Books I Read December 14th, 2023

If you can avoid doing so, I would strongly recommend not severing the tip of your index finger. Nevertheless, last week I read the following.

The Sky Weeps For Me – A Sandinista revolutionary turned police investigator follows an abandoned yacht into an international drug conspiracy. A surprisingly classic procedural from one of Nicaragua's literary luminaries.

Ice by Anna Kavan – A nameless government agent follows a faceless woman into a rapidly arriving glacial apocalypse. Surrealistic existential sci-fi horror of the highest order, although a handful of descriptors really don't do justice to this striking, strange, beautiful novel. Very good.

Chaos, A Fable by Rodrigo Rey Rosa – A cabal of youthful geniuses plot to upend the world order. One of those rare books which I think would have worked better if it had been a few hundred pages longer.