[I sent this to New-Poetry but that list is uninterested in literature]:
I am reading or have recently read the following items:
_Volcanoes_, Alwyn Scarth.
This is a refreshing look at the science of volcanoes. Many nice pictures
and diagrams. My favorite sentence from this book is "Volcanoes are
exciting." This is writing at its best: clear, succinct, and to the point.
Very good book about volcanoes.
_At Swim-Two-Birds_, Flann O'Brien.
I have read this book several times. It is my favorite book.
_The Third Policeman_, Flann O'Brien.
Of those books that I have read only once, this is my favorite book of that
class.
_Present Past/Past Present: A Personal Memoir_, Eugène Ionseco. Translated
by Helen R. Lane.
A very sad book.
_The Modern Ark: The Stories of Zoos, Past, Present, & Future_, Vicki Croke.
I have learned from this book that some captive chimpanzees eat their shit.
_The Perfect Storm_, Sebastian Unger.
This nonfiction book is an account of the Halloween Gale that harmed
several fishermen from Gloucester, MA. Of those nonfiction books about the
sea that I have read only once, it ranks highly. It is on the level of
Willard Bascomb's _Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface_.
or Raoul Graumont's _Handbook of Knots_.
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