Always have a book . . .

There was chance to meet an accomplished man when I was young, probably around the age of 12 or 13. This gentleman credited much of his success to his habit of taking every opportunity to read. It had started when he was in the military and found himself to often be waiting for things to happen. He always had reading material, a paperback, a magazine or paper, with him. When waiting in a line, traveling, or otherwise unoccupied, he would pull out his book or whatever and read.
It has been my habit since hearing him talk to try to never find myself in a down moment without something to read. Indeed, I look forward to travel as a time for uninterrupted reading. The long delays in airports these days in some ways I look forward to for reading time.
On this trip, I have not had a great deal of down time for reading. (I'm always working on this darn travel blog it seems!) I will share with you those for which I have so far had time - in no particular order:

Cosmos, Chaos, & the World to Come; The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy

Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein edited by Carl Seelig

A primer of Freudian Psychology by Calvin Hall

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper FForde

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (currently reading)