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# Book Progress 12.24.25
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/book-progress-12-24-25/
- Published: 2025-12-24T16:04:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-24T16:27:37.000Z
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- 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

51% 

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![A Life and Times: Fryderyck Chopin](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2025/11/916J5jKARBL._UF1000-1000_QL80_.jpg) 

### A Life and Times: Fryderyck Chopin

by Alan Walker

59% 

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![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

17% 

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![Thinking Like Your Editor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2025/12/61QQal1FzUL._AC_UF1000-1000_QL80_.jpg) 

### Thinking Like Your Editor

by Susan Rabiner

49% 

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![The Power of Full Engagement](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2025/12/61Xy4XZiuLL._AC_UF1000-1000_QL80_.jpg) 

### The Power of Full Engagement

by Jim Loehr

16% 

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![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

0% 

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[Heart of Frédéric Chopin - Wikipedia![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/icon/wikipedia-12.png)Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.Contributors to Wikimedia projects![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/thumbnail/Chopin_herz_-cropped-.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%5Fof%5FFr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%5FChopin?ref=bramadams.dev)

> The Polish composer [Frédéric Chopin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%5FChopin?ref=bramadams.dev) had a fear of being [buried alive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature%5Fburial?ref=bramadams.dev)

Like father, like son.

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Rest is an active skill that can be trained

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I implore you, burn my unfinished work, for I respect the public too much to foist upon them my unfinished ideas

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Represent the best good faith argument you can make for your opposition so your reader doesn't have to, especially if you have their complete attention

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One funeral after another after the towers went down

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It's one of the blessings of parenthood to be hated and separated by your child

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Nobody understands NYC, least of all New Yorkers