Take a look, it's in a book: Summer reading

Summer is nigh, which, among other things, means many of us will be doing more leisure reading -- whether we're at the beach, at home in our makeshift "clean rooms," or while perched on our rooftops, rifles in hand, ready to pick off reckless quarantine-violators looters peaceful protesters if they try to touch our stuff.

So what are we planning to read this summer?

I recently finished the first installment of Frank Herbert's Dune series. It's interesting enough, but being more of a Philip K. Dick man (heh), I found it to not really be in my sci-fi wheelhouse.

I'm now reading:

- James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. I understand that it's quite different from the (very excellent) Michael Mann film of the 1990s starring Daniel Day Lewis in that Hawk-eye fights Magua while dressed as a bear.

- An entry into the "self-proclaimed whistleblower tell-all"/intersectional score-settling-memoir genre called Noncompliant by Carmen Segarra, a one-time staffer at the New York Fed. Thus far, I can only recommend it if you're interested in banking compliance or are super into lengthy descriptions of conference-room meetings.

Up next: 

- Means of Ascent, Book Two of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson cycle.

- Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Dream Hunters.

- A book on game theory.