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Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (Paperback, 1994, Harcourt) 4 stars

The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and …

the audiobook for this is very soothing. Short chapters just the right length to fall asleep to… monks with different voices played by the same guy… long lists of different fabulous gargoyles or heresies or whatever… sections of untranslated latin, which I mayyybe might be able to puzzle out in text but spoken are white noise… arguments about biblical interpretation, basically ditto… for all I know the book is a very good mystery but it is also very good at lulling me comfortably to sleep, 5 stars, will borrow again