I suppose this was the perfect story for a captive audience, as I listened to it every day while in a hospital. It was interesting enough that I wanted to return every time that I was able to lie down and rest. And because I listened to the audiobook and because I was always very tired, it often lulled me to sleep. But when I got home again, I just couldn’t muster any desire to read. Once again, I went to the Internet and found a summary of all the chapters to know how the story ended. And that satisfied me just fine. I even read the summary of the following two books and have no desire to actually tackle them. I know enough and will be just fine watching the TV adaptation when it arrives. This has been the state of my reading in these last few months of 2022: starting a story but taking a shortcut to the end.