Back from Vacation

I'm back from two weeks of vacation which allowed me to do some reading (though never enough) that I had intended to do for the last number of months. Other than a couple of books I read for pleasure, I'm going to post brief book reviews in the future on more relevant topics to this forum. Before I do that though - let me tell you in an unrelated subject - I really enjoyed Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea on the sinking in 1820 of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. A great read!