Fiction

i used kindle unlimited to download a dreadful regency romance novel that i read in one evening. It's the equivalent of scribbling all over your cortex and i recommend it for surcease from pain.

I'm working my way through a collection of early Maigret novels. These tend to sprawl a bit, unlike his later terse, compact style. He's one of my favorite writers and I like to reread him every 25 or 30 years.

I'm also reading Frank Herbert's Dune cycle. I read Dune back in the day but not the sequels. I guess i never realized the degree to which Herbert was introducing his political ideas into his novels. Some of them are not very nice. I'm now starting God Emperor of Dune and the weirdness has red lined