites.


Ambrose Parry: The art of dying

This second installment in the ‘Raven and Fisher’ series of medico-thrillers set in Victorian Edinburgh rectifies my sole complaint about the first tome: the language has improved and moves the book from