Reading Update

Dune by Frank Herbert

I liked the first half or two-thirds of this book a lot more than the second. After the timeskip, the Fremens won many battles with Paul leading them, but I didn’t care about any of it or the murdered-offscreen-son. In contrast, I enjoyed the politics that House Atreides and Paul had to deal with as they settled into Arakkis, with poor doomed Duke Leto and the ever-sharp Jessica. The Litany Against Fear was appropriately badass in context. Might read the sequels sometime, IDK.

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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders

A quick non-fiction read about the human digestive system (mostly the intestines), with charming illustrations (like this one). I should read more books about human biology, this was fun! Learned about the mechanisms behind some food intolerances, various gut bacteria, the connection between our gut and our brain, and so on.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

One of those books that I may have previously read in hand-sized-paperback-form as a kid, my memory is very unclear - all I remembered was her cousins being shit to her and then the surprise wife that will not help us later.

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