On the differences on Collecting and Reading

At times some people comment about “collectors” who just buy books to collect them and not read them. Those same peopl at times seem to have virtrol in their voices about those of us that buy books to “just” collect them. I enclosed just in quotation marks to show that [...]

Weekly Recommendations- Grad School Edition

As I stated in the previous post I am a trained historian and a living, walking cliche. But enough of that. On to the graduate school edition of Weekly Recommendations.
I went through college concentrating on military and American Civil War history. I found myself getting a little bored [...]

Weekly Recommendations- History Style

I am a trained historian. I have my BA from Gettysburg College and my MA from Monmouth University. I sell insurance. Which makes me the greatest living cliche ever.
History has always been a subject that I loved. I read it as much as I can but I [...]

On How Books Procreate

Oh how I wish they could come up with a pill for this. Why? Well contrary to common sense (no pun intended, you’ll see) I have done something that is both cool and not so cool.
In my focus to gather material on Tom Paine to read and get to know this forgotten Founding Father, [...]

A New Subject- Thomas Paine

A part of my bibliomania concerns how I handle subjects that I want to read about. This isn’t about collecting books. It is about collecting knowledge. That was one thing I could always remember since I was a wee small child. I always wanted to know everything I [...]