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# Book Progress 1.11.26
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/book-progress-1-11-26/
- Published: 2026-01-12T05:18:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-12T05:20:48.000Z
- Description: an angry young man who got ahead in life by having plot armor while the family and other generals around him very much didnt
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: book report

## 📚 Book Reading Progress

▶️ Animate Progress 

![The Great Bridge](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2025/10/the-great-bridge-9781451683233_hr.jpg) 

### The Great Bridge

by David McCullough

75% 

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What Happened 

the epilogue was really long, the political fraud stuff became a bit overbearing to read about, the end of wash. roeblings life and how he unretired in his 80s was really interesting

![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

37% 

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What Happened 

the south has always been a moralizing pit of immorality, and the forefathers that made it that way are alive in this story

![The Prince of Tides](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2025/12/81P6o-DfJxL._AC_UF894-1000_QL80_.jpg) 

### The Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy

37% 

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What Happened 

both predictable and unpredicatable. tigers, wingos, and prisoners oh my. the best part was the fiction story in the fiction book. these are deeply damaged people, holy shit

![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

2% 

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What Happened 

a pencil (noun) penis OR broomstick. engineering has been around since we could iterate on design. but most engineers arent good writers it turns out

![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

9% 

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What Happened 

rip marcelle. lots of bodily fluids, no one arresting naked teenagers for some reason

![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

0% 

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What Happened 

an angry young man who got ahead in life by having plot armor while his family and other generals around him very much didnt

![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

0% 

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What Happened 

why am i doing this to myself