An obsession with books:

A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books by Harold Rabinowitz

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A collection of fun to read pieces about collecting books, including the odd nature of the collector. Also the importance of being a reader.



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Review: A Short History of World War I by James L. Stokesbury

A Short History of World War I by James L. Stokesbury

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I have enjoyed reading popular histories since I was a boy in junior high. As an adult, my career precluded much time to indulge in this pleasure, but when I retired, I began to do so again. Sokesbury's book on WWI help to fill a gap in my education regarding the era surrounding that period. The book is an easy read, and sometimes humorous, which helps. The Great War was an incalculably import series of events, resulting in the Second World War, with difficult to understand causes, not one of which seems sufficient to have brought about the results.



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