The Last Lion: Winston Spencer ChurchillVolume IIAlone 1932-1940By: William ManchesterNarrated by: Richard BrownLength: 36 hrs and 21 mins The essence of never giving up comes to the forefront when you look at Churchill in the interwar years. You see a man who is beset on every side with challenges and has lost much of his…
Category: Recensio Libri
A Man from a Different Age
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer ChurchillVolume IVisions of Glory 1874-1932By: William ManchesterNarrated by: Frederick DavidsonLength: 41 hrs and 19 mins The Romance of the 19th century was instilled into Winston. It was this vision of a great people that began him on his journey to be the man of the hour. His childhood was one of noble…
Communicating Trust
Children of Ruin (2019)By: Adrian TchaikovskyLength: 15 hrs and 26 mins Tchaikovsky continues the adventure he began in Children of Time and the exploration of communication, natural time travel, and the transcendence of ideas. The characters we are presented with, while familiar are designed to not conform to common human thought processes and conventions. These…
Ideal Introduction
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Basic System Understanding
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Flawed Utopia
Outland (2015) (rereleased 2019)By: Dennis TaylorLength: 10 hrs and 29 mins This is Taylor’s first book originally published in 2015 and re-released in 2019. It is interesting, but not as engaging as his Bobiverse series. His ability to take real technical details from today and interweave them with the technical details of science fiction allows…
Love Your Enemies: Crushing Contempt
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt (2019)By: Arthur Brooks What is more destructive to a long term relationship anger or contempt? I know the answer I would have given when I started this book and the conclusion I have now is different. Expressed anger is a way of…
Being Human
To Kill a Mocking Bird (1960)By Harper Lee It is with joy that I find that I am still filling some of the gaps in my education. Granted gaps are not something to boast in, but at this point, having read much more than I had previously, I find that I am really enjoying this…
United States Civil War: Three Series in Parallel
The Civil War in the United States is a subject that I am not ignorant about, but also felt I was sadly lacking in detail. I decided that I would read a history book on the subject. The trouble with reading just one History book is that you only get one perspective. Thus, reading multiple…
The Prequel
Here I am linking to another page that does not strictly fit under this category but is strongly concurrent with its purpose: Books Memories. Where Recensio Libri begins the series, Book Memories is the rambling prequel.