The ending is highly improbable, at the very least.

News reporting suggests that some of the cardinals watched Conclave before they were sequestered. If the reporting is to be believed, they generally found it interesting.

As promised, I'm reporting my progress on the SW summer sale for the first week. 

Same here.

I'm sad to say, Three Men in a Boat was a DNF for me. It started out well with that typical Brit humor that I love but it quickly became repetitive and I couldn't finish.

I did finish White Lilac by Rosamunde Bott who is a BookTuber. I had been looking for book recommendation because I was in a reading rut. I came across her channel and gave it a try. It was an easy read. I thought it had an element of time travel, but it didn't. Instead, a woman becomes fascinated by a portrait of a woman who lived in the late 19th century. Through the course of the book, we find out about her life, but all the characters stay firmly on their side of time. Some of it was predictable, but the ending was not. Anyway, it got me out of my rut and on to Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart.

Audiobooking The Domestic Revolution by Ruth Goodman about the huge cultural changes produced by the household and factory conversion from wood to coal for cooking, heat and power generation.

Just finished two ARCS of memoirs: Daughters of Palestine by Leyla King and Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy. Loved them both. Gave me much food for thought. I'd read Roy's first novel, God of Small Things, when it had come out nearly 30 yrs ago and loved it, so it was great to read about the lead up to it (and beyond).