Oh hello

 Mr. Mouse, the dog and I recently had a week off.  We went to the desert, did desert-y things like hiking, mountain-biking, road cycling and drinking.  I also brought thirteen library books with me.  I didn't read all of them - one I forgot I'd read already, one I got about fifty pages into before deciding I wasn't into it - but I did read a bunch:

• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill - A quick read, decent murder mystery set in Boston, abrupt ending
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey - Science fiction-tinged (clones) domestic thriller
• Normal People by Sally Rooney - An Irish modern relationship novel about a young couple, high school through college (meh) (and I did not know it was a Hulu series)
• Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - High fantasy series, recent Netflix acquisition that now I'm going to have to go back to because I liked this book quite a bit
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - horror-ish about 1990s Mexico City and its film industry, plus sorcerors
• The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill - Decent British murder mystery (I do love a good British murder mystery) although it seems weird that it's the start of the "Simon Serailler series" when Simon himself plays a very small role - maybe he gets more to do in subsequent books?
• How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny - Continuing Canadian murder mystery series starring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and crew
• The Long Way Home by Louise Penny - The next in the Chief Inspector Gamache series, which is just fanastic if you like murder mysteries (great characters, solid mysteries, makes me want to move to a small village in the Quebec woods)