books
If one were to survey a very large and random group of book collectors, I strongly suspect that not a single one of them would fess up to collecting
Libraries and bookshops have always been great places for people watching.
Have you actually read all the books in your personal library? 90% of them? 50%? Have you read any of them?
Another WW II veteran, John Pistone, is doing something I'm not quite sure I could bring myself to do in his circumstances: He is returning to Ge