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# Book Progress 01.13.26
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/book-progress-01-13-26/
- Published: 2026-01-13T18:49:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-13T18:49:19.000Z
- Description: BOOK TECH BOOK TECH
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: book report

## 📚 Book Reading Progress

▶️ Animate Progress 

![Giants: The Parallel Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2025/11/images.jpeg) 

### Giants: The Parallel Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

by John Stauffer

45% 

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What Happened 

**Updates** 
- [Fredrick Douglass ](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-fredrick-douglass-from-giants-the-parallel-lives-of-abraham-lincoln-and-frederick-douglass-by-john-stauffer/)...We're leaving Rochester and moving to Haiti! And t...
- [Abraham Lincoln ](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-abraham-lincoln-from-giants-the-parallel-lives-of-abraham-lincoln-and-frederick-douglass-by-john-stauffer/)...Elected without losing his Southern drawl. Immedia...

It seems we're about to get to the Civil War, which was largely a fault of the South and the North having completely different ideals and trying to conciliate with each other, which was a losing battle to begin with. 

![The Pencil](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2026/01/download--9-.jpeg) 

### The Pencil

by Henry Petroski

5% 

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![Story of the Eye](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2026/01/8126clX9ziL._AC_UF1000-1000_QL80_.jpg) 

### Story of the Eye

by Georges Bataille

34% 

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![Washington: A Life](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2026/01/81A169iXn7L._AC_UF1000-1000_QL80_.jpg) 

### Washington: A Life

by Ron Chernow

8% 

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What Happened 

**Updates** 
- [George Washington ](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-george-washington-from-washington-a-life-by-ron-chernow/)...An emotional young person who, at a very young age...

George Washington made a bid for a Native American life because the Native Americans (some tribes) were teamed up with the French, and sometimes tribes were teamed up with the British. But the British and French were technically playing both of them on each other. Then he had to escape by swimming across icy water. He went home, had dysentery, and then won an election to be a burgess. 

![Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2026/01/91JfLA-Tb6L._UF1000-1000_QL80_.jpg) 

### Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

by Ryo Shirakome

5% 

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What Happened 

**Updates** 
- [Hajime ](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-hajime-from-arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest-by-ryo-shirakome/)...You didn't know that this edgelord could be so edg...
- [Yue ](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-yue-from-arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest-by-ryo-shirakome/)...Most of the characters in this story are flat in t...

The bunny girl also has mana. It seems like that's just a character thing where the author can just randomly decide that people have mana going through them. The distinction between monsters and people is that monsters in this universe have mana going through them, so it just makes them a monster class?