Herewith my thoughts on each of the books I have read starting August 7th, 2008
The Stories of English by David Crystal
Talking Hands by Margalit Fox
The Trojan War by Barry Strauss
An Historical Geography of Europe by Norman J. G. Pounds
Energy Victory by Robert Zubrin
War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
The Origins of Complex Language by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
A History of Reading by Steven Roger Fischer
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei
The Little Mermaid from Little Golden Books
Throwing Fire by Alfred W. Crosby
God and Reason in the Middle Ages by Edward Grant
A Companion to Justinian's Institutes by Ernest Metzger