Sometimes the best way to get back on the proverbial horse is to read something small and satisfying that can be finished very quickly, and that's exactly what I did with Train Dreams. It was succinct and lovely and the perfect thing to get me back in the groove of reading. Immediately upon finishing and re-shelving it I picked up a 400 page novel so I think I'm officially back.

This is also the perfect novella for when you're in a 'There Will Be Blood' kind of mood, which is always my mood when it's hot and sunny.