Well, This Put Me Right Off Poker Night

Actually, that's not true; I'm staying home from my monthly poker game because I've got to write two chapters worth of photo captions for The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane tonight. But even if I were easily unnerved, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer's 13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition isn't really a fright inducer, but an entertaining look at, well, "the world's most popular superstition" and how it got that way. I never knew until today, for example, that the original title of Friday the 13th was Long Night at Camp Blood, which lends itself much less to sequel titling... Anyway, this was a fun diversion while I was taking an afternoon break from the keyboard, and I imagine you might enjoy it, too.