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I randomly picked de Hartog's "The Captain" off the shelf while wandering through the stacks at my local library last year. It was a wonderful read, and the experience was a valuable reminder that serendipity can still be found in an age of Amazon shopping lists and infinite scroll ebook readers.

Mechanically popping the next book off of my self-assigned queue rarely inspires the same sense of reading purely for curiosity or pleasure.