Revisiting old favorites.

I love to reread my old books. The wife thinks I am crazy and wonders why I keep so many of my books but I always like to reread them over and over again. It is like visiting with an old friend. Since I am a very fast reader I zip right through them. But it is always enjoyable. So when I leave in the morning for the train I grab a book off the shelf and reread it.

This week I grabbed a nifty little piece of alternative history called "1901" by Robert Conroy. In it he asks what would happen if Kaiser Wilhelm decided that Germany should have the overseas possessions like Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines that the US had just taken from Spain. So the Germans invade New York to force the issue and get the US to turn over these overseas "colonies." It is a fun read. Not great literature but a page turner. As is usual in these books, the historical figures are fun but the fictional characters that are used as plot devices can get kind of tiresome. But it is still a great way to pass the time while riding the train to work.