Spice and Wolf 22 read:

This was a pretty fun book consisting of three short stories.  One was about surveying a mountain and finding a way to make the business prospects of it environmentally friendly.  I like how they manage to fit in solar power despite this being the Medieval era.  The second short story involves a strange mercantile riddle where the monetary system has broken down.  Everyone in town is buying on credit, and no one is actually paying, and as a result everyone has to go deeper into debt and buy more on credit since they haven't received their pay yet.  This unbreakable spiral is solved by Lawrence introducing enough money to actually pay off one debt, while making the paid person promise to in turn pay off their debt, and so on, until the city miraculously recovers in a single day.

The third story shouldn't properly be in a Spice and Wolf book, since it's about Col and Myuri, the protagonists of Parchment and Wolf.  I guess the author found Myuri too fascinating a subject to put away.  Through a series of misunderstandings the bride of a wedding thinks her family has come to murder her groom and recruits Col and Myuri to save him.  It turns out their services aren't required though because blah blah blah and everyone lives happily ever after.

Spice and Wolf tries to avoid violence and stick to amicable relations because that's its forte.  I like when it stays in its lane.  There are plenty of violent novel franchises but only one novel franchise about merchants.  I think the only point of the third story was to show Myuri dressed up for the wedding.

Using this book I've gotten my music playlist down to 80.  So close to complete!

P.S.  The Hispanics voting Republican factoid came from Fox News.  CNN and the Washington Post have alternative facts, claiming Hispanics went 70/30 for Democrats like usual.  I assume CNN is correct because it's more in line with previous elections.  More's the pity.  But there's no way to really know because it is a secret ballot after all.  What we do know is a heavily Hispanic district south of San Antonio voted Republican, and therefore the Hispanics there must have voted Republican, the numbers don't add up otherwise.  Are there big differences between Virginia Hispanics and Texas Hispanics?  Maybe.  Or maybe Fox is right and CNN is lying. . .

I finished the Emi, Saki and Momoko routes of Koikari.  That leaves the twins and the teacher, the least appealing characters in the game.  I was trying to find a way to date Emi and Hasumi together but apparently that only appears in a fandisc sequel which hasn't been translated yet.  *sigh*