All Facts Considered

All Facts Considered: the essential library of inessential knowledge by Kee Malesky 277 pgs.

Kee Malesky is the one of the librarians at NPR and this book is a collection of facts and information that she has researched in the course of her work. Broken into three sections and twelve chapters, there is something literally on every page that I found interesting. For example, the cost of wars in 2008 dollars and the total battle deaths in each war. Very interesting stuff...fewer die in battle but the cost in dollars is amazing and rising. The "curse to the book stealer" made me laugh. Kee's favorite curse "If anyone take away this book, let him dies the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged." No pussy footing around there. So much information in one little volume, there is really something for everyone. - Christa