Malleus

While I've been recovering from my aforementioned bicycle wreck I have been reading quite a bit more. I jumped back into the Warhammer 40K Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnet and finished Malleus pretty quickly. It was a fun read and I really appreciate how well Dan Abnet can put the reader in this crazy galaxy. I would say universe but galaxy seems more fiting since the Warhammer 40K "universe" is mainly contained in one. My favorite thing about reading a Warhammer 40K book is that the author is able to focus more on the narrative than world building since there have been so many books establishing the lore.

For every Warhammer 40K book with a bent spine on my bookshelf there are five other books I feel I should read. I tend to spend half my time either enjoying the book I'm currently reading or wishing I was reading something a bit more constructive that had a bit more "merit". I don't have a formal definition of merit here but what I'm getting at is that Malleus sure isn't a Harvard Classic. Sometimes I feel so focused on efficiency and what I ought to be doing that I find it hard to realize that time enjoyed reading is time well spent.