Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Kill Devil Hills: a modern dilemma; what boat?; books read



        You are in mid-flight.  The seat belt sign is lit.  Your watch taps your wrist and tells you to stand.

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        John has bought the boat above but doesn’t know the designer and/or class.  She is 18.5’ long, 6’2” beam, with a rounded stern.  If you know, please email me and I’ll pass the information on.
        Whatever she is, she is pretty and should sail well.

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        Just over a fifth of the books I read January—June of this year have been by Patrick O’Brian.  At this rate I’ll have read all the Aubrey/Maturin novels by this time next year.

            FAUST   Goethe
            GERONTIUS   James Hamilton-Paterson
            THE SEA AND THE SILENCE   Peter Cunningham
            MOZART’S JOURNEY TO PRAGUE   Eduard Mörike
            GUANTANAMO DIARY   Mohamedou Ould Slahi
            POST CAPTAIN   Patrick O’Brian
            NEW YORK TIMES COMPLETE CIVIL WAR
            H.M.S. SURPRISE   Patrick O’Brian
            VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE   Joshua Slocum
            THE HUNTERS   James Salter
            CONTEMPT  Alberto Moravia
            THE MAURITIUS COMMAND   Patrick O’Brian
            THE LOST CITY OF Z   David Grann
            SOUTH SEAS VAGABONDS  John Wray
            THE ART FORGER   B.A. Shapiro
            IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS  Erik Larson
            THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Vol. 1
                    Edward Gibbon
            DESOLATION ISLAND   Patrick O’Brian
            CHANCE   Joseph Conrad
            FIRE IN THE HOLE   Elmore Leonard
            THE FORTUNES OF WAR   Patrick O’Brian
            BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY   Mark Harris
            THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS  Jose Saramago
            DAVID COPPERFIELD  Charles Dickens
            YOUNGER NEXT YEAR  Crowley/Lodge
            THE SURGEON’S MATE  Patrick O’Brian
            CONGO   David Van Reybrouck
            A SPORT AND A PASTIME  James Salter
            HEART OF DARKNESS   Joseph Conrad