In the Heart of the Sea was fantastic. One of the best nonfiction historical books I've ever read. It was right up my alley to begin with since I like adventures, ocean/sea/sailing stories, survival stories and desert island stories, but wow was this impressive and all the more so since it's a true story. I can't believe I'd never even heard of the story until the last few years, and I can't believe it took me this long to finally read it. It does get macabre near the end but hey, that's what really happened, and the book warns of it from the beginning. And now I want to visit Nantucket, as well as Henderson Island, heh. It's a shame I hear the film version isn't so good.
Next up is A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz and translated by Nicholas de Lange, with narration by Stefan Rudnicki who has quite a deep voice and an accent that sounds appropriate. The book is basically the memoir of the author as he grows up in Israel just as it's been formed, with very cultured but now lower-middle-class parents who relocated there from their home countries. The audiobook is only a blink-and-you'll-miss-it 23 hours and 52 minutes.
