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Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from March 2021
Fiction and general non-fiction were the two themes from the books on Amazon that I read in March. I continued the spy novel train with The Kill Artist and can’t wait to read the next book in the series The English Assassin. The other book I read was Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon,…
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Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from February 2021
Fiction was the theme of this month’s best books on Amazon list. A Confederacy of Dunces and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold are fantastic books that I thoroughly enjoyed. After I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller, I came to the conclusion there are fiction books out there for me. Generally speaking, fiction is…
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Best Books on Amazon: Top 3 Books from January 2021
Energy and fiction were the two themes from my January books on Amazon reading list. Modernizing America’s Electricity Infrastructure, Electric Power System Basics for the Nonelectrical Professional, and I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller were the books I read. I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller was my favorite of the three. This is surprising because I generally…
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Best Books on Amazon: Top 3 Books from December
History and Energy were the two themes for last month’s Best Books on Amazon reading list. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy, and The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future was the book I read. Superpower: One Man’s Quest to…
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2020 Reading List: My 37 Best Books of 2020
2020 was another productive reading year. Ending just shy of 40 books in my best books of 2020, I set a goal at the beginning of this year to read at least 25 pages per day. That goal reminded me to pick up a book and spend time reading every day. The result was 37…
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