Another Week... Another Brain Melting Book! (Weekly Reading Recap: May 10th)

Ajouté : 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]This week, I finished a book so unhinged, it left me staring at the wall for a little bit in silence. I'm also deep into a massive sci-fi epic, which I'll also talk about. And then also, I watched the Wthering Heights movie.

[00:00:19]Um, oh man, we've made it through another week, so it's time to put on the kettle, have a nice cup of tea, and talk about some books. It's time for a weekly recap.

[00:00:31]Hey everyone, I hope you've had a good week and that you've been reading some great books. My reading week has been uh interesting and in this video I'm going to be talking about what I just got finished reading, what I'm currently reading, and what I'm looking forward to reading. I'll also tell you about some of the book battles that we had over on the Discord and how they played out.

[00:00:51]I'll talk about the video games that I'm playing. Oh man, I'm playing a good video game at the moment. Oh, it reminds me of there is no anti-mimetics division. It reminds me of the SCP universe. Very mysterious. Very good.

[00:01:05]And then of course we will talk about the Wthering Heights movie that I watched with my wife and how it compared to the book. And then we'll update the top 10 watch list of 2026 to see if any of the movies that I watched this week made the list. But let's start off by talking about what I just got finished reading.

[00:01:24]This was pretty heavy. This was pretty heavy. Uh, Earthlings by Seaka Morata.

[00:01:30]And I apologize if I'm mispronouncing uh this author's name. I don't know how I could be, though. I don't think I am.

[00:01:38]So, uh, this one is absolutely wild.

[00:01:40]It's the story of a young girl called Natsuki who uh is growing up in Japan and she definitely sees herself as a bit of an outsider. She feels like she doesn't really belong to her family or even to this world really. And her parents to kind of exacerbate the problem very clearly prefer her older sister. Oh, the older sister. Oh, she's a darling. Oh, she's so talented. Oh, she's so funny. She's so smart. And so her only real companion in childhood is this little stuffed uh like plushy hedgehog thing called Potts. Uh he's this little guy on the front cover here.

[00:02:24]Uh not as cute as he looks. Anyway, Natsuki believes that Pots is a like an emissary from the planet Poppin Papia.

[00:02:33]And uh it's this little fantasy world that she's kind of carved out for herself in order to deal with the isolation that she feels. Every summer, the family goes up to this beautiful place in the forested mountains of Neano uh for their annual family reunion. And it's not just like a celebration of the family uh around them. It's also a time to remember their ancestors as well. Uh, and it's up here in the mountains that Natsuki spends time with her cousin, Yu.

[00:03:04]The two of them are roughly around the same age, and they're both kind of like kindred spirits. They they they both feel like outsiders. And so together, they create this shared fantasy that they It's not just that they feel like outsiders, but actually they are from this other world. They're both aliens and one day they're going to see a spaceship come down. And when this spaceship comes down, it's going to take them home to Poppin Papia, uh, where they're going to be welcomed back by their own people. And then they're going to feel like they're in their own society, their own community, and they just can't wait for this day. And and this kind of feeling of being an outsider is something that follows her throughout her life. Only the very early stages of the book are dedicated to her childhood. Um, I I'd say most of the book is when we see Natsuki as an old not an older woman, a a young woman and and still she's trying to keep up the appearances of a normal life mostly to avoid the constant questions from her family and all of the societal pressures that she doesn't feel the need to fulfill. Uh, she's supposed to be doing these certain things in her life. She's supposed to have children. She's supposed to fit into this shape that everyone expects from her. And the author um actually has said that the central idea of the characters believing that they are aliens comes from her own childhood. Uh and she described an incident around the age of about 8 years old where she believed an alien had visited her in her bedroom and taken her to another planet. And over the course of her life, she says that she accumulated a group of other alien friends who helped her to cope with the feelings of not being able to fit in. um and and also helped her with some of the darker thoughts that she's carried with her throughout her life. I love that idea. I love the idea of collecting alien friends. I think that's I think that's a really that's a nice thing. In this book, uh Natsuki and you kind of see the world around them as they use the terminology a a factory. They don't call it earth. They they call it the factory. Um, and it's a basically a place where you're expected to produce labor, consume the labor of others, and then produce babies or units uh to continue the production line so that they can also uh produce. Um they believe that everyone around them has been brainwashed into becoming drones and anyone who steps outside of the boundaries of what is acceptable becomes a threat to the factory and the factory has one job and that is to sustain itself and to get rid of anything which might negatively impact the factory.

