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| Posted: Sun Jan 7th, 2007 07:02 pm |
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Ole I can relate to all the reasons you gave. I too have stacks to read , I not only buy books but our Round table has a book raffle each month to raise money for preservation. I seem to come home with a book most months . Then there is the book discussion group at the Drum and usually that book has to be read that month. I am skipping the book this month. It is by an author name Jaffa. He is very dense .. I read the first book by him we had on the reading list. I swear I had headaches every night and had every dictionary and reference book I own out on the table next to me to look up reference. This one is on the Lincoln Douglas Debate. I am sure it is a good book but I am more a social historian than a political one. I like to read the biographies the most, then diaries or personal narratives, then tthe battle narratives . I like to read the biographies of the politicians but not so much the detail discussions . I also get distracted by Western History . I am first and foremost a Westerner. I was born and raised in California by my father born in Idaho and at one time a cowboy, and a mother from Oklahoma with very southern roots but Oklahoma is also a Western State in so many ways My college years and for many years after my reading in History was all Medieval and Rennaissance Englis history. Everyonce in a while one of those books calls me too. Then there is my abosolute addiction to several msytery authors and their detectives. I guess I could have worse addictions .
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