DreadPennies

Send your questions to DreadPennies@gmail.com Bok reviews at: Crackerstack.substack.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! Get vinyl signs for your business, lettering for home walls, reflective decals for bicycles, and more at my brother’s store: www.wallquotes.com And my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

To send in a question: DreadPennies@gmail.com Whether I know the answer or not, I will answer it, lol. Crackerstack.substack.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! Get vinyl signs for your business, lettering for home walls, reflective decals for bicycles, and more at my brother’s store: www.wallquotes.com And my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

How do I get out of this truck and into full-time art? Crackerstack.substack.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! Get vinyl signs for your business, lettering for home walls, reflective decals for bicycles, and more at my brother’s store: www.wallquotes.com And my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

A quick year-end review of many things from 2022.

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How do I keep track of what I read in a given year? For the past 13 years straight I've tracked it all in a Word document. Over time I've refined the process. Why don't I just use Goodreads? I do use Goodreads, and mostly I hate it. Here's why. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! Get vinyl signs for your business, lettering for home walls, reflective decals for bicycles, and more at my brother’s store: www.wallquotes.com And my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Oh, yeah. It happened. But it was kind of cool. But it also sucked. Here are the details. Please consider donating to the Weedman family to help with the leukemia treatments. They are 40% of the way to Milan's goal! https://www.gofundme.com/f/leukemia-support-for-milan-weedman-family

Please subscribe! I never thought I'd enjoy a book about a city's founding, but Sam Anderson did a really good job here--not just with his research, but with his non-chronological way of laying it all out. Thanks for watching! https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Town-Fantastical-Basketball-World-class/dp/0804137331 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! Get vinyl signs for your business, lettering for home walls, reflective decals for bicycles, and more at my brother’s store: www.wallquotes.com And my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Stacy Perman's 2009 book about In-N-Out Burger gives us a biographical look at the Snyder family, what the grandparents built, how the sons managed it, and how it got to the third generation. This one was REALLY freaking good. Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/N-Out-Burger-Behind-Counter-Fast-Food/dp/0061346721 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! Get vinyl signs for your business, lettering for home walls, reflective decals for bicycles, and more at my brother’s store: www.wallquotes.com And my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

In 1579, an African man named Yasuke traveled to Japan with an Italian priest named Alessandro Valignano. The priest had Yasuke working for him as a bodyguard. When they got to Japan and met the daimyo, Oda Nobunaga, Valignano gifted Yasuke to him, setting him on a path to become the first known African samurai. This book is his story, and it’s really cool. Check it out. Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/African-Samurai-Yasuke-Legendary-Warrior/dp/1335044981/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! Get vinyl signs for your company, lettering for home walls, reflective decals for bicycles, and more at my brother’s store: www.wallquotes.com And my mother makes high-quality quilts: www.enchanteddesertquilter.com Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Thank you for helping to grow my channel this year. I finally got a thousand subscribers...now I need more "watch hours" so I can monetize this. I hope you guys like what I've been sharing, I sure love what I've been reading. Here's the link to George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation: https://cityofmeadowsplace.org/george-washingtons-thanksgiving-proclamation-of-1789/

Hi guys, here's a link to AetherCzar's post with a TON of eBooks dirt cheap or free. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror, paranormal, all of it, from some of the most exciting indie authors out there. If you're bored with bookstores and libraries, skim the sale here and see what's up! My books in the sale: REBEL HEART https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TPERR94 SLEEPLESS HOLLOW https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YLML9W6 KILL THE BEAST https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MZH8ZB7 MISTER FRIDAY https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KM94QHJ You can listen to MISTER FRIDAY here: https://anchor.fm/radcracker/episodes/Mister-Friday-A-DreadPennies-Production-e97vuf Thanks everyone! Be sure to check out my Mom's quilt shop (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) and my brother's vinyl lettering store (www.wallquotes.com) ! Keep up to date on my website, www.dreadpennies.com

Thanksgiving is in a week! I've got some books for you, and a breakdown. MAYFLOWER by Nathaniel Philbrick https://www.amazon.com/Mayflower-Story-Courage-Community-War/dp/0143111973 THEY KNEW THEY WERE PILGRIMS by John Turner https://www.amazon.com/They-Knew-Were-Pilgrims-Plymouth/dp/0300225504 THE MAYFLOWER by Rebecca Fraser https://www.amazon.com/Mayflower-Families-Voyage-Founding-America/dp/125010856X Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs, lettering, reflective decals for bicycles, and more: www.wallquotes.com My mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

