What is everyone reading at the moment?

I wanted to read something about France to go with my foray into Martin de Candre soaps, so I picked up Robert Louis Stevenson's An Inland Voyage. It's Stevenson's first book, published in 1878, about his canoe trip on the rivers of Belgium and France. He was only twenty-six years old when he set sail (yes, his canoe had a sail!). After his adventure, he wrote the book to raise enough money to propose marriage to the woman he loved. (It would take at least one, maybe two more books to win her heart.) I'm only a few pages in, and so far he's said nothing about shaving, but I've learned a lot about locks, canals, and inns. Good fun.


    

Remember a great review on Ohio by NPR.

An extraordinary novel based on the life of the author’s great-grandfather.
I particularly enjoyed the author’s writing style.

I wanted to read something about France to go with my foray into Martin de Candre soaps, so I picked up Robert Louis Stevenson's An Inland Voyage. It's Stevenson's first book, published in 1878, about his canoe trip on the rivers of Belgium and France. He was only twenty-six years old when he set sail (yes, his canoe had a sail!). After his adventure, he wrote the book to raise enough money to propose marriage to the woman he loved. (It would take at least one, maybe two more books to win her heart.) I'm only a few pages in, and so far he's said nothing about shaving, but I've learned a lot about locks, canals, and inns. Good fun.


    

That's a really nice book. I like RLS's prose. It's usually paired with 'Travels with a donkey', which is also a fun read.

I finished 'The Lonely Land' (which was a good book) and was thinking about what to read next when I picked this up:



Which seems appropriate as we just bought a house here in PNW and I have been painting and renovating it for the last few weeks. We move in next weekend. Fun (and tiring) times!

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton.  This ode to fishing includes additional chapters written by Charles Cotton, another great student of angling.
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Rereading Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe

After watching the Vienna Blood series on Amazon, I decided to read the next book in the series.  It was a good read and I am hoping that there will be a season two of the series on Amazon as this would be the next one filmed.

Andrzej Sapkowski: The Witcher 1 / The Last Wish

I subscribed to Audible and have become a fan of being able to listen to a book while I relax. A friend turned me on to Preston & Child's Pendergast series. I finished "Cabinet of Curiosities" a few days ago and just started "Crooked River". The mysteries are way out there but I like the protagonist.