Close friends and family are well aware that I am a huge fan of Alexandre Dumas, particularly of his books The Three Musketeers (and sequels) and The Count of Monte Cristo. You will find no greater adventure story in all of literature than The Three Musketeers, and Monte Cristo continues to be one of my absolute favorite books. Dumas is the king of characterization, and enduringly humorous and witty author, and a masterful storyteller. Seriously... every chapter leaves you begging for more (he wrote these books as serials after all!).

So, I was totally stoked to read in the news this morning that a final book of Dumas has been found and recently published! The title is The Last Cavalier, and it promises to be yet another swashbuckling good time. Unfortunately, it was never finished by Dumas himself, but one man's interpretation of the ending has been added to the translation.

I wonder if any alternate endings will surface...

Well, a couple days ago I finally got around to reading a children's book I randomly picked up at the library, The Little Prince. Little did I know this was an international hit, one of the 50 most popular books in the world with more than 50 million copies sold in over 160 languages!¹ Apparently, this charming book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a French aviator, is quite the children's classic... and I had no clue! I put off reading it so long I had to renew my rental from the library, and I now having read it I think I should've read it five times during that time.