Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four
By George Orwell, First current printing April 1983
Copyright 1949

Story takes place 35 years before 1984.
In many ways it predicts the future, even when reading it today.
Today (4/20/2017) Completed reading "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell. Amazing book written in 1949 and story is fiction about 1984. Recent comments by some writers are warning that some political events today in 2017 are going down this very bad road of control of the public in a similar way. A lot in the news recently about "alternate facts" etc. Is this "double thinking" as in the 1984 story???
How can a President in so many messages say one thing today and reverse it tomorrow?  He freely calls so many other political folks liars when he does not agree with them. "Double Thinking" at its best. 

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck, original copyright 1937

Very short and interesting reading.
About George and his halfwit friend Lennie.
Lennie loves rabbits and little else.

Completed reading 4/10/2017

Herbert Hoover A Biography

Herbert Hoover A Biography
by Eugene Lyons
Written in 1964

Defended all the way, very little bad about Hoover in this biography.
In Wikipedia about Hoover it says that he is now listed among the 5 worst US Presidents.  This book writes about all of the bad things about FDR which Hoover continued to say during his lifetime.
Hoover was still alive at age 90 when this biography was published in 1964.
Hoover died later in 1964.

Complete reading it all on 4/8/2017.