We're going to re-boot the reading list next week. Barnes & Nobel and Google's affiliates program are parting ways so the buy-book links will no longer be good as of the 9th. I haven't decided if I want to move to B&N's new selling service (I am personally connected to B&N for now because I use a nook but all the books can be purchased from any book seller, as far as I know) or get involved with another one, or none of the above. So the easiest solution is simply to delete all the books that link back to B&N through Google and let the list re-fill itself with new books over time. Free books will continue to be linked to gutenberg.org (or another source as appropriate); the others possibly to a bookseller or possibly to a good review, whatever. We shall see.
Meanwhile, here are a few short pieces that are well worth a look. Via gutenberg.org, Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, the story that inspired the terrific movie starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine, and The Real Dope, a Ring Lardner yarn about a hapless doughboy in France during WWI; from Outside Online, The Storm, Sebastian Junger's story that became The Perfect Storm, and from Esquire, The Perfect Fire, by Sean Flynn.
They're all free reads. Lie back and chill.
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