The Devils 4/5 , If you are religious ( or religious and catholic) I’d pass Mostly about religious hysteria used for political ends by Cardinal Richelieu against a town that wanted to maintain its walls and hugonaut tolerance. Well done , could have toned down the sex and decadence and a better film. Also slight acting and tropes of the 70 that may be considered artsy. Not what was proffer in most reviews worth seeing.

Audiobook Middlemarch by George Elliot. I am glad I read Middlemarch as I can discuss it intelligently, it has the problems of being long winded, gossipy, and very prudish in an odd way. It is almost all the romances are so devoid of sex or attraction other than the most sublime form of amor sans eros, this does not have to be, sex and attraction can be implied as in Thackery's Vanity Fair. All the relations have no sexual energy. I find the characters are written for Elliot's convenience rather than having a life of their own. It should be read but it is far less than I expected, it suffers from the serialization and length making the editing of the unnecessary out of the volumes impossible. As I move through looking at the English novel, I think that this may be the most middling thing I have read.