I'm reading Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock. He's a Canadian writer, go bought the book because I visited is home (museum) this summer. Obviously I haven't been reading much the last couple of months.

The Surgeon's Mate

If you're familiar with Patrick O'Brian's historical fiction set in the British navy during the Napoleonic wars, this is the seventh.

Stamp and go. Heave, heave her round, Heave hearty there!

Just finished "The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll" by Paul Spicer, almost finished with "Starman's Son" by Andre Norton. Not sure what I'll start next.

1922 was a creepy story! Haven't read Heaney since the 90's.

Make Me Commissioner: I Know What Is Wrong With Baseball & How To Fix It, by Jane Leavy. Great under the hood look at how too much analytics has led to paralysis by analysis, and then yet more analytics to overcome the paralysis.

Let the game fix itself as it has done for 150+ years rather than layering on the crap that has turned other sports into EVENTS for the gambling industry, TV broadcasters, and those with short-attention spans.

This post.

"I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft" by S. T. Joshi, 2010 (Hippocampus Press).

This new one from the guys that did The Expanse series.

No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell
Book by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

Chapter 12 on property and casualty insurance

Darth Plagueis By James Luceno