BOOKS

You’ll notice that I have no book suggestions this month. I am reading, though, and the book is almost too real to handle. I’m reading Barbara Tuchman’s 1962 book The Guns of August about the outbreak and first month of World War I. I admit to moving very slowly through the book, at least in part because the days preceding the First World War are almost surreal. Egos, fascism, disbelief, and blunders are the keywords leading to the war, and some of it is so eerily modern that it is frightening. History is fascinating and mesmerizing; the inability of man to learn from it is mind-boggling. Next month I will share my thoughts with you.