Book 23: Johnny Carson. By Henry Bushkin.

Book 24: Kissinger. A Biography. By Walter Isaacson.

Book 25: The Ministry of Time. By Kaliane Bradley. Fiction. Part historical fiction. Part science fiction. And a dash of romantic fantasy. Check out the second photo for an outline of the book. Overall, a fun and interesting read. The author certainly makes one think.

Book 26: The Vatican Diaries. By John Thavis. Thavis was a reporter at the Vatican for decades and his book chronicles the various things he wrote about while covering his beat. The result is a riveting account of the trials and tribulations of the Catholic Church.

Book 27: How I Spent My Summer Holiday. By W. O. Mitchell. Set in small town Saskatchewan in the summer of 1924, this is sort of a coming of age story involving a boy named Hugh, his pals, and an unfortunate series of events out on the prairie.

What a tragedy and a loss for the country. Tim was a phenomenal historian and his books were magnificent. Gone far too soon.

Book 28: When Paris Went Dark. The City of Light Under German Occupation. 1940-1944. By Ronald C. Rosbottom This was a detailed account of the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War.

Book 29: When the Irish invaded Canada. The incredible true story of the Civil War veterans who fought for Ireland’s freedom. By Christopher Klein. A really informative look at what were known as the Fenian raids in 1866, 1870, and 1871.

Book 30: Bannon. By Louis L’Amour. First published in 1948. A classic L’Amour western and I loved every page.

Book 31: Complex 90. By Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. A Mike Hammer classic set during the Cold War in the early 1960s. Spillane started this book but never finished it, a job that fell to Collins.

Book 32: Cracking The Nazi Code. The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code. By Jason Bell. I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable armchair historian, but I’d never heard of Nova Scotian Winthrop Bell, a secret agent for MI6. Truly great read.

Book 33: Carry on, Jeeves. By the inimitable P.G. Wodehouse. This is one of the English comedy writer’s earlier offerings, published in 1925. A series of comedic stories featuring British bon vivant Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, who always ends up saving the day.

Book 34: Open Season. By Jonathan Kellerman. Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis are on the hunt for a killer who strikes from a distance.

Book 35: And Then There Were None. By Agatha Christie. I have read this book more than once, but this time I enjoyed it as an audiobook with Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey fame as the narrator. As a lifelong Agatha Christie fan, this is probably my favorite of her books.

Book 36: The Arctic Grail. The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole 1818-1909. By Pierre Berton.

Book 37: Roses Are Difficult Here. By W.O. Mitchell. Set in the Alberta foothills in the fictional small town of Shelby, during the 1950s, the story is about what happens when a sociologist visits. The final book for 2025. Forgot to post a while ago.

Go back to sleep, you daft old bastard.

Clearly this decrepit old fool - Don the Con - doesn’t understand how tariffs work.

And the world has been a lesser place since his departure. #thegreatman #churchill #KBO

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