Good morning BookTube! I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their books. Recently, my wife and I celebrated our 21st Anniversary. It was a great day to be out with my family and we stopped at a couple of book stores and I wanted to share with you what I found. I also got some books in the mail from my friend Paul and I wanted to share those as well. I hope you enjoy. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend! Happy New Year’s Eve! and HAPPY READING!!!
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Congratulations on the 21st Anniversary , and more new books on your shelf ! Happy New Year 2023 ✨
Oh boy, Congress at War sounds like a good book. I'm almost finished with John Quincy Adams by Unger and the congress abuse against Adams is appalling and their gag rule. The book is very good. Have you read it?
"Good for five, good for twenty-five," and beyond, congratulations, we have been married 50 plus years, it was my history professor advisor, who told me the five, good for twenty-five when I returned to college to finish my last three semesters after a four year break as a Navy wife, nothing motivates as much as working dead end jobs for four years. Congrats on your good books too. I look forward to going to a brick and mortar bookstore in February after a medical appointment, only good thing about having to go in for a yearly visit, with my complexion I just expect, "that mole looks suspicious."
Congratulations on your anniversary. You have a very nice haul there. Glad you are enjoying the Agatha Christie books. Happy New Year to you and your family.
A 21st anniversary with books and Indian food? You hit the jackpot, friend. Great books as usual. I actually bought Shooting Lincoln a while back at your suggestion.
Wanna hear something ridiculous? Excluding my Christmas gift cards and a couple purchases already planned, I'm gonna see how far I can make it into 2023 without buying anything new. Yeah, even I'm rolling my eyes, but maybe it will make for a good laugh amidst the wintertime desolation.
Congrats!
Love me some Indian food. Congrats on the anniversary!
Seen Rick Atkinson books before, sounds good.
Lincoln Book – Drink!
The Franklin & Washington I read a little while back. Good info.
Lincoln book! – Drink!
“Congress at War” looks great. Need to get that.
“Read them all” (Agatha Christie) , that is a chore. I have read the first & second one. And the popular ones from her. But not feeling the urge to jump fully in.
Have a happy New Year!
Hi, Bill. Looks like a another great Haul. So glad you are reading the Poirot books along with the Marples. Neat idea too to start with the first two. I believe I told you before that I really like The Mysterious Affair at Styles. It is a favorite of mine and sets the template for the entire series. I enjoyed Murder in the Links too, as I have anything I have read by Christie, but I didn't think it was on the same par as the first book or some of the later Poirots. I will be interested in seeing what you think about it. These two books are also notable for featuring Hastings, who is is to Poirot what Dr. Watson is to Sherlock Holmes, even to bering the narrator of some of the stories. Unlike Watson, though, Hastings doesn't feature in most of the Poirot books as Christie has him get married and move to Argentina. He does appear in most of the Poirot short stories that Christie wrote early in her career for magazines. Because many of these stories were adapted for television years later, I think a lot of people have the mistaken impression Hastings appears in all the Poirots. He did return in the novel Christie intended as her swan song. There seems to a difference of opinion on Hastings among Christie fans. Some people like him and wish Christie had kept him on through the whole series and others think Poirot was better off without him. Though I really enjoy anything I have read by Christie, I too, wish she had used Hastings more, as he is a good sounding board for Poirot. I will be interested in what you think on this after you have read more of the stories.
Hi Bill, Happy belated anniversary! Your nonfiction books sounds really interesting too. I read the Franklin & Washington book and found it very informative. I heard of the Shooting Lincoln and wondered if it was worthwhile, but you convinced me. I had also heard of the Congress at War book; I think I will wait and see what you think of it before I read it. Like you, I wondered about the slant of it. Some previous writers tried to downplay the Radical Republicans in Congress to build up Lincoln, and it sounds like this book may go to the opposite extreme. I especially find problematic that the subtitle states how Congress "defied Lincoln." As Michael Burlingame and other historians have documented, Lincoln and Congress often worked in tandem to achieve their common goals; differences were more a matter of personalities, political ambitions, and the differing constituencies each had to deal with than disagreements on fundamental principles. And when the Radicals in Congress did try to defy Lincoln in seeking different approaches in the methods they chose to pursue their mutual goals, more often than not, Lincoln often followed what proved to be the wiser approach, something Frederick Douglass, who criticized Lincoln frequently early in his presidency, stated clearly after the war. Bordewitch has written books about the first Congress and the Compromise of 1850 but I haven't read anything by him. The most interesting of these books to me is the memoir by A. K. McClure. I always find these original sources intriguing. Your edition comes from a series of early biographies and memoirs about Lincoln that have been reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press with new intros by historians. I know Michael Burlingame and Allen Guelzo contributed intros to other volume in this series. I would really like to get some of these titles. Happy New Year!