Second paragraph of third chapter:

A few groups of richly dressed people still lingered standing, like clusters of jewels hung from a woman’s throat, but most were seated. The steward who’d opened the door for Maud cleared his throat meaningfully.

Sequel to A Marvellous Light; I acquired them both as part of the 2022 Hugo packet and have the third still to go. It’s a sorcerous murder story set on an Edwardian transatlantic liner, with a lot of lesbian sex. Tremendous fun. Second of the series, and I had forgotten what happened in the first volume but enjoyed this anyway. You can get it here.

This was my top unread book by a woman. Next on that pile is Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad. (And we don’t really know what Homer’s gender identity was either.)