[00:05:47]It's about conformity basically. Uh and so they try and appear as though they're assimilating without actually going along with what's expected. But really, again, they're just waiting for the day that the spaceship arrives and takes them back home. Um, like I've got to say, although on the surface this might sound like, you know, kind of like a cute coming of age story, uh, it is absolutely not that. It's the opposite of that, I would say. Uh, I'm not going to spoil anything, but I I need you to know some things about what this book contains because otherwise you might pick this book up on like a false pretense and then you read it and you're horrified and deeply scarred and then you go, "The bloody paperback journeys made me think this was going to be cute." So, this book contains sexual assault, uh, also sexual assault of minors, uh, graphic murder scenes, cannibalism.

[00:06:45]Like I say, it's it's pretty unhinged.

[00:06:47]Uh, and it's funny, you know, because every book that I read that's either written by a Japanese author or set in Japan, it always seems to be kind of like surreal that the the tone is uh is surreal and always it carries a heavy theme of of isolation. Always always the the protagonist is feeling like an outsider. Um, and on one hand, being an outsider is something that I can probably relate to. Uh, I'm I'm sure that most people can relate to it to some degree, but in Japanese fiction, it often feels like this is an all-encompassing thing. And I just I just find that to be really interesting.

[00:07:34]I mean, you've got Asamu Desai, Heruki, Marakami, uh, now Saiaka Morata. they they all seem to fall into this pattern of writing about alienation and isolation uh and and use surrealism uh to show that experience. And I don't know what it is. Is it is it something that is especially prevalent in Japanese culture? Is there just much more pressure to conform there? Is it a stylistic thing? Is it just me? I is it just the the type of Japanese literature that that reaches me is because of the books that I'm drawn to? Uh m maybe there's this whole spectrum of Japanese literature literature that I've never heard of and I and I just don't pick up that's much more uplifting. Um so yeah, I I I don't I I don't know what it is, but it's just a pattern that I noticed.

[00:08:30]So, if anyone has any kind of information about that, uh that I I find that really interesting. As far as how much I enjoyed this book, uh the beginning really interested me. I liked the premise. I like the themes, but for me, and again, this is just something that is not to my taste, I guess. Uh it got so surreal. I've always had a problem with surrealism because I I I I'm probably quite literal minded. Uh and so when something becomes really offthe-wall crazy, like what is going on? You know, I'm struggling to keep track of even what's happening here. Uh yeah, I just I I just struggle with that. And because of that, I don't think this book was really designed for me as a reader. I know a lot of people are absolutely going to love this. Uh especially if you're someone who thinks, you know, the more unhinged the the the better. Uh but for me, the crazier things got the less shocking it became because I almost became numb to it. You know, it got so wild that it started to feel cartoonish and so it just didn't have the impact on me that it I I think it would have on other people. Don't get me wrong, like there's five or six things that happen in this book which are absolutely shocking. And I did like the way the kind of like detached way that the story is told because it lets us understand the psyche of the protagonist a little more. I think it also adds a little bit of humor to the darkness in places and I thought that that worked really well.

[00:10:07]Um, but overall I I I can't say that I loved this book. And if you're thinking about reading it, I would definitely recommend preparing yourself for some really dark and really gross stuff. Like not dark and gross in a kind of like edgy way, but but just like pretty heavy stuff, man. There was definitely a couple of scenes that I really liked.

[00:10:28]I'm not going to tell you anything that happens obviously, but um there there are some scenes where we just get some flashbacks that are distorted by childhood understanding told through the lens of fantastical thinking. And I thought that uh those were some of the most impactful moments in the book. I really like those. I thought the ideas were strong and uh I think they're going to be probably quite relatable to anyone who's ever felt like an out andout outsider. But once the train started to come off of the rails a little bit, I felt like I was being dragged behind the train rather than sitting inside the train. Do you know what I mean? So, what have I been reading? Uh, so I started The Children of Time by AdrienChaikovski. I'm about 25% of the way through this one. I'm really enjoying it so far. For those of you that uh don't know, the story is set in the distant future after Earth has been, you know, Earth is is dead basically. Uh and the last remnants of humanity are traveling through space on a massive generation ship called the Gilgamesh.

