Father Brown was a great respite while I was locked in solitary last year as a political prisoner of Iowa Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen and her brother 4th District Chief Judge Jeff Larson. As a lion's paw she named every first degree blood relation except her brother to the Iowa House today - disgusting.

For some reason I could only read a chapter at a time - the stories exhausted the mind. Not sure if it was Chesterton's unique prose or the ripples of thought it set off.