Recent reads: Hellboy and Temeraire

Hellboy picture from http://new.assets.thequietus.com.

After a while of reading geeky books, I often feel the need to read something for my educated mind lest it become squishy and falls off. Out. Down?

This is the tale of how I got to that point (currently reading Persian Fire by Tom Holland – about the Persian Wars and how the divide between East and West began).