Not sure I'm so much as reading it but... Tower of Fools, I think it's called. By the same guy that wrote the Witcher stuff they made the games about. I haven't played them but I've heard they were good.

It's sat, so far, about 6 months on my nightstand. I finally picked it up, read the intro, and set it back down for a week. Just the other day I made it through the first 2 chapters.

Honestly, I was skimming towards the end. He uses a lot of ecclesiastical terminology and I wasn't interested in looking them up. Haven't gone back to it in a few days now.

A sad state of affairs for one who used to be a voracious reader and always enjoyed expanding my vocabulary. I just can't seem to get in a comfortable mental state anymore. I just want to turn my brain off with a game or gorge on doom scrolling.

I used to finish a few books a month but lately I can't even finish an article.