The Art of the Deal is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand The Trump. His story about the Tiffany founder making a handshake deal and keeping his word, even when it cost him dearly, was an illuminating character sketch. It also made me go ah-ha! for why his daughter is named Tiffany.

Mere Christianity is a good foundation, and even where it gives Christians something to muddle about in disagreement, it is spurring the christian to think about his faith. As you said, that is necessary to have the Faith. The Screwtape Letters is another book I read from him and I was genuinely angry that more people had not recommended it to me in my younger days. Once you start talking about it everyone is like ‘Oh yes I read that’ but they don’t tell other people to read it… I encourage anyone to read it ASAP. It’s a book of a senior demon administrator mentoring his nephew in the job of destroying the saints, through a series of letters. It claws away at the feeble pretend faith many fill the pews with and clobbers my own notions of what is important, to show instead what actually works: Faith alone in Christ Alone.

The Great Divorce is also a tremendous work that is somehow completely un-recognized. It has a similar way of showing in light of death what truly matters in life and how a rebellious heart will refuse even the most gentle light until oblivion takes it away.

FICTION:
Have you looked at the Forgotten Soldiers series by Joseph P. Simon?
https://smile.amazon.com/Forgotten-Soldiers-Tyrus-Chronicle-Book-ebook/dp/B00R0PCKOW/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3DCJP6PTLR057&dchild=1&keywords=joshua+p+simon&qid=1609770446&sprefix=joshua+p.+si%2Caps%2C234&sr=8-2

It’s a mil-fantasy series written from the perspective of a command officer (heroic in war) coming home to reunite with his family and finding home is not how he left it. Some of his friends stay with him and try to make life new again, but it will never be the same as it once was.

Pros: Strong characters & development
Good grasp of combat engagements
Good magical system
Positive on fatherhood, motherhood, and recovering a mind from combat to domestic life.

Cons: A bit convenient how some special abilities fit with the special problem to solve

Godspeed on the new year, thank you for the write up.

What do you think of the Bronze Age Pervert books? I read reviews of his books and I did not get what he is all about.

I haven’t read them either. I have come across them repeatedly on Amazon and have considered doing so, but I have always found neo-pagan LARPing to be largely pointless – especially these days.

In the interests of keeping an open mind, I’ll probably read Bronze Age Mindset at some point, but I think that Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day put it best:

But the godless neo-platonic ur-fascism advocated by Bronze Age Pervert is not a viable solution to a very real problem. Lacking as it does any basis in philosophy or objective morality, it is absolutely bound to fail. The Bronze Age Mindset is just that, a mindless primitivist reaction on which it is impossible to build or sustain a functional civilization.

Without Christianity, without the European nations, without the Graeco-Roman legal and philosophic traditions, there is no Western civilization. Which, of course, is why the only solution to the undermining and subversion of the West is to return to the three core pillars of the West.

I’m not a non-fiction reader unless it’s a Japanese manga (I know it’s totally different thing from your list), but these days it seems there are so many stories for Hollyweird to pick. The animation world is picking up momentum and I think they will catch up quickly.

The Japs tell better stories than Hollyweird, too. Their stories and ideas are actually original and interesting. And they get far, FAR better “bang for the buck” in terms of money spent on storytelling, animation, and effects.

For some reason, the Tom Kratman book reminds of Kill Bill when I saw the cover.

I’m not a non-fiction reader unless it’s a Japanese manga (I know it’s totally different thing from your list), but these days it seems there are so many stories for Hollyweird to pick. The animation world is picking up momentum and I think they will catch up quickly.