You’re what bibliophiles like to call Goldilockian.

The chick lit is a breeze, but you’re slightly concerned the content is dulling your sharp wits.

But when you try to embrace your bookishness, Ulysses loses you at “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan.”

Time to find something in the middle, a book that’s smart yet doesn’t require a Ph.D. in Latin.

Why not try satire on for size? A new work from George Saunders, whom you may know from Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, just hit the shelves. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil is an allegorical novella that tells the story of power and justice via the fantastical, mixed-up citizens of Inner and Outer Horner and their neighbors of Greater Keller. You’ll meet many characters along the way: Carol; Cal; their son, Little Andy; President Rick; his daughter, Dale; and, of course, bitter Phil and his Special Friends.

It’s entertaining, imaginative, and as intellectually stimulating as you’d like to make it — it’s up to your powers of interpretation.

So no matter what, this book will fit juuuuuust right.

Available online at amazon.com or your local bookstore.