I'm about halfway through Two Years Before the Mast. The books is a bit of a slow read but it has been worth the time investment so far-descriptions of California, daily life aboard a ship, occasional poetic passages, and tyranny. This book is a Volume from the Five Foot Bookshelf.

The collection includes several plays. It occurred to me that instead of reading the plays I should see them performed. So, I have been checking them out at the library. I watched the first half of Shakespeare's The Tempest last night and have already watched Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sophicle's Antigonne. The two English plays were performed at the Globe in London, which I think is modeled on the original theater.

This morning I saw a preview for a new movie production based on Murder on the Orient Express. It looks like it was made by Ridley Scott. Im intrigued.