The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club is the first and the most Dickensian of Dickens’s novels.
Diversions
Worth Reading: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson’s masterpiece defies easy categorization—not quite cyberpunk, certainly not science fiction, but much more than an historical novel. If you’re tempted to invest in bitcoins, read this first.
Worth Reading: The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The gold standard for swashbuckling adventure. If you haven’t already read it you might have thought that you probably should. You are right.
Worth Reading: In Love with Shakespeare
The Bard is an acquired taste; but like many acquired tastes, it’s worth the effort.
Worth Reading: The Years with Ross by James Thurber
A classic memoir from a wonderful writer about Harold Ross, the colorful founding editor of the New Yorker.
Worth Reading: Knickerbocker’s History of New York
One of America’s greatest early writers, underappreciated today, Washington Irving set the tone for irreverent American humor for the next two centuries with this engaging satire.
Learning to Swim in The Deep-End of the Pool
I, like my colleagues and probably many of you as well, have developed some go to moves and tricks to deal with learning new skills, “swimming pool, wall-hugging tactics,” so to speak. Only this time, they are keeping me safe while learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Worth Reading: A Christmas Carol
One of the best of Charles Dickens’ books and one of the best Christmas stories ever written, this is a must for any reader getting into the holiday spirit. You don’t have to be religious, you just have to believe it is possible for any of us to be a little better than we are.
Worth Reading
If you enjoy reading for its own sake, rather than as just a tool for work or study, you probably have a handful of books that are like old friends that you come back to again and again. Worth Reading is a blog for sharing some of my favorite books.
Veterans Day Bomber Crew Run
To celebrate Veterans day, our sister publication is taking to the skies in Bomber Crew, a fun new game that celebrates and simulates the achievements of the brave soldiers of the Army Air Corps of World War II.