Well, the last time I went to the library, I got two non-fiction books.  One of these is Mark Twain’s (or Samuel Clemens’s if you prefer), “The Innocents Abroad.”  It chronicles Mark Twain’s trip to Europe and is 723 pages long.  Currently, I am on page 198.  I think it is fairly boring.  It seems to have not have any climax that it is building towards.  I guess I like fiction books a lot more.

However, there are a few passages that are interesting such as Twain’s description of people groups and particular characters.  Yes!  This took me a while to find again, but read this:

They were like near all the Frenchwomen I ever saw — homely.  They had large hands, large feet, large mouths;  they had pug-noses as a general thing, and mustaches that not even good breeding could overlook;  they combed their hair straight back without parting;  they were ill-shaped, they were not winning, they were not graceful;  I knew by their looks that they ate garlic and onions; and lastly and finally, to my thinking it would be base flattery to call them immoral.

I’m not sure about the last line but I like what I bolded especially mustaches.  This quote is the best but he also have some unkind remarks to say to the Azores natives, a doctor that always argues wrong and makes up fake ancient authors to support his claims, and other characters or people groups.  (The Azores is an archipelago close to Europe in the Atlantic Ocean.)

Even though this book is boring, I will continue reading it.  I write down where the interesting quotes are when I come to them.