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The Burning Court by John Dickson Carr, one of my favourite golden age mystery novelists.

I've been working my way through a bunch of his books. This one is interesting because it doesn't have any of his recurring detectives but it does have a lot of genre-savvy characters running down a list of sensible theories and seemingly ruling them all out, so I have no idea where it's going. Lots of spooky stuff and ties to historical poisonings, too. Apparently the ending was "controversial at the time but now considered one of his best works," so who knows?

I have finally started readingH.P. Lovecraft – The complete Fiction after basically using this enormous book as a letterpress for the last couple of years.

The physical book itself is very pretty, though it's enormous size does make it a bit cumbersome to read in bed. Luckily the pages are so dense that entire stories fit on one or two spreads!

A picture of a large heavy book with cosmic imagery on the front

I felt abliged to read his works in chronological order which... I mean the first stories are pretty bad. I guess that's on me for trying to <pretentious>understand the evolution of his work</pretentious>.

Right now I'm reading Bellies by Nicola Dinan in my physical book slot and The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S. A. Chakraborty in my phone ebook slot. I'm between "reading out loud to my partner" books but we just finished Kelly Link's The Book of Love.

The Outside by Ada Hoffman - sci fi with some light horror elements, about a scientist forced to work with some AI gods to track down her thesis advisor who has gone rogue and done some heresy. Not all the way sold on it, but it’s interesting so far.