Books of 2024 (9.12.24 Update)

Literature from the past few months , and whats on deck

Took the summer off of book updates, but now that fall is here, its time to get back into the swing of things.

Here are the latest books that I’ve read over the past few months -

1. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (audio) - 5.31.24

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2. The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk - 6.14.24

   

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   3. Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins (audio) - 8.8.24

   

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   4. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - 8.27.24

   

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   5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 9.10.24

Very interesting mix of books when you look back on it. Had take aways from every single one of them. Each shaped my writing during the summer in ways that I couldn’t have possibly predicted otherwise.

Not quite sure whats up next , but looking forward to it. Have a whole stack of books in the queue on the desk that are anxiously waiting for their time in the sun.

Have you taken a stab at any of these guys? Let me know in the comments, more than happy to open the floor for a healthy book-club discussion on any / all of these.

Thank you kindly for reading ,

- mike

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Books of 2024

1. Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy - 1.5.24

2. Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley - 1.10.24

3. Mastery by Robert Greene (audio) - 1.12.24

4. The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles - 1.12.24

5. Is God Real? by Lee Strobel - 1.14.24

6. Tennyson’s Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson - 1.18.24

7. Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway - 1.20.24

8. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey - 1.25.24

9. The Trial by Franz Kafka - 2.2.24

10. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - 2.8.24

11. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2.29.24

12. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - 3.8.24

13. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - 4.11.24

14. Red Rising by Pierce Brown - 5.30.24

15. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (audio) - 5.31.24

16. The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk - 6.14.24

17. Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins (audio) - 8.8.24

18. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - 8.27.24

19. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 9.10.24