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  • February Reading List: 3 Best Books I Read in February 2023

    February Reading List: 3 Best Books I Read in February 2023

    February treated me right with three enjoyable books that included The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, and The English Spy. The book categories included The American Revolution, Self-Help, and a Spy Novel. For all…


  • January Reading List: 3 Best Books I Read in January 2023

    January Reading List: 3 Best Books I Read in January 2023

    I started 2023 by knocking down three books in my January reading list. The books include The Heist: A Novel, The American Revolution: A History, and Tao Te Ching. The book categories of a spy novel, the American Revolution, and philosophy and stoicism were all over the map. I like it that way. The American…


  • 2022 Reading List: My 38 Best Books of 2022

    2022 Reading List: My 38 Best Books of 2022

    I love putting together book reading lists where I have the opportunity to reflect on the reading year. I read 38 books that I will cover in my best books of 2022. Book categories covered in my best books of 2022 include World War I and II, the American Revolution, Finance and Investing, Fiction, the…


  • December Top Reads: The 3 Best Books on Amazon 2022

    December Top Reads: The 3 Best Books on Amazon 2022

    To close out the reading year, I read 3 books on Amazon in December. These books included Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within, and The English Spy. Each of these books was fun to read in its own right. However, my favorite of…


  • Turn the Page to November’s Top 3 Books on Amazon 2022

    Turn the Page to November’s Top 3 Books on Amazon 2022

    November was a fun books on Amazon reading month covering titles spanning categories like the Civil War, Coaching, and Spy Fiction. These books included Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, Coach Wooden One-On-One, and The Heist. All of these books on Amazon are fantastic reads but I’ll give the top book…


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