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# Book Progress 01.17.26
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/book-progress-01-17-26/
- Published: 2026-01-17T06:43:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-17T06:43:22.000Z
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- 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

47% 

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What Happened 

**Updates**  
  
\- [Abraham Lincoln](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-abraham-lincoln-from-giants-the-parallel-lives-of-abraham-lincoln-and-frederick-douglass-by-john-stauffer/)...Believed in his angel numbers drafting everything ...  
\- [Fredrick Douglass](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-fredrick-douglass-from-giants-the-parallel-lives-of-abraham-lincoln-and-frederick-douglass-by-john-stauffer/)...NYE party celebrating the Proclamation, be there o...  
  
pulling into the end here, shocked and frustrated at how this young nation has wasted its talent consistently on subjugation

![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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What Happened 

**Updates**  
  
\- [Simone](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-simone-from-story-of-the-eye-by-georges-bataille/)...The way this book was written, a woman possessed a...  
\- [Marcelle](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-marcelle-from-story-of-the-eye-by-georges-bataille/)...The first to die in the story, she knew that if sh...  
\- [Narrator](https://www.bramadams.dev/thoughts-on-narrator-from-story-of-the-eye-by-georges-bataille/)...Finding moments and describing acts of sexorrism w...  
  
The author with his paralytic father and mother who went insane honestly had a crazier life than his characters.  
  
(Dont you know ... an eyeball is an egg ...)

![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

11% 

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![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

13% 

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What Happened 

im disappointed, it never got better. poor writing, stale characters, lost the charm of the first one (as is the case in these OP stories (im looking at you solo leveling)). DNF.