Finished reading Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miya Lee. I liked the former just fine, but I admittedly still don't get the widespread popularity Rooney has. And the latter falls in the niche category of cozy Korean and Japanese literature that's largely musings on life, but unfortunately does not stand out enough.

Currently reading Conclave by Robert Harris. I swear it's not because of real life events, I just enjoyed the movie that much, and the library hold came through coincidentally at the same time. I'm liking the book so far.

I'm also doing a buddy read of Counterfeit by Kristen Chen, which we definitely started because of real life events, haha. I like the book but I'm still pretty early on. I was amused that both Conversations with Friends and this one has no quotation marks, it's such a rarity yet I somehow managed to pick two back to back.