“The Man Who Died Twice” by Richard Osman

 I enjoyed vol. 2 of the Thursday Murder Club Series very much. The author develops his characters well, there are lots of twists and turns and amusing parts, and it’s fun reading about intelligent seniors living a full life solving murders.

“His Master’s Voice” by Stanislaw Lem

To call this book dense is an understatement, and yet, I read the whole thing. I was attracted by the glimmers of new ideas it gave me about the difficulties of translating messages from other civilizations… including not even knowing if they are messages or natural phenomena. The narrator speaks at such a high intellectual level that initially I thought the book was satirizing intellectualism. By the end, I decided that the author had been entirely serious.