Currently reading
A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
All the Names
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Down the Garden Path
Virtue Betray'd, Or, Anna Bullen
Year of Wonders
Swallows and Amazons
Illusion in java
Engrossing, tightly-wound, and interesting. I was going to say it was a short book, but looking, I found it was 262 pages. It's just such a page-turner, it went fast. One of the few books where the tension made me want to skip forward to read the end so I would know! I looked up de Clérambault's syndrome, also called erotomania, and it is a real thing. I sometimes avoid McEwan because his books can be so dark, but while this was a kind of noir thriller, it wasn't as dark as I was worried it might be. He's clearly bucking the trend that every modern novel must have a rape or incest to be taken seriously.
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