Tag: Books & Reading
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Unknown Valor Review: The Untold Human Cost of the Pacific War in World War II
Reading Time: 3 minutesA moving review of Unknown Valor by Martha MacCallum, a powerful World War II history book exploring the Pacific theater, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guadalcanal, and the sacrifices made by ordinary Americans during the war against Japan.
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Book Review: Greater Things I Shall Do: A Guided Journey from Broken Places to Bold Purpose
Reading Time: 4 minutesBroken Places to Bold Purpose. A book you will want to read.
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Daily Writing Prompt 25-Jun: If you could change the ending of any book, which one would it be?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I could change one book, it would be the Bible—not the story, but a footnote exploring faith, history, authorship, and certainty.
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How AI Analyzed My Book Reviews and Recommended My Next Reads
Reading Time: 4 minutesI used AI to analyze years of book reviews, identify reading patterns, and recommend future books based on my interests in history, leadership, society, and human behavior.
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Daily Writing Prompt 20-Jun What’s a book, movie, or TV show that you wish you could experience again for the first time?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you could erase one book, TV show, or movie from memory to experience it again for the first time, what would you choose and why?
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Benjamin Franklin: The Practical Founder America Forgot | Review of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Reading Time: 4 minutesA thoughtful review of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson, exploring Franklin as America’s most practical Founding Father — a self-made man who valued compromise, diplomacy, civic responsibility, and solutions over ideology. A compelling look at the man behind the myths and why his ideas still matter today.
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The Classics At Gutenberg
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGreat books are just a click away. The classics at Gutenberg.org
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100 Books on History, Leadership, Civilization, and Human Resilience: My Lifetime Reading Roadmap
Reading Time: 3 minutesA curated reading list of history, biography, fiction, leadership, Roman Empire, democracy, resilience, and Pulitzer Prize-winning books. Discover the books I’ve read and the classics still waiting on my shelf.
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Why Poldark May Be the Best Historical Fiction Series I’ve Ever Read
Reading Time: 2 minutesHistory has always fascinated me, not simply because of dates and events, but because of the people who lived through them. The Poldark series by Winston Graham captures that feeling better than almost any historical fiction I have read. Set against the backdrop of post-American Revolutionary War England, these novels bring the…