Ended my visit to the Existentialist Café, and am allowed to roll again -- for the last or, at most, penultimate time.

This lands me on the Nordic Express square (#32), for which I'm going to use my final Scottie Dog card -- separate post to come.

* Sofi Oksanen: Fegefeuer (The Purge)

* Cary Elwes et al.: As You Wish

* Jo Nesbø: Macbeth

* Barbara Vine: Asta's Book

Well, I'm not sure what I've just read (John Le Carré's A Small Town in Germany certainly hasn't aged very well, generally speaking, though in some parts it's eerily prescient); anyway, having finished it, I'm allowed to roll again.

This takes me to square 10: Beach Week -- read a book that appears on any beach reads list or whose author's first or last name begins with any letter in B-E-A-C-H.

Since it's also time to start using the novelty cards I am holding, I'll use one of my two Scottie Dog cards and ask you guys which book I should read next:

1. Gertrude Bell: A Woman in Arabia

2. Joy Ellis: The Guilty Ones

2. Reenee Ahdieh: The Wrath and the Dawn

4. Sara Collins: The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Since I have a few other books going that I'd also like to make progress with, I'm going to leave this open until tonight, possibly tomorrow morning.

* Laura Restrepo: Hot Sur

* Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate

* Ann Leckie: The Raven Tower

* Renee Adieh: The Wrath and the Dawn

UPDATED July 21: The votes are in: The Raven Tower it is.