THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (Philip K. Dick) - March 22/17

I mean, whatever. I don't really see the entertainment value in this sort of thing. Dick spends so much time exploring and explaining the logistics of the alternate reality in which this transpires that I lost interest almost immediately. Plus he then spends an inordinate amount of time on the book penned by the title character. I glazed over much of the book's second half. * out of ****

FIFTEEN MINUTES TO LIVE (Phoef Sutton) - March 14/17

This is a decent yet pretty forgettable thriller. Sutton does a nice job of establishing the main characters, though he's not as successful with the periphery figures. It's kind of a one-note premise that probably would've been better served as a short story. **1/2 out of ****

A MAN CALLED OVE (Fredrik Backman) - March 8/17

This is extremely conventional but quite readable. Ove is quite compelling and so are the supporting characters. (Most of them, anyway; there are so many that I couldn't quite keep track of 'em all.) *** out of ****