I'm back from vacation. I was off to Vancouver Island where the only thing more countless than beaches are used bookstores. I was more successful at getting some good used hockey titles than a suntan. I'm not even sure how many I got, though I'm sure the unpacked pile must look something like the image above. Of course, I have not really had much of an opportunity to read much of any of them, though I must say two recent titles look very promising. The first is Brian McFarlane's World of Hockey . I'm guilty of dismissing much of McFarlane's work as regurgitated hockey history stories (hey, isn't that what I do at GreatestHockeyLegends.com ?), but this McFarlane release has given me a great new respect for McFarlane. This book is McFarlane's own autobiography and it is nothing short of amazing. Did you know his father wrote many of the Hardy Boys' novels? Or that he was junior/college hockey star in his own right? Or that a huge uproar was made when h...