It felt like a good time to read this book.  Few people dedicate their time to study the stolen books in Europe, returning them to the families that remain, of those they once belonged to before the Nazis ripped them away.  Book bans are nothing new, but they never lead to anything good.  What we are seeing in America right now is a repeat of the not so distant past.  Did we learn nothing? Take away books, destroy thinking minds, destroy a people.

It did not end with books, in Nazi Germany.  It will not end with books in America in 2025, either—and the daily destruction of democracy couldn’t make this more clear.