On the three tickyboxes: these days I often find myself looking for something that doesn't make me think (because my brain is tired or stressed and the point of reading is to amuse/distract myself)...but it can't *entirely* not make me think because then it would be stupid and boring. Which is hard to look for in a new-to-me book. (Re-reading is often useful in this bucket, both because familiarity = less hard thinking required, and because I know what level of thinkiness & stressfulness a book I've already read will get me into.)