"A sheer delight."- David J. Azrieli "Engaging, evocative arrangement and narration of people and circumstances. I LIKE IT!"- Aniko Koranyi, Past-President of Canadian Authors Association (Montreal). " "The title sets the stage for the tongue-in-cheek humour that abounds in the book. (.) Clear prose and vivid recall of everyday life. His account of his life up to the time he was in university is filled with warm remembrances that capture the time and place, right down to the way food tasted and how the word 'cancer' was never uttered.

"- Janice Arnold, Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 25, 2010 A charming 201-page book, providing an insider's view of Montreal's vibrant and historic Jewish community, as well as a powerful description of what happened to relatives who were left behind in Eastern Europe. He has graced the publication with many vintage photos and some historical documents. There are so many Jewish and Yiddish terms included in the book that Reich included a comprehensive glossary at the end." - Mike Cohen, Jewish Tribune, Toronto Jewish mothers worry. This is a truth so universally acknowledged that it has not only become a cliché, it's become a running gag. Even so, the joke behind the title of David Reich's new autobiography - You Could Lose an Eye: My First 80 Years in Montreal - is not so much about his mother's overbearing concern for Reich's welfare, but how willing he has been to take her concerns to heart. Growing up in Montreal in the 1930s and 1940s, the 80-year-old architect- turned-author was pretty much convinced he was going to lose an eye, at the very least.

As a consequence, the young Reich eschewed danger, even fun, and embraced his true risk-averse nature. f Reich wasn't having fun as a kid, he was, as is apparent in passages like the one above, developing a knack for finding things funny - himself in particular. You Could Lose an Eye is a self-deprecating, warm-hearted book. -- Joel Yanofsky, Montreal Review of Books, Spring 2011.