Well, I haven’t been able to sleep for like 4 days, so that’s given me ample time to finish Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa. I’m glad I took notes, otherwise I’d have to re-read everything to blog about it. At this point in the story, he’s talking about the aftereffects of the…

Well, it’s 2:00am and I can’t sleep – so what better time to blog? Over the last couple of days I made it through three more chapters of Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler. Chapter seven, the Revolution, once again discusses the need for propaganda, only this time he talks about…

The Moments When the Mountain Moved is the title of the fourth chapter of Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa. During the last 300 years, it has been surmised by some that the great volcano has erupted up to eleven times. Most historians and geologists regard all but three as legend. Winchester focuses…

I made it through chapter 4 of Mein Kampf last night. Hitler is going over his time in Munich. He spends his time comparing the supremacy of Munich to Vienna. Then goes into a tirade about the triad alliance with Germany, Austria and Italy… postulating what could have been done…

I finished Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist last night. As I mentioned yesterday, I thought it was a very predictable story. I wasn’t disappointed. You could easily predict what was going to happen next. Very boring. Coelho continued his New Age theme of all things are of the same soul (Soul…