Acceptance (Southern Reach #3) by Jeff VanderMeer

Well Acceptance doesn't really answer all of the questions posed by the previous two books in the series. But really those kinds of questions usually don't have satisfactory answers anyway... So I did enjoy reading it and several of the threads from the previous two books are picked up while giving a sense of what maybe Area X really is. I guess it ties up the story as best as possible. B+

Book # 54 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Even though I watched the film version of The Age of Innocence maybe fifteen years ago or so I had no idea what this book would be about. Memory huh? Anyway the book is set in New York during the late 1800's and is about this guy that falls in love with his fiancee's cousin. The writing is to be admired and there as some lovely passages... but for the most part I couldn't get into the story. I guess I wasn't really sold on why Newland would fall so much in love with the Countess, or vice versa. And the end was a bit frustrating too, or at least that's my interpretation of it. Another list book, Middlemarch, gets a mention. Let's say B+