Books I read in 2020

Ranger's Apprentice: Ruins of Gorlan, by John Flanagan
Jinxers, by Sabrina Chase
Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
The Sling and the Stone, by Thomas X. Hammes *, **
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde **
And I Was There: Breaking the Secrets - Pearl Harbor and Midway, by Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton USN (Ret) *
Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens
A Diversity of Creatures, by Rudyard Kipling 
Over the Top: By An American Who Went, by Arthur Guy Empey 
Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy Sayers
Whose Body, by Dorothy Sayers
Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy Sayers
Unnatural Death, by Dorothy Sayers
Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, by Dorothy Sayers
Strong Poison, by Dorothy Sayers
The Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy Sayers
Have His Carcase, by Dorothy Sayers
Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers
Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers
Busman's Honeymoon, by Dorothy Sayers
The Wallet of Kai Lung, by Ernest Bramah
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, compiled by Hamilton Wright Mabie for The Parents' Institute, Inc., 1907
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Story of the Treasure Seekers, by Edith Nesbit
The Wouldbegoods, by Edith Nesbit
The New Treasure Seekers, by Edith Nesbit
House of Arden, by Edith Nesbit
Harding's Luck, by Edith Nesbit
The Railway Children, by Edith Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle, by Edith Nesbit
The Magic City, by Edith Nesbit
The Wonderful Garden, by Edith Nesbit
Wet Magic, by Edith Nesbit
Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet, by Edith Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet, by Edith Nesbit
The Book of Dragons, by Edith Nesbit
The Magic World, by Edith Nesbit
Man and Maid, by Edith Nesbit
The Red House, by Edith Nesbit
Means to Message: A Treatise on Truth, by Stanley L. Jaki *

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* Nonfiction
** NOT Recommended!

Android Through-the-Looking-Glass Reader App

I got the Kindle reader app for my Samsung Galaxy 4 tablet.  Because I have that with me at work. 

Cons:  Harder to turn the page with your left hand. Battery goes down faster than Kindle Keyboard e-reader. If there's a built-in dictionary I haven't figured out how to use it. Harder to mark passages.  And so on.

Pros:  Well, it's there, so I can pick up that hard slog through Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiment  during lunch and make some progress. 

Or can I???

The Android Kindle reader app has this little thing that tells you how much longer it is going to take to finish the book.  If you open the reader and then pay more attention to your salad than the book, you actually go into negative reading progress.  The more often I chip away at a few pages of 18th century philosophy, the farther away (in time) the app thinks I am from the end.  Over the last few sessions, I've seen my finish estimate go from 4 hours 30 minutes to 6 hours 40 minutes.  I feel like Alice in the Looking Glass world.

As Adam Smith would say, how frequently soever one makes application to endeavor to accomplish that to which all good will and firmness of purpose has set the effort toward the end in mind, never the less does the final attainment of the long sought after goal seem to vanish like morning mist.