( A Night in the Lonesome October )

( Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves )

Sooooo behind on book reviews. These are substantially from my summer's flurry of book purchases concerning Scotland and Iceland, or by authors from the same.

( School of the Moon: the Highland Cattle-Raiding Tradition )

I was wandering through a bookstore today and discovered that there is a book titled "There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories". Of course I bought it. How can you not, with a title like that? <3 Russian literature. Also, dear fellow readers of "Anna Karenina", I am mostly done. How are y' ( Read more... )

( The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- But Some Don't )

( Ranger Confidential )

Two sets of paired reviews, a fictional and a factual book on each topic. I read them together.

( My Lady Judge: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland )

( Accidents in North American Mountaineering, 2009 and 2010 )

( Deep Trouble: True Stories and Their Lessons from Sea Kayaker Magazine )

( In the First Circle )