Are you like me? Have you struggled to find the motivation to read during the pandemic? You'd think a lockdown would be the perfect environment to make a dent in your TBR pile, but maybe it's been school changes and stress, changing jobs, moving across the country, changing jobs again, or maybe it's just the fear that your life is falling apart and will never get back to the way it was. Whatever the reason, maybe you've lacked a desire to read, instead choosing to rewatch old favorites like 30 Rock and Bob's Burgers and Guy's Grocery Games over and over again. Maybe you've tried to start a couple of books but you haven't made any progress in them. Maybe you're looking for a book to break you out of your reading funk. If so, Piranesi might be the book for you. It's fairly short, chunked into manageable chapters, and eminently readable. It's a great mix of metaphysical fantasy and mystery, without any exposition-heavy world-building to slow things down. A perfect book for reading while half-watching the baseball playoff games you're interested in but don't really care about. And, hopefully, a perfect book for reinvigorating the reader within you.