How to read a novel in two days

It's easy: spend 4½ hours on trains, ferries, and buses. The return trip from San Rafael yesterday took almost two hours, half on a bus and half on the BART.

More travel today, this time to the other end of the bay, and I hope less time in transit. I'm planning to start another novel on the way: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, which a friend recommended at a Halloween party last week. By "recommended" I mean he dressed up as the titular Carl and made a compelling case for spending the $10 on the first book in the series. If I finish that before I get home, I also brought Grace Blakely's Stolen, which may be less entertaining than the two sci-fi novels.

Now: breakfast. But first: the Ferry Building from yesterday morning: