I'm reading the most amazing book right now: The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish. Historical fiction, dual timeline (then: 17th century England; now: 21st century England), centered around a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish community that settled in England just in time for a plague. The writing just sings and I'm so interested by the characters and history. What are you reading?
"Earwig", by Brian Catling. It's about a very neurotic man, employed at a remarkable salary by employers unknown, to take care of a third-floor apartment in Liège and its contents "for from three to five years" and to allow no one to enter without permission.
Among the contents are a somewhat willful little girl about age nine, named Mia, with teeth made of ice, which need to be replaced regularly.
Catling's like this.
@mcfate Wow! That's an intriguing premise for sure.
I got into Catling reading his "Vorrh Trilogy", which is just wild.
@mcfate Nice! I like a good variety of books myself, though it's increasingly rare for me to pick straight up literary fiction with no speculative elements these days. I love the chance to read about something I know very little about.
@Samanthabwriter
I learn toward all sorts of things. I only just finished "The Long Ships", a really excellent novel about Vikings in the Tenth Century and "Shipwrecks", about an impoverished medieval Japanese village whose prospects are occasionally improved by the merchant ship they lure onto the reef with "salt-distilling" fires, in order to kill the crews and loot the cargos.