[00:11:33]And they're searching for a new world that they can call home. In this story, long ago, humanity terraformed several planets as part of this grand plan. And they sent out these primates infected with a special virus that is designed to accelerate evolution. And the idea was that by the time that the humans arrived, they they would be greeted by this fully developed society very similar to our own. Um and and these other humans would be there waiting for them. But something went wrong. I'm not going to say what.

[00:12:07]And instead of the primates, what actually is there is a completely different species that began evolving rapidly under the influence of this virus. And now by the time that humanity reaches the planet, uh everything is different from what they expected. At least that is what I anticipate will happen because at the stage of the book that I'm at right now, uh humans haven't actually landed on the planet right now.

[00:12:36]At this stage, the book is jumping between two perspectives. You've got the humans that are aboard the Gilgamesh, and then uh the other side of the story is the emerging civilization on this planet. And the way that evolution is portrayed, I think, is probably one of the most interesting parts of the book so far. You see it begin right from the introduction of the virus. And the creatures start understanding and becoming aware of things that they never really noticed before. New ways of doing things, new ways of mating. And what starts as this kind of like slow change gradually picks up speed in this like what I consider to be this really interesting way called the Gilgamesh. Uh we pretty much stick with the same characters throughout. Uh, and what happens is that every so often the the characters are entering into cryosleep and so that in itself is is really fascinating to read about as well because it's kind of like creating this weird time like it's kind of playing with time in a really weird way where it it could be that hundreds and hundreds of years have passed but for the characters it's just feels like the next day. So yeah, that's that's a lot of fun to read about. Something I didn't really realize until I guess I just reading this book is, and I just noticed it, that how much I like it when cryosleep is involved in a sci-fi story. I've read a few books now where they kind of go into these cryo chambers and, you know, we see how what's happened during the time that they've been asleep. And yeah, I I always find that really interesting. The one downside I would say about this book so far is that as of yet, and obviously there's still time to turn this around, but as of yet, I don't really feel very connected to the characters, you know, and the writing style that Adrien Chakovsky has uh makes me think that actually that's not going to change. Uh that's normally quite a big issue for me in uh in fiction. If I don't care about the characters, then it's sort of harder for me to get invested in the plot and what happens to them. With that said, though, I I think that's pretty common with sci-fi, right? It's it's more focused on the ideas and and the core concepts very often, uh, but a little bit weaker with the character-driven stuff. Um, yeah, it's not always the case, but very often that happens in sci-fi is that, you know, I I feel like sci-fi authors are just they're nerds, you know, uh, which is a good thing. Uh, because they come up with these cool concepts that we've never thought about before. Uh, and so, yeah, I enjoy reading about it, but yeah, they just seem to be more focused on like, oh, what if this happened, you know, wouldn't this be cool? It's not a dealbreaker, though. But o overall uh I am liking it a lot. It's a big book as you can see, but I think I should get this finished by next Sunday. And uh next Sunday I'll let you know what I thought about it. So, what am I looking forward to reading? Oh man, I'm really looking forward to reading this one. Uh it's The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. I became aware of this book through the book channel Life on Books.

[00:15:52]uh they're always they're always singing this book's praises and I've heard so many great things about this book. So yeah, I'm really excited to finally start it. It's supposed to be this like massive epic crime thriller that follows the Mexican drug war from the inside. So you've got DEA agents, cartels, government corruption, all the kind of like gray areas in between. I mean, a lot of people say that it's one of the best modern crime novels that they've ever read, uh, with really sharp writing, interesting characters, all overlapping into one another's stories.

[00:16:30]A lot of you seem to get quite excited when I said that I was going to be reading this one, so hopefully it lives up to the hype. Uh, this is also part of a series as well, so if I like this one, no doubt I'll dive into the sequel, which I think is called Cartel. Also, I'm going to get started with Devil in the White City by Eric Len. Uh this is the book that the PBJ uh book club decided that we would be reading together. Uh this is a non-fiction kind of like true crime serial killer book uh set in 1893 during Chicago's World Fair.

[00:17:08]And it kind of follows again it's like a dual narrative. So it follows the this um architect I forgot the word architect there for a moment. Oh no.

