Crazy…. I started reading The Sum of All Fears after we got to the hospital when Katie went into labor with Tommy and I finally just finished it a couple of weeks ago. I must say though, it was a very fun read. Super detailed when it comes to describing the re-manufacturing process of a nuclear weapon (albeit with some altered details to keep it from being a cookbook of sorts) as well as the point of detonation. Amazing stuff to say the least.

Now I’m onto an historical account of Captain Kidd, The Pirate Hunter. This one is fairly interesting, as I had no idea about the man himself (or even about the reality of pirates). I’m enjoying again the amount of detail that author Richard Zacks has gleaned from letters, diaries, documents and court papers, and the picture he’s painted of 17th-century Manhattan, London, Indonesia and India (among other places). I must say, In a lot of ways, I’m glad I was born in the 20th Century!