.........	I read a few books this past summer some of which you might find interesting, especially if you share a historical bent.
		“The Professor and the Madman” by Simon Winchester is a remarkable story of the creation of the Oxford English dictionary over a 30+ year period and of the working relationship between the English editor and one of the chief contributors with whom the editor corresponded for years - a former U. S.  Civil War officer who was criminally insane and  serving a life sentence for murder in an English asylum. (People may think CDs and TVs are daft but this fellow was really off his rocker!)
		Dava Sobel’s book “Longitude” is a quick and easy read telling of John Harrison’s life long effort to claim the English Parliament’s prize for designing a reliable sea chronometer to enable navigation around the world. He succeeded over many obstacles (both scientific and political) and thereby changed the course of history.
		“The Life of Sir Thomas More” by Peter Ackroyd, the tragic story of the English Catholic lawyer who became Lord Chancellor of England, the highest non-royal position in the realm, only to be beheaded on Tower Hill for his refusal to approve Henry VIII’s efforts to annul his marriage with Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. The author places More in the role of a powerful man who seems in control of his destiny and the society around him when in fact he represents the closing of the medieval era of Catholic England on the eve of the Renaissance and the Reformation which changed the world forever.