It’s funny what you said about, as you get older, not willing to devote time to novels that pander. When I was going through college, I can’t tell you how much time I wasted trudging through books that I thought I should read, whether because they were classics, or widely recognized as “worth” reading, etc. I think it was an exercise in intellectual insecurity, honestly.

Not that I’m more intellectually mature and/or now, but I’m a lot more impatient than I used to be. So yeah, totally understand your feelings there

Great… another book to add to READ ME. SLEEP IS FOR SISSIES stack.