Strange but true – that’s the name of a little book my mother picked up from a book sale last year (I think), and which I just finished reading; can’t remember the author’s name, but it was published in about 1925.  It is, as the name suggests, about a houseboat that a group of the deceased (they call themselves the Associated Shades) decide to set up as a club on the River Styx.  It is, of course, exclusively male – but the author does have some fun with that, which was refreshing to see, although I don’t think he ends up being too favorable to the women.  There’s Socrates, Shakespeare (who tussles with both Bacon and Raleigh over the authorship of his work), Confucius, Demosthenes, Adam, Baron Munchausen, Diogenes, Drs Livingstone and Johnston (and of course Boswel)… a whole raft of interesing men, basically, including a few that I will have to go and look up.  It includes a few contemporary references that I just don’t get, but mostly their discussions are ones that are still interesting and amusing today.  Overall, very entertaining!