Seventh book of 2024: “Titanium Noir", by Nick Harkaway ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62052321-titanium-noir). What it says on the tin and knows it. Spoonfuls of chewy metaphors.

Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandl…Goodreads
cover of “Titanium Noir”, by Nick Harkaway, as I read it, hardback (which is black). Black block stencil TITANIUM along the top over a black stencil fedora containing a shiny metallic head, dripping onto more black stencil NOIR over a brilliant green field. The authors name and other blurb elements including a quote from William Gibson are in a monospace console font.
Figure 1. cover of “Titanium Noir”, by Nick Harkaway, as I read it, hardback (which is black). Black block stencil TITANIUM along the top over a black stencil fedora containing a shiny metallic head, dripping onto more black stencil NOIR over a brilliant green field. The authors name and other blurb elements including a quote from William Gibson are in a monospace console font..

eighth book of 2024: “Stranger Things Happen", by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/stranger-things-happen-old).

Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link“Pity the poor librarians who have to slap a sticker on Kelly Link’s genre-bending, mind-blowing masterpiece of the imagination, Stranger Things Happen.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, for NPR’s You Must Read This This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and […]Kelly Link

So good, I’m grabbing another collection of Link’s, "Get in Trouble”, immediately.

the paperback cover of “stranger things happen”, by Kelly Link, as I read it. A mid-century lookin’ color illustration of a blonde woman in a blue blouse, tan skirt, and black heels carries a flashlight through a dark wood.
Figure 2. the paperback cover of “stranger things happen”, by Kelly Link, as I read it. A mid-century lookin’ color illustration of a blonde woman in a blue blouse, tan skirt, and black heels carries a flashlight through a dark wood..
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