[00:17:20]It follows this architect who is building this kind of modern miracle of architecture where they're trying to compete with the last World Fair which uh is one of the most famous world fairs in history in Paris where they built the Eiffel Tower.

[00:17:37]Difficult difficult to beat that you know I wouldn't want to follow the Eiffel Tower if I was an architect. But anyway, so half of it is about the construction of the white city in Chicago and the other uh side of it is this kind of like Jack the Ripper Sweeney Todd kind of character who is taking advantage of all of the tourists who are coming into town, all of the families that are moving in to construct the White City and uh you know doing a little bit of that. So it' be very interested to read that. If that sounds interesting to you, then you're welcome to join us. These are the dates that we're going to be reading and talking about each of the parts of this book. So yeah, please do join us if you want to be part of a book club. And if you'd like to keep up to date with my reviews, then you can follow me on Goodreads, which is the same name as this channel, Paperback Journey. So what is the movie that I watched? Well, I already let you know that I finally saw the new Wthering Heights movie. And so I'm pretty new to Emily Bronte's classic Wthering Heights. Uh it's one of those books that I'd always wanted to get around to reading and I finally did earlier this year. Partly because of the release of the movie. I knew that I was going to see the movie and so I thought, look, it's now or never. You got to read the book. So I guess I should be thankful to the film for at least motivating me to finally pick the book up. and and and I loved it, by the way.

[00:19:07]It's one of the best things that I've read this year. Uh and honestly, one of the best things that I've read full stop. It's great. Uh the characters are totally unlike anything that I was expecting. I kind of thought it was going to be this dark romance about forbidden love. And uh it's not that at all. It's it's not that at all. The the the book is not. Uh the movie is exactly that. The book is more about like shared trauma, uh, codependency, obsession, and the way that two people can kind of cling to each other in this really destructive way. And it makes you care about characters very deeply that you don't necessarily like, and I think that that's such a rare and impressive thing.

[00:19:50]If you can make me care about bad people while also knowing in my mind like I would hate these people if I met them, uh, that's amazing. Yeah, this movie had none of that, by the way. Uh, I I I knew that it was going to be controversial from the trailer. Uh, the the stylistic choices I thought were interesting.

[00:20:09]You've got Charlie XCX that's doing the soundtrack.

[00:20:14]The whole vibe of it was way different.

[00:20:16]And so I was a little bit skeptical going into it, but to be fair, um I I did keep an open mind because I, you know, I always think that not every adaptation needs to be beat for beat a faithful retelling of the source material and be the same exact same tone and the exact same dialogue, no changes, because otherwise just read the book, you know. Um, so I I I was thinking to myself, well, maybe it'll be interesting. You know, if you want characters to look different and dress different and and live in this kind of ultra real, vibrant, colorful world, whereas the original is kind of dark and dreary. I think that's all right. And I'll even go so far as to say that I liked the way the film looked. Uh, I I I and I did like the music. I I like the music. A lot of the songs in this movie uh I would listen to, no doubt. But what I think isn't okay is when the adaptation just completely misses the point of the of of the book. And by the way, if you if you like the movie, I'm I'm not having a go at you. Like I'm happy for you. You know, I'm I'm always jealous of people that enjoy something that I didn't really get anything out of. Um so yeah, I'm I'm definitely not having a go. I'm just talking about what I thought about the film. Uh so the the first thing that kind of stood out to me is that the film only covers the first I would yeah I would just say the first half of the book. The second half of the book completely gone like as as if it's just not important. The a whole half of the book. So this is really just an adaptation of the first half of Weathering Heights. And they're not releasing a part two or anything like that. Oh man, I hope they're not releasing a part two. Obviously, I'm going to avoid spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen the movie or read the book.

