I’ve been cranking through Ian Kershaw’s Hitler: A Biography and finding out a lot of interesting things. He talks about Hitler detesting physical exercise, which is completely contradictory to Hitler’s view he presents in Mein Kampf. If I remember correctly, Hitler actually wanted to change the education system to focus…

When I left off on Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw, we were in the year 1933 and Hitler had just become the Reich Chancellor of Germany. I’ve read four more chapters, about 200 pages, which take us from that time to late autumn 1938. Throughout these years, Kershaw shows…

Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw is a book I started way back on Day 59… then I got engrossed in the Romanov books, so Hitler got set aside for a few weeks. Well, I’m digging back into it and find it completely fascinating. Before I get into a few…

Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey is a collection of her short stories, some based on a couple of her novel series. For those who are not familiar with Anne, she is probably the “mother” of female sci-fi writers. I first encountered her by picking up a book of…

I finished another book by Robert K. Massie on the Romanovs, appropriately titled: The Romanovs, The Final Chapter. This is his follow-up book to Nicholas and Alexandra. This book is vastly different from Nicholas and Alexandra in that it is almost a detective/csi-like novel. The first book was written in…