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Tyler and McKenna at the Library of Congress Main Reading Room Overlook, Washington, D.C., October 2022.
As a lover of learning, Tyler is an avid reader of books and listener of recorded audiobooks. As is typical of bookworms, he is also a collector of print editions. Most of his reading interest lies in historical non-fiction, especially books on the history of the United States and the Western United States, particularly westward expansion. He also enjoys biographies on historical and religious figures, history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leadership, management, and improvement generous; and writings pertaining to mortuary science and funeral history.
Tyler is an advocate for education, higher learning, and continued education. Tyler knows that through books, the world is at anyone's fingertips. As such he is a proponent for reading and literacy for children, youth, and adults. Through reading, doors are opened and opportunities abound.
"If you are going to get anywhere in life
you have to read a lot of books."
-Roald Dahl
Just a Few of Tyler's Favorite Books
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice; by Adam Makos
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family,
by Duong Van Mai Elliott
The New Testament
Habits of a Peacemaker, by Steven T. Collis.
T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People, by Ian Karmel.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande.
How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority, by Blay Scroggins.
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, by Rosamund Stone Zander.
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Dead, by Robert A. Jensen.
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom, by Corrie ten Boom.
A Man Called Otto, by Fredrik Backman.
The Library Book, by Susan Orlean.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, by Ben Carson.
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, by Rinker Buck.
The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah.
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II, by Adam Makos.
"A library is infinity under a roof."
- Gail Carson Levine
A Few Favorite Authors (in no particular order)
Adam Makos
Dave Ramsey
Dr. John Delony
Matthew Buckley
Dr. Gary Chapman
Max Lucado
Gary L. Thomas
J.K. Rowling
Erik Larson
Sheri Dew
William H. McRaven
Carolyn Jessop
John D. Barton
Clair M. Poulson
Louis L'Amour
David McCullough
Thomas Sowell
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one."
- George R.R. Martin
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