Tag: Louis L’Amour

March Reading Recap

Books I Finished

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares

The Death of Caesar by Barry Strauss

Ride the Dark Trail by Louis L’Amour

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta

The Tall Stranger by Louis L’Amour

Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

Creating Character Arcs by K.M. Weiland

The Mother of the Lord by Margaret Barker

The Nazi Mind by Laurence Rees

The Jupiter Knife by D.J. Butler & Aaron Michael Ritchey

The Lost World of Genesis One by John H. Walton

Dark Canyon by Louis L’Amour

The NVIDIA Way by Tae Kim

Write Naked by Jennifer Probst

Lonely on the Mountain by Louis L’Amour

Nightmare Obscura by Michelle Carr

Books I DNFed

  • This Is For Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
  • The Bible According to Christian Nationalists by Brian Kaylor
  • The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman
  • The Leah Shadow by Harold K. Moon
  • Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh
  • Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
  • Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  • The Making & Breaking of the American Constitution by Mark Peterson
  • Passage by Connie Willis

February Reading Recap

Books I Finished

How the West Was Won by Louis L’Amour

Mustang Man by Louis L’Amour

Establishing Zion by Lawrence C. Walters

Writing Archetypal Character Arcs by K.M. Weiland

The History of Money by David McWilliams

Dismantling America by Thomas Sowell

(Why are you so racist, Amazon? Why is this book excluded from your Amazon Associates program??)

The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua Winn

Galloway by Louis L’Amour

The Quick and the Dead by Louis L’Amour

Storm Gold by Lee Nelson

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout

Treasure Mountain by Louis L’Amour

Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell

Books I DNFed

  • Fateful Hours by Volker Ulrich
  • The Path to Singularity by J. Craig Wheeler
  • That Book Is Dangerous! by Adam Szetzla
  • Story Genius by Lisa Cron
  • Every Day I Read by Hwang Bo-Reum
  • The Last Book Written By a Human by Jeff Burningham
  • Before the Second Coming by Richard Brunson

January Reading Recap

Books that I finished

Pox Romana by Colin Elliott

Homeschooling by Ginny Yurich

Mojave Crossing by Louis L’Amour

The Cunning Man by David Butler

Writing Great Fiction by James Hynes

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

The Sackett Brand by Louis L’Amour

Writing the Great American Romance Novel by Catherine Lanigan

The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson

Work Pray Code by Carolyn Chen

Civil Rights by Thomas Sowell

A Revolution of Common Sense by Scott Jennings

(Side note: Why is this book excluded from the Amazon Associates program? It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Amazon’s woke political bias, could it? Surely not!)

Rocket Dreams by Christian Davenport

The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth

While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park

The Happiness Files by Arthur C. Brooks

The Sacrament and Your Endowment by Mark A. Shields

The Sky-Liners by Louis L’Amour

Books tha I DNFed

  • The Sorceress and the Cygnet by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Status & Culture by W. David Marx
  • Virtual Light by William Gibson
  • When Homeschooling Gets Tough by Diana Johnson
  • Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
  • Why Women Read Fiction by Helen Taylor
  • The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
  • The Origin & History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann

December reading recap

Books I Finished

Lando by Louis L’Amour

Conan the Bold by John Maddox Roberts

Neighbors by Jan T. Gross

Smartphone Nation by Kaitlyn Regehr

Artificial You by Susan Schneider

Sackett by Louis L’Amour

The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell

The Man Called Noon by Louis L’Amour

Books I DNFed

  • Masada by Jodi Magness
  • Writing from the Inside Out by Dennis Palumbo
  • Let’s Talk About Misconceptions with DNA and the Book of Mormon by John M. Butler & Ugo A. Perego
  • Writing As a Sacred Path by Jill Jepso
  • The Last Human Job by Allison Pugh
  • The Lost Empire of Atlantis by Gavin Menzico
  • Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
  • Searches by Vauhini Varg

