As We Seek Moderation!!! In All Things!!!!!! What are Your Reading in Autumn of 2024?

It's That Time again.

I have just finished Black Money by Ross MacDonald. It had a very elaborate red herring of subplot that consumed the greater part of the build-up to revealing the true thread of circumstances that lead to the Required Murder(s), but I've discovered that I do not read him for the unraveling of the mystery, but for the pleasure of the characters and quotidian details in the stories he constructs.

Now I am re-reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I first read it around 1971, when it was not just recent but critically relevant to the times. I was about 16 and in high school and I found it wholly persuasive on the level of his lived experience and the evolution of his worldview. I decided it was time for a revisit.

Reading the first volume of Your Face Tomorrow. Took three or four times starting this book before I got traction.

Oops, wasn't done ... anyway i'm slowly warming to the book's method, I'd call it an endless series of digressions but that suggests a foreground / background distinction that is questionable.

Rereading Passing, Nella Larsen. Still rules.

yuko tsushima, territory of light

for some reason it has taken me a week or more to read this v short bk, i guess i'm finding parts of it laborious even tho overall i give it the thumbs up

Caught, Back, Party Going: What Are You Reading In The Fall of 2024?

the circle game!

I started reading Octavia E Butler this summer and am completely hooked, just finishing Parable of the Talents and looking into which one to read next.

I'm going to direct future posts to this WAYR thread, which was started before this one:

Caught, Back, Party Going: What Are You Reading In The Fall of 2024?

With apologies, I will C&P the relevant posts made above to that thread. This thread can be locked.