I wondered if there was a flip side to the hero’s journey, and it turns out there is, so this week, we are diving into The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger.

This month I’m going to look at some of the psychology behind what makes a good story, starting with this weeks book, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work by Joseph Campbell.

Going to finish out Ari H. Mendelson’s oeuvre with what I believe is his first novel, Bias Incident.

The president for this month is Richard Milhouse Nixon, making this weeks book Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas.

Rounding out our month in showbusiness, this week’s book is All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks.

Keeping up with fun stuff, this weeks book is Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker

Decided to spend August with showbusiness, so this week’s book is Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession by Laurence Leamer.

After Camelot fell, the nation was left in the hands of this months president, Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President, by Robert Dallek.

We’ll round out the month with American Gun: A History of the US in Ten Firearms by Chris Kyle with William Doyle.

Continuing my learning of American Firearms, this weeks book is Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed American and the Men Who Invented Them by John Bainbridge

Continuing my love affair with historical firearms, we’re gonna take a more objective look at the works of John Moses Browning with this weeks book, The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World by Nathan Gorenstein.

Creeping ever closer to our modern presidents, this weeks book is An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963 by Robert Dallek.

I decided that this month I need a much needed break from serious topics, so after my break from real stuff with fiction, I am diving into the possibilities provided by ancient history, this week with Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt by John Anthony West.

I’ve waffled a bit, from theme, to not theme, back to theme, with the theme being ancient history, so this week’s book is Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.

I was originally going to read The Federalist Papers this week, but honestly, I need a break from politics, so instead I’m reading Forgotten Civilization: New Discoveries on the Solar Induced Dark Age by Robert M. Schoch, PhD, with Catherine Ulissey.

Finishing out the Kingmaker series by Ari H. Mendelson, this weeks book is Just Power.

Continuing with our presidential learning spree, we move on to the next president in line with Eisenhower: Soldier and President  by Stephen Ambrose.

Continuing with Libertarian thought, this weeks book is On Liberalism by Ludwig von Mises.

Last week we learned about the man, this week we read some of his ideals, with For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Rothbard.

This month kicks of political season, so we’re going to take a look at some of the founding ideologies behind libertarianism with Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness by Timothy Sandefur.

This month we’re going to be learning about the president who had to pick up the pieces after FDR died, with Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman by Alonzo L Hamby.

Continuing my mental break from sad things, I’m going this week with About My Mother True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and her Baseball Obsessed Mother by Peggy Rowe.

Taking a little break from economics and literal depression reading, and going with some more exciting history with this weeks book, The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan.

This is my last book on the Depression, FDR, and the mess he made of America: New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy has Damaged America by Burton Folsom.

The man who is ACTUALLY responsible for the shitshow that was The Great Depression in America, FDR: A Biography by Ted Morgan

This week we are exploring what the economic policies that were implemented were and how they went wrong with The Failure of the “New Economics”: An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies by Henry Hazlitt

Continuing the horror, this weeks book is The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine

I am gearing up to spend the next four-five weeks exploring the incredibly awful time from 1929 to 1941, starting with Amity Shlaes book The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.

I’m going to keep going with Ari Mendelson’s series, making this weeks book Due Process, book 2 of the Kingmaker Series

Our final president in 2023 is number 31, Herbert Hoover, making this weeks book of the week Herbert Hoover: A Life by Glen Jeansonne