November reading recap

Books I finished

Algospeak by Adam Aleksic

The Hollywood Standard by Christopher Riley

Our Dollar, Your Problem by Kenneth Rosoff

The Daybreakers by Louis L’Amour

Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell

The Dragon’s Prophecy by Jonathan Cahn

The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon

Supremacy by Parmy Olson

Plain and Precious Things by D. John Butler

Lions and Scavengers by Ben Shapiro

Books I DNFed

  • Shane by Jack Schaefer
  • The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • How to WRite like a Writer by Thomas C. Foster
  • Ilium by Dan Simmons
  • Consumed by Saabira Chaudhuri
  • Psywar by Robert W. and Jill G. Malone

October reading recap

Books that I finished

Fitzpatrick’s War by Theodore Judson

A Man Called Trent by Louis L’Amour

The MAGA Doctrine by Charlie Kirk

How to Write a Screenplay by Mark Evan Schwartz

Wired for Story by Lisa Cron

The Tree of Life by John Welch and Donald W. Parry, eds.

Blood of Amber by Roger Zelazny

Pardon of Innocence by Michael Flynn

Love Worth Making by Stephen Snyder

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

Temple Theology: An Introduction by Margaret Barker

In It Together by Janci Patterson

The Mythmakers by John Hendrix

Books that I DNFed

  • The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
  • Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp
  • So You Want to Start a Podcast by Kristen Meinzer
  • Write a Must Read by AJ Harper
  • The Big One by Michael T. Osterhom and Mark Olshaker
  • AI Needs You by Verity Harding
  • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
  • Women’s Anatomy of Arousal by Sheri Winston
  • The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
  • Understanding the Signs of the Times by Donald W. Parry and Jay A. Parry
  • Shadow of the Conqueror by Shad M. Brooks

August reading recap

Not a ton of reading this month, since we were moving for most of it, but I still managed to finish (and DNF) a few books here and there.

Books that I finished

The Edible Ecosystem Solution by Zach Locks

Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

The Rustlers of West Fork by Louis L’Amour

The Optimist by Keach Hagey

Passin’ Through by Louis L’Amour

The Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch

Books that I DNFed

  • The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor
  • Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Science Fictions by Ritchie Stuart
  • In Covid’s Wake by Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
  • Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert

July reading recap

Books that I finished

Boomerang by Michael Lewis

The Iron Marshall by Louis L’Amour

Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen

The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson

Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen

On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray

The Man from Skibbereen by Louis L’Amour

Writing for Impact by Bill Birchard

Seven Things You Can’t Say About China by Tom Cotton

The Greatest Comeback Ever by Joe Concha

Books That I DNFed

  • Genesis by Henry Kissinger, Craig Mundie, & Eric Schmidt
  • Minifarming by Brett L. Markham
  • Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • An ABundance of Caution by David Zveig
  • The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub
  • AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan
  • Resolute by Benjamin Hall
  • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

June Reading Recap

Books that I finished

Chokepoints by Edward Fishman

Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis

The Lonely Men by Louis L’Amour

Beekeeping by Nancy Ross

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

Finish by Jon Acuff

Where the Long Grass Blows by Louis L’Amour

Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

Empire of AI by Karen Hao

The Untold Story of Books by Michael Castleman

Real Artists Don’t Starve by Jeff Goins

Books that I DNFed

  • The Pornography Wars by Kelsy Burke
  • If You Could Live Anywhere by Melody Warnick
  • Writing on Empty by Natalie Goldberg
  • Crashed by Adam Tooze
  • The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
  • The Long Game by Dorie Clark
  • The Motivation Myth by Jeff Haden
  • When It All Burns by Thomas Jordan
  • Inside the Real Area 51 by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt
  • The AI Con by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
  • The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

“What is a year?”

A year? What is a year? All time is relative. One day may be a lifetime, a year can be forever. It is not the number of days, but what goes into those days. —Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path.