[00:22:04]And I I'm I'm not going to get into anything specific that happens, but for some reason, they also decided to get rid of about half of the characters from the book. And and also they changed they kind of combined a couple of uh characters as well. For example, uh Cathy's father is kind of a mixture of the characters of her father and her brother. Uh I I in the book I I'd say her father is he's kind of an all right guy really. Uh whereas her brother is pretty awful, but in the movie we get this strange blended version of those two characters inside of uh Martin Cloon. And I feel like Martin Clones was pretty good in the movie actually. But I think that what makes this adaptation feel so weird is that the tone comes from a totally different universe than the book. I think I read an interview where the director said that Wthering Heights was her favorite book growing up and that she just used to read it over and over again uh until the spine was battered. And I just thought to myself like like did did you read it? you know, did did you really read it? And again, I'm not judging what other people take away from the book or what they connect with, but it's just so bizarre to me that this movie is is just like kind of sexy and spicy, you know? It's really focused on how sexy and hot everything is, especially Heathcliffe. Like, he is, to use a a term that my mom would use, a dreamboat. It feels like 50 Shades of Gray, you know, people sting sticking their fingers in each other's mouths, heavy breathing, getting pushed up against the walls, getting really freaky at funerals. Someone in the very very very early on, like the opening scene basically, a an unnamed character gets hanged uh in the very first scene and um and then everyone just starts making out to pop music, you know, and the whole time I'm sitting there thinking, is this Wthering Heights? I don't remember the part where Heathcliffe stuck his fingers inside Cathy's mouth. I don't remember it. Also, in the book, Heath Cliffe is famously like monstrous. Uh, a and it's because of the way that he's brutalized and humiliated and twisted by his childhood.

[00:24:32]And so, he becomes this, you know, terrible guy. Really a bad bad guy. If you knew some of the stuff that he does, you'd go, "Oh, yeah. No, absolutely.

[00:24:41]We're all on the same page here. But in this film, boy's a hunk, you know? He he he we don't even spend that much time focusing on how he gets twisted up as a kid. He's just kind of like he's just this kind of like sexy underdog guy. And Kathy, I think, is portrayed maybe a little bit more accurately. Uh she's kind of a brat uh who wants Heath Cliffe while also pushing him away, you know. Oh, go away.

[00:25:06]Oh, come here. Go away. Come here. you know, so I I feel like maybe she's a little more accurately portrayed. Um that that side of her feels a little bit closer to the book, but Heath Cliffe, in my opinion, he gets off scot-free. He's he just seems like this underdog that you root for, that you fall in love with. Um like, wow, is he 6'5? Oh god, I bet he could definitely pick her up really easily, man. He's so sexy. Yeah, just totally unrecognizable. I don't know. Uh, but maybe it's because the book is so fresh in my mind. I only read it for the first time a couple of months ago and like I say, I absolutely loved it. But I just feel like in the same way that Frankenstein, uh, also starring Jacob Alli as well, um, felt like it totally missed the point of the book, this also felt like it totally missed the point of Weathering Heights. Uh, yeah. And speaking about movies that totally missed the point of the book, have you seen Animal Farm? By the way, I I I haven't seen it yet. Uh but on my stream the other day, we watched the trailer together. Oh man, I'm I'm going to lose my mind, guys. I in fact, what I'll do, I I'll show you a clip of my actual reaction that I had in the moment. And yeah, I I think this is going to speak more than words.

[00:26:29]All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

[00:26:35]I hate That's the worst bit. I think that's the worst bit.

[00:26:41]I think that's the worst bit. I feel like I I I I that really I felt a physical pain when that just happened.

[00:26:51]Oh.

[00:26:55]Oh, I wasn't ready for that. That is the face of devastation. So, did Weathering Heights make it to the top 10 of 2026 that I've seen so far? Let's take a look at the list as it currently stands. And as you can see in the number 10 spot, we've got Send Help, The Smashing Machine, If I Had Legs, I'd kick you, The AI Doc, Predator: Badlands, I Swear, The Perfect Neighbor, Hamnit, Marty Supreme, and the best thing that I've seen so far this year, Project Hal Mary.

[00:27:24]And so, did Wthering Heights crack the top 10? Uh, no. Did Didn't you listen to anything I just said? So, yeah, let's talk a little bit about the stream. If you didn't know, this channel also has a kind of sister stream where we watch trailers, sometimes we talk about books, we play video games, just generally hang out on the weekend. Um, I I watched the Animal Farm trailer. I I you know, you you saw my reaction to it. Uh, I mean, I know it's only the trailer, but come on, man.

[00:27:58]And And by the way, this is directed by Andy Circus.

