I checked out "Hokkaido Highway Blues" by Will Ferguson, because a A2Ker recommended the book after I said my wife and I are going on a Buddhist pilgramage to Japan in March for 12 days. It's 427 pages long, and I'm barely on page 10. It's a good thing I have the book for three weeks. LOL I'm also reading another book I bought on our trip to Canada in August, and I'm only about one-third through that one. ha, ha......slow, yes.