'Writing this under duress as I am coming to the end of William Gaddis' The Recognitions, which will deserve an entry all to itself. There were some good reads in this batch, a history of Labour government in London written from the point of view of the left, a cracking slice of East Anglian gothic, and David Hackett Fischer's 'Liberty and Freedom' inspired by the jaw-dropping scenes in DC as Trump supporters with their own view of liberty and freedom attached the Capitol building, which should symbolise both. Very good on the clash of different views of liberty and freedom in the Us and how they have developed and clashed. then finally a Magnus Mills comfort read, the normal sparse surrealism in an enclosed world.