[00:28:02]I I love Andy Circus, but what were you thinking, brother? I don't know. I I I I'll watch it. I I'll I'll definitely watch it. Uh I'm not going to go to the cinema, though, to see it, but I will watch it when it becomes available on streaming. Um, other than watching that, uh, we we also looked at some stuff, uh, that is set in the Stanley Hotel. That was a lot of fun. Um, the Stanley Hotel, if you don't know, is the inspiration of, uh, The Shining. Stephen King stayed in the Stanley Hotel and he was inspired to write The Shining. I actually visited there as well, which was really nice.

[00:28:37]But yeah, we watched some kind of like interesting uh, facts about that. Also, uh we played uh Control, which is uh a video game on the PlayStation. And man, this game is it's a good one, man. It it's reminded me so much of There is no anti-mimetics division. If you've ever read that book, at this stage of the game, we've arrived at the Federal Bureau of Control, which is the secret government agency that investigates these anomalous objects which shouldn't be able to exist. paranormal events, places where reality doesn't really behave as it should. The entire game takes place inside of the bureau's headquarters, which is known as uh the oldest house. Uh which kind of looks like this brutalist government building. Uh and it's basically like this shifting nightmare. Uh yeah, I I I'm really liking it. It's funny because one of my favorite things about the game is the amount of law uh and history that the game contains. You're walking around this government building and you can find all these documents uh all these audio files and you know obviously we're all reading them together and it's kind of like building out a story. What do you call it? like emergent storytelling um where it's building it out from the center where you don't really know anything that's happening and then we're slowly putting together the picture of what this government agency is all about and some of the history of the agency and all that kind of thing, what's happening. Uh so yeah, it's a lot of fun and you know over on the stream I try to focus on more storytelling games. So, if you like that kind of thing and and if you're available on a Sunday, if you're available today, uh I'm going to go live. Normally, I go live on a Sunday at 100 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. However, West Ham United are playing today. It's a really massive game against Arsenal.

[00:30:37]If you don't know, Arsenal are very good and this season we are very not good and we need we need to try and get something out of this game. We really really I it seems highly unlikely. So, at the very start of the stream, you might see me a little bit depressed or you might see me completely exuberant. We're going to have to see. We're going to have to see.

[00:30:59]But today, this it's just a massive game, man. I know one of at least one of you is an Arsenal fan. Bill. Billy.

[00:31:06]Billy. Billy, please, mate. Please just give us this one. I know you need it, too. I know you're trying to win the league, but we're just trying to survive. Bill. Bill, come on. Come on, Bill. Do us a solid, brother. Uh, so what happened on the channel? Uh, oh, I released a 25K Q&A video uh on Friday.

[00:31:27]Uh, I still can't believe that this channel has hit 25,000 subscribers, and actually, I think it's creeping up to 28,000 now. Really, really mental. Um, I'm also going to be releasing an audio book narration of The Color Out of Space by HP Lovecraft. So, that's going to be coming out hopefully in the next couple of weeks or so. Uh, periodically I release these uh these like classic short stories over on Coffee Break Fiction. And, uh, like every month the top tier of the Patreon get to decide what short story I narrate. Um, and so yeah, this this month they chose The Color Out of Space. Really excited to read that one. never read it before. So, yeah, and and excited to perform it as well. That'll be good. And speaking of the Patreon, uh I'm just about to ask you the big question of the week. But before I do that, I want to take a moment to thank all of the Patreon members for supporting this channel. So, thank you so much to the cult members. I want to say a big thank you to the named men and extra extra special thank you to the card teds. Thanks to each and every one of you for supporting this channel.

[00:32:34]I I I really really appreciate it. Uh I I appreciate all of you. Anyway, if you if you just watch these videos, you know, I'm I'm really grateful. But the fact that people are uh supporting this channel financially, uh participating in the book club, just being just getting deeper into the community. Uh yeah, that that that just that just makes it a lot more fun. And so this is the big question of the week. I've been reading some uh pretty weird fiction recently. I don't know if you noticed. And so I want to know what is a book that you personally absolutely loved but you would never recommend to someone at work, right? A normal person, normal people. Do you know what I mean?

[00:33:21]Anyway, thanks so much for watching this video. If you want to come and hang out, uh, then we're going to be live on the Twitch. I'll put a link down below so that you can come and join us. I might be in a bad mood, in which case, please do your best to cheer me up. Uh, I might be over the moon and going crazy, in which case you might need to like bring me down a little bit because I might tire myself out. Anyway, happy Sunday and as always, happy reading.