{"id":21558,"date":"2025-07-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=21558"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:44:41","slug":"june-reading-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/june-reading-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"June Reading Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books that I finished<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51yipky5TxL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chokepoints<\/em> by Edward Fishman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41kUhe-s2YL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Who Is Government?<\/em> by Michael Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41APJlGRxFL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lonely Men<\/em> by Louis L&#8217;Amour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51g9rt+czkL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Beekeeping<\/em> by Nancy Ross<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41LJ2aT312L._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Flash Boys<\/em> by Michael Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41f8rz98ZnL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Finish<\/em> by Jon Acuff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51zBWPINVdL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where the Long Grass Blows<\/em> by Louis L&#8217;Amour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41+t7aCngmL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Writing the Breakout Novel<\/em> by Donald Maass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41TmmBBDfHL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Empire of AI<\/em> by Karen Hao<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41SnOwQJiwL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Untold Story of Books<\/em> by Michael Castleman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41FoCqMniCL._SY445_SX342_PQ88_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Real Artists Don&#8217;t Starve<\/em> by Jeff Goins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books that I DNFed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Pornography Wars<\/em> by Kelsy Burke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>If You Could Live Anywhere<\/em> by Melody Warnick<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Writing on Empty<\/em> by Natalie Goldberg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Crashed<\/em> by Adam Tooze<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Four Hour Work Week<\/em> by Tim Ferris<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Long Game<\/em> by Dorie Clark<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Motivation Myth<\/em> by Jeff Haden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>When It All Burns<\/em> by Thomas Jordan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Inside the Real Area 51<\/em> by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The AI Con <\/em>by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Shadow Rising<\/em> by Robert Jordan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books that I finished Chokepoints by Edward Fishman Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis The Lonely Men by Louis L&#8217;Amour Beekeeping by Nancy Ross Flash Boys by Michael Lewis Finish by Jon Acuff Where the Long Grass Blows by Louis L&#8217;Amour Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass Empire of AI by Karen Hao The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/june-reading-recap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June Reading Recap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1902,1897,1900,1898,1893,1229,1894,1899,1892,1895,1901],"class_list":["post-21558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-tooze","tag-donald-maass","tag-jeff-goins","tag-karen-hao","tag-kelsy-burke","tag-louis-lamour","tag-melody-warnick","tag-michael-castleman","tag-michael-lewis","tag-nancy-ross","tag-natalie-goldberg","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5BI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21617,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions\/21617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}