2019/132: Lord of the Silent -- Elizabeth Peters

2019/132: Lord of the Silent -- Elizabeth Peters

... long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue. [p. 674]

I didn't really get into the rhythm of this, the thirteenth in the Amelia Peabody series: this might simply be because I read it in short bursts at a busy time of year. Or it might be because the focus switches so much -- from Amelia, to her son Ramses, to Ramses' wife.
( no spoilers )

2019/133: Agents of Dreamland -- Caitlin R Kiernan

2019/133: Agents of Dreamland -- Caitlin R Kiernan

I am left here alone with myself and the others and with the sizzle of my brains in this woman’s skull, a resonant frequency that perfectly matches white noise, the random signal possessed of a perpetual power supply, and in discrete time, a procession of serially uncorrelated random variables (finite variance, zero mean). [p. 26]

Another of Tor's transformative Lovecraftian novellas. (Previously reviewed: Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson.)

This is an unsettling tale of fungal infestation, apocalyptic cults and alien invasion, with a distinctly noir feel and an interesting choice of viewpoint characters. ( no spoilers )