Book Haul - Princeton University Press 

That is AWESOME! What a find. That would be a fun hobby. Thanks for watching. Have a great week.

Thanks Christina! I am looking forward to it. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

Yes it does! It's a beautiful book. Sorry I didn't show those. I wasn't thinking.

Thanks Debs! I am really looking forward to them. I am glad that Princeton University Press was willing to send them to me. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

Thanks Stephanie. It is a big book. I should be learning quite a bit from it. I am looking forward to it. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

Wow, those are some good titles. Thebes, Pytheas, and the Amanda Podany book were all great. Hope you enjoy them!

That sounds like quite a stack of books. I love having choices in my reading, so I understand putting in more than will get read. Nothing wrong with that. I hope you enjoy the ones you choose. Thanks for watching. Have a great week.

Thanks Justin! I have really enjoyed getting books from them. They have all been high quality. I will have to go and check out your review. Thanks for watching. Have a great week.

Thanks Vin! It was a pretty good haul from Princeton University Press. I am very thankful to them. I am thinking that after I get done reading the Maria Theresa book I should use it as a door stopper. It's heavy enough. The 1898 book should be intriguing. I enjoy learning about the era. I find it fascinating. Thanks for watching. Have a great week.

Thanks Vickie. Yeah, I am in the same boat. I am a blank slate and I love biographies. I hope the author is a good story teller because this is going to take awhile. It's a big book. So big, in fact, that I don't believe I will try to read with it in bed because if I was to drop it I would probably have a nasty black eye or a broken nose. Although, it would fill in for my weight lifting program ... that might be something to think about. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

@@billruttenberg funny!! Thanks for answering. Happy reading. You am retired and I still don’t have enough time to read!!!!!!

Thanks James! I hope all is well. I saw that you hauled the book Paris 1919. That is on my TBR list. I have it here on the shelves and I need to read it. I hope you like it. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

Hey Bryan! Guess what ... we are out of school ... again. Ice on the roads this time. This is beginning to be a pain in the neck. Anyway, I am very excited about the Maria Theresa book. I hope that I can get to it this year. I am going to try my hardest to get to 1187. It is obviously much smaller and I have heard good things about it. Everybody seems to be reading it. I guess I want to get on the bandwagon. Right now I am enjoying David McCullough's biography on Truman. I am buddy reading it with Patrice Jones and it is a huge book. 1000 pages. Who knows when I will get done with it?! Anyway, thanks for watching. Hope you have a good day.

Thanks David. I understand what you mean. However, I am such a novice in this time period that it will all be new to me. I will have to do the cross referencing as I go. Thanks for watching. Have a great week.

Thanks Susan! They are great titles that I can't wait to dive into. I gotta figure out where they will be on the TBR list. It is a full list! I am excited about the Maria Theresa book because it will definitely help me in teaching my World History class at school. Good stuff. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

Thanks Jim! It was a wonderful haul, beautiful books. I have never looked into Georgian history. That is one that I will need to explore. Thanks for the thought provoking fact. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend. By the way -- I love the one minute reviews. I saw the one on the Star Trek book last night. Good stuff. Short, sweet, and to the point.

@@billruttenberg Georgian history is not known widely outside Georgia. Although one Georgian, Stalin made a massive impact on World History, he was born in the Georgian town of Gori. But that is not something to boast about, vast swathes of the Georgian intelligentsia were eliminated in the purges of the 1930s. Further back in prehistory, Georgia has a plausible claim to be the origin of winemaking in the world (a claim disputed by Armenia), archaeological evidence of winemaking in the region dates back 8000 years to 6000BC. Georgian history is the story of invasions and resistance to invasions, from Persians, Turks, Mongols and Russians.

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Thanks Jim. I knew about Stalin, but I didn't know about wine making. That's interesting! Georgia sits in an area that is a crossroads of the world doesn't it? That always leads to lots of invasions and lots of cultural diffusion. Creates a unique history. I need to look more into it. Have a great week Jim.

Yes! I was excited to get the mail this week. It's always good to get books in the mail, especially from a university press! I am expecting two more. I will show them when they arrive. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

Awesome! I am not a poem guy but I do like historic films. What are your favorite poems and historic films? I will go and try to find them. Maybe you can change my mind on poems?? Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.

No, it only has time frames to work within. We have all came up with different book ideas but nothing is a set reading. We wanted it to be more open ended so that people could have more freedom to read what they wanted. 1st Quarter (January - March): Prehistory -- 500 A.D. 2nd Quarter (April - June): 500 -- 1500 3rd Quarter (July - September): 1500 -- 1820 4th Quarter (October - December): 1820 - Present Hope this helps. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend.

@@billruttenberg Thank you very much for the reply, Mr. Ruttenberg. Much appreciated.

@@unstopitable I got to thinking about your question ... just to clarify ... Did you mean my list or a set list for the whole groups' readathon??

@@billruttenberg I don't want to bother you, bro. I know you'er busy. But I meant the group list. Please don't trouble yourself. I can just watch your videos and glean the readings from it. No worries.