I’m reading The Incredible Mets by Maury Allen and The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
MEEP! Mixed up Kon Tiki with The Tigris Expedition:eek:
I plead some 25 years passing since I read Tigris. Guess I better pull Kon Tiki down off the shelf and make up for this oopsie.
I finished reading “The Unbearable Bassington” by Saki. I wasn’t terribly impressed by the short stories in “Beasts and Superbeasts”, but I didn’t have anything else on my tablet after I finished “Lord Jim” so I gave it a shot. Again, Saki’s world seemed to be divided into (a) chumps and (b) wiseasses making catty comments about chumps. I was surprised by the ending though, which seemed like a rather abrupt tonal shift.
At any rate, I think I’ve had more than enough Saki for a while.
Heinrich Böll’s “The Clown”. Amusing writer, ahead of his time, written in the 60s. I read something by him a long time ago (Irish Journal), and liked it, so I revisited. .
I started and finished “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London. It was short and sweet. Okay, maybe “sweet” is the wrong word to sue for a book full of scenes of dogs killing other dogs, dogs being worked to death, etc. But I can see why it’s a classic of the adventure genre.
I read about 60 pages worth of A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay before tossing it aside. It’s got all kinds of good reviews, even from Stephen King (!), but I just found it a hot mess.
Today I started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Reserving judgement, but I’m liking it more than I expected to.
I started The Princess and the Pirates by John Maddox Roberts yesterday. This is the 9th installment in his Decius Mettellus series sent in Rome during the rise of Julius Caesar. Decius is quite up to his usual snarkiness and I’m expecting a sarcastically good read.