book review roundup - 2022

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I've been slowly recovering from a major crash in my reading momentum, to the point where I could easily believe I'm reading fewer than a dozen books a year. Actually when I looked back and figured out what I had read in 2022 and 2023, it wasn't that bad... but it was skimpy enough, with a relatively small amount of denser stuff, that it didn't take me long to bash out a bunch of retrospective capsule reviews for a year at a time. Here's what I can remember from the year before last, plus a handful of related ones from 2021. I'm sure there are some I missed but whatever.

Piranesi - Susannah Clarke (2020, *****)
Titan - François Vigneault (2020, ****)
Feast Your Eyes - Myla Goldberg (2019, *****)
Qualification - David Heatley (2019, ****)
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers - Ben Passmore (2018, ****)
All Systems Red - Martha Wells (2017, ***)
Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe (2019, ****)
Bringing Out the Dead - Joe Connelly (1998, ***)
Joseph Smith and the Mormons - Noah van Sciver (2022, *****)
The Searching Dead - Ramsey Campbell (2016, *****)
Born to the Dark - Ramsey Campbell (2017, ***)
The Way of the Worm - Ramsey Campbell (2018, ****)
A Touch of Chill - Joan Aiken (1979, ****)
Fellstones - Ramsey Campbell (2022, ***)
From a Buick 8 - Stephen King (2002, **)