dv said:

I did quite well in the gift department. I told people I wanted books and I got books.

The World The Plague Made: the Black Death and the Rise of Europe
By James Belich

The Likeness
and
In The Woods
By Tana French

Bullet Train
By Kotaro Isaka

Excavating Q: The History and the Setting of the Sayings Gospel
By John S. Kloppenborg Verbin

>>“Sayings Gospel” refers primarily to the hypothesized Q source (Quelle), a collection of Jesus’ sayings used by Matthew and Luke, but also to other non-canonical texts like the Gospel of Thomas, containing unique teachings (logia) not in the Bible, focusing on deep wisdom, spiritual transformation, and practical ethics like loving enemies, giving freely, and turning the other cheek.

Ta.