A collection of enjoyable stories by Mark Twain. I have only previously read his most famous works, and that many years ago.
As the foreword alludes, these stories get darker as you go further into the collection. I enjoyed the lighter ones more but the darker ones did make me think.
Strangely, this book did not have an ISBN number in it.
A very nice read about Paul and Emily Keller traveling the Great Loop on their boat.
I was fortunate to be part of a guided tour of the Sail, Power, and Steam Museum in Rockland, ME that was guided by Captain Jim. Now about 6 months later I finished his book in one day.
Needless to say it is a great read if you love stories about boating.
I probably read this book back in middle school as I used to read a ton of Star Wars and Star Trek books back then. Anyways, now I have read it again.
I believe I read a while back that the new Star Wars movies have removed all of the Expanded Universe books from canon. So it was a little weird to be reading this book and be thinking all along that it isn't really "true." Of course it is fiction, but now it is like discarded fiction. Still a quick enjoyable read though.
This was a nice read about memories and memorization techniques. The story of the author is woven in pretty well and my interest was held throughout. He described the techniques used in a good amount of detail--enough to understand but not so specific as to get boring.
Overall I now know a little more about the topic and it was also an interesting story.
I played the version available on F-Droid. On my third attempt I achieved a 2048 block. The statistics say that I have played for 0.92 hours.
I see that 5x5 grids and larger are available too so I may try that out sometime.
A nice collection of essays or short stories, pretty funny throughout. The last one about smoking drags on for a while but is still good.
This was the vehicle that I most often drove to high school in. It had an anemic motor that guzzled gasoline, something like 120 horsepower and 10mpg. I believe the motor was replaced once when I was really young too.
Memorable notes:
I sent my friend Simon a link to a motorcycle on Craigslist that I really liked, and he said, "No way, that's exactly the sort of bike I'm looking for. If you don't buy it I will." So I bought it! My friend and coworker Steve came out with me in my car to a country house SW of Fargo and I drove it back.
Simon found his own (same model, different color) to buy so we had matching rides. I remember tearing it up around Star Lake and on the big sweepers of the road north of Dent.
I bought this motorcycle via Craigslist in the spring of 2011. As my first motorcycle it was a poor choice to learn on but I loved it. Simon and Parker came with me to look at it, Parker to test drive it and Simon for his people skills. I remember the ridiculously loud exhaust that we could hear as Parker accelerated down a street while out of sight. For $1500 followed Parker back to my apartment garage where he parked it and I waited for warmer weather to try it out.
