Couldn't decide on what to read after
The Hound of the Baskervilles, so I filled in the rest of today with some short stories I had on my Kindle.
Did wonders for my "books read" count (up to 20), but really dropped my pages/book average (down from ~400 to 357 pg/bk). My goal for the year is a page goal, so I don't mind counting short stories as books. Right now I am at the same # of books to date as last year, but have 2,400 more pages read.
- Jigsaw by Douglas Smith - A free from Amazon (long ago) sci-fi short about finding some ancient "wormhole capable" space ships.
- The Moon is Green by Fritz Leiber - I haven't read him before, but this was mentioned in a Wool thread (maybe at KB?) as being somewhat similar in concept, so I tried it out. It was good, if somewhat dated, and the similarities are definitely there. I was amused by the "need to destroy the commies" rhetoric while having "committees" that were mandatory/highly encouraged and the the fear that the characters had about being reported and sent down. You can certainly tell what stage the world was in when it was written.
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling - I really love this story, I should read the whole Jungle Book someday. My girls are a little young for it right now, but in a couple years I will need to read it to them.