YOU CAN'T CATCH ME (Catherine McKenzie) - September 21/20

 I can't say I enjoyed this too much, ultimately. I thought the main storyline was actually pretty decent and even exciting, but McKenzie keeps cutting away to flashbacks of the protagonist's time living in a commune/cult and I couldn't possibly have cared less. The big revelations of the climax, which tie into the cult stuff, consequently fell completely flat for me. A rare misfire from McKenzie. ** out of ****

I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Iain Reid) - September 3/20

 Well, okay. I'm really not sure what to make of this. It's pretty well written and there were definitely some really interesting passages/scenes, but it just gets more and more surreal as it goes along, and I don't even have a clue what was going on in the last 50 pages or so. It's disappointing, given that Reid does have a lot of trenchant things to say about relationships. But I guess I wasn't bored, so there's that, anyway. **1/2 out of ****