Fiction

The nutritional value is pretty low, but you can't eat just one. I've been loafing on the deck all summer, reading the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. The writing improves as the series progresses and there was only one that I put down without finishing. I liked them better than I thought I would; no politics, no violence, no cloud of impending doom on the horizon.

Speaking of which, I'm also reading Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. This is a rather optimistic view of our response to AGW, which pushes it into the realm of fantasy, but it's an interesting read about the doings of a UN agency tasked with protecting the interests of future humans. They even have a black ops unit.

I'm also reading Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens memoir. I had hoped he would go on forever, like Noam Chomsky. The world is a poorer, less interesting place without him.