Reading list from my Cruise:
A Collection of Short Stories and No One Writes to the Colonel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
We were stopping in his homeland (Colombia) on the cruise and I have never read the Nobel winner so I decided to do so. Very good writing and some intriguing characters and stories but a bit too morose for my mood these days.
A Brief History of Earth, Andrew H. Knoll
In 8 chapters, geologist Knoll takes us from the Big Bang to the Anthropocene. Does a good job of giving a high level look at our world's history and our place in it.
Hadrian's Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy
Nice overview history of the Roman wall that runs across Northern England. Cute anecdote about the author scratching out the "H" in "Hadrian" in a book when he was a kid so it would be "Adrian's Wall".
The End of Everything, Katie Mack
A cosmologist looks at various ways the universe could end and, in doing so, gives a good review of various current theories and speculations about it origins and nature. Good pop science in the vein of Sagan or Degrasse Tyson.