I’m Canadian. I probably average two books a week, mostly fiction, mostly spy/murder/mystery thrillers like the Reacher series, so basically literature popcorn. Fantasy and SF are OK but most have become too weird for me, but The Martian was a good read. It takes a lot for me to be drawn into a non-fiction book. Recent ones I’ve read are by David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Wager). I really liked the collections of essays by Stephen Jay Gould on evolution, read all of them, RIP. Darwin, Thoreau, Emerson have all had their place in the past but now I’m not as interested, probably because I’m retired and just want to read for entertainment, not enlightenment. I tried reading a few books about Donald Trump, but they are way too depressing for me. I read a lot of the classics like Dickens, Shakespeare, Camus, Hesse when I was younger and tried the Russians but couldn’t get into them. I started War and Peace at least three times, including one winter when I had no electricity, and just couldn’t do it.

You’re just being mean.