Monthly Log: 10.26

LOTS of good stuff this month! Books 📕 La mascella di Caino (Torquemada): Italian edition of "Cain's Jawbone", and this is one of the reasons I dropped it. If you don't know anything about the book, it's basically a 100-out-of-order-pages puzzle in which you have not only to determine the order, but also the names of murderers and victims of three different crimes. I got it for 2 euros at a used books market, and my brother considered it "impossible", so of course I was up for the challenge! Especially after having so much fun with Iacopo Cellini's "Il gioco di Andromeda", which is directly inspired from this one. I assumed Andromeda had puzzles, but this one was fairly clear in its single pages; I was wrong. The text is full of word games, spoonerisms, obscure hints which are hard to look up because they lack a common thread (unlike Andromeda, where the more you research on mythology and literature the more you might find the same information elsewhere). Turns out I hate spoonerisms…