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  Beauchamp Hall Danielle Steel   Released: November 20th, 2018 My 40th book for 2026 was Danielle Steel’s Beauchamp Hall.   This is another book that I have had for several years now and have just gotten around to reading. I've always heard of Danielle Steel and knew several people who enjoyed and collected her giant collection of books she has written.  Her writing is good, and I enjoyed the pace and narrative. In this book, Winona Farmington lives in a small town and works for a printing company.  After a white elephant gift exchange nets her some DVDs of the TV show Beauchamp Hall, Winnie binges the seasons and falls in love with the show.  Shortly after, she endures the lost of a deserved promotion and catches her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend in her own bed.  She quits the job, ends the relationship with both, and sets off to England to visit the set of Beauchamp Hall and how to catch a glimpse of filming.  Once there, ...

  A Promised Land Barack Obama   Released: November 17th, 2020 My 39th book for 2026 was Barack Obama’s A Promised Land.    This is the second Presidential Memoir I have read following Jimmy Carter's Keeping Faith 2 years ago.  I have been meaning to read this one for some time as I wanted to see how the presidency affected his ideas, methods, and beliefs.  I just finished Donald Trump's Surviving At The Top , and since I've been doing a good job of balancing books regardless of political persuasion, I figured I would look into the two most influential figures on each side. Ever since I watched Designated Survivor , I realized I could never be President of the United States.  Not because I have some inability, but because the stress and sheer cut-throat nature of American politics in the modern day is simply demeaning to all involved.  Since then, I have wanted to read books by various presidents to see what it was like to sit in that chair makin...