All Things Considered by GK Chesterton

A grab bag of essays. Chesterton is an excellent essayist with a gift for wit. Unfortunately his sparkling wit that takes an argument and renders it ridiculous by following its corollaries down rabbit holes of unreason can often get convoluted and confusing... at least they do so when they're read on an iPhone in bars and parks at haphazard times as I did.

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

How did this book not render itself forgotten with time's passage? Read pretty much anything else by any other Russian writer who has survived time's passage.

Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

Pabulum, but good pabulum.

Age of Ultron by Brian Michael Bendis

Even for a superhero comic, pretty damn ordinary.

To Have and To Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

Oh Ernest. So many sentences. So short.

From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple

Excellent, wonderful travel writer. Elegant English. Interesting subject matter. Marred somewhat by being too long and covered too many out of the way places and too many kooky characters that will never really be remembered. Best when when dealing with Eastern Christianity's influence on Islam and the Maronites in Lebanon.

Headhunters by Jo Nesbo

Fast-paced, simple Norwegian crime thriller.