10, 11, and 12

So, I got a little behind on my updates so her is the latest news. I am pretty much right on pace with 12 books read in 3 months so I am feeling good about this. I usually read a lot more in the summers because it is pretty much too hot to do anything outside. The three books I knocked off were All Quiet on the Western Front which I will sum up this way; I don't like war, I don't plan on liking war, this did not help the situation any. I think if we forced people to read books like this they would be a lot less eager to fight over fossil fuels and imaginary lines in the middle of nowhere. So pretty much if WWI had actually been the war to end all wars that would have been nice. Next I read The Truth About You It may very well be bull, I'm not sure so someone else read it and let me know what you think. Lastly I just finished another look on poverty. This time I read Out of Poverty by Paul Polak. I read this because I knew the other was a little more radical than some of the other authors I have read who discuss ending poverty. Polak was much more extreme in his stance than I would ever be. He is very against foreign aid. I understand where he is coming from, many nations are dependent on aid and never fix there problems they just wait for the next boat full of money to show up. But there must be a give and take, and anyway generally speaking the wealthy have too much money anyway so we should give aid to impoverished nations just to force the world's wealthy to quit hogging all the cash. It was, however, interesting to read something by someone that I would consider extremely liberal in his solutions to poverty, I was raised by socialists, I don't come across that every day.