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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

December 4, 2024

This is not breezy, but the way Harari writes about how information is leveraged by bureaucracy and mythology and how it’s manipulated for various ends…

Knox

War

November 6, 2024

This book primarily focuses on the war in Ukraine and how it’s handled and less on the presidential implications. By the end of the book,…

Knox

Guilty Creatures: Sex, God and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

October 16, 2024

This book reads like a true crime podcast but resolves in a very satisfying way—a quick, compelling read about fairly recent history.

Knox

Disney High

October 9, 2024

I love a good oral history of something that was a cornerstone for a specific time in my life. This book does an excellent job…

Knox

The Plan

October 9, 2024

Friend of the Show, Kendra, talks about compassionate time management. She goes through how to understand productivity in your life as a woman and how…

Jamie

A Bit Much

September 18, 2024

I didn’t think I was a poetry person, but books like this have turned me. I love how Lyndsay writes about aging and being true…

Jamie

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

May 22, 2024

Erik Larson is pretty much a season pass for me. In this book, he draws heavily from archives and personal diaries from both the Confederate…

Knox

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

March 27, 2024

This is probably one of my favorite nonfiction reads of the last few years. It sounds very dense and tough, but it is not. It…

Knox

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

December 20, 2023

Tim is a real-deal journalist and real-deal evangelical. A clean, easy, objective look at what is going on through the lens of a true journalist…

Knox

The Deadline

November 22, 2023

A book of forty-six essays written by my favorite historical author that was so captivating it made me want to share quotes with random airplane…

Jamie