I'll never get tired of recommending Gary Paulsen's classic HATCHET novels. In this one, BRIAN'S WINTER, we see Brian hold a little Thanksgiving in the woods while he's stranded. I want to talk about that. Get yourself a copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Brians-Winter-Custom-Book-Bundles/dp/0307929582 __________________________________________ Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs, lettering, reflective decals for bicycles, and more: www.wallquotes.com My mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

A bit of a long video, but this is a good one. Get your copy of Matthew S. Crawford's SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT here: https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/0143117467 And here's the NPR article that Logan sent me: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1131576176/trucking-drivers-jobs-shortage-high-school-teenagers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy my books! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs, lettering, reflective decals for bicycles, and more: www.wallquotes.com My mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Thank you for getting me past one of the initial hurdles here on YouTube. One thousand subs! I hope you guys like what you find here. Today's book is: A Thomas Jefferson Education, by Oliver DeMille. https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-Education-Generation-Twenty-First/dp/1615399917/ Buy my brother's vinyl lettering! www.wallquotes.com Buy handmade quilts from my mom! (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Buy my novels! https://a.co/d/f8dbKMW Thanks everyone.

Published in 2019, SLEEPLESS HOLLOW is simultaneously an original story as well as a follow-up to Irving's spooky New York classic. You can listen to an excellent audio production of the original on "Chilling Tales for Dark Nights" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQtoiB-Xn9I I'm following up my REBEL HEART art breakdown video (here: https://youtu.be/izv0fSK5Xsw) with this one so you've got an idea of what I learned in those first five years as an illustrator. I still made some mistakes here but the improvement is pretty apparent. Let me know what you think in the comments, and get your own copy of SLEEPLESS HOLLOW on Amazon: https://a.co/d/f8dbKMW Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs, lettering, reflective decals for bicycles, and more: www.wallquotes.com My mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

An old friend (code name Darrell) talked me into breaking down Jonathan Stroud's "Lockwood and Co." series. Here's a link to his first Bartimaeus novel, THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND: https://a.co/d/1Q8kxyG Get your copy of SLEEPLESS HOLLOW: https://a.co/d/f8dbKMW Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs, lettering, reflective decals for bicycles, and more: www.wallquotes.com My mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

I published my first book in 2014, knowing the art wasn't going to stand the test of time, but that I had to start somewhere. With eight more years and and hundreds of additional hours of experience, I've started looking back on my older art to explain what I'd do different today. So check out my wobbly baby steps, and trust that it will get better, lol. Note: I did not illustrate the covers for these books. That was Carter Reid, who now runs an Etsy shop with handmade monster crafts: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AdorablyEvilMonsters Get your copy of ENGINES OF LIBERTY: REBEL HEART: https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Heart-Engines-Graham-Bradley/dp/0692205306 Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs, lettering, reflective decals for bicycles, and more: www.wallquotes.com My mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Two days ago a prominent YouTuber and lawyer was brigaded by a group of online activists who claimed he threatened violence against one of them (he didn't.) After getting Nick Rekieta banned from Twitter, they proceeded to submit 40+ ethics complaints to the Minnesota state bar to get Nick's law license revoked, and then mass-flagged his popular channel. He was cut off mid-stream without warning or explanation. His fans and friends are rightly furious about this, and if you support free speech, I think you might be too. Fortunately Nick has backups on other platforms. Find him at rekietalaw.locals.com. Thanks for watching, guys.

Halloween is one of the Big Fun holidays out there, and here is a list of books for you to check out. I'm not going to link to them all here, but you can find most of them at your local library, so go have some fun! Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs of all kinds ( www.wallquotes.com ) and my mother makes high-quality quilts ( www.enchanteddesertquilter.com ) Thank you guys. Check out my Halloween sci-fi supernatural romp SLEEPLESS HOLLOW: https://a.co/d/dnopD8W Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

This is a story that deserves more time in the public consciousness. Listen to my rundown, then let me know what you think! Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs of all kinds (www.wallquotes.com) and my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Last weekend I saw a parallel between a current event in Massachusetts, and my favorite Mark Twain story. Here are my short thoughts on the matter. Let me know what you think! Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs of all kinds (www.wallquotes.com) and my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

OTD in 1620, the Mayflower and her crew + passengers set sail in earnest for the New World. I've come to love these people as I've read more about their stories, their fortitude, and their faith. Here's a list of books I've read over the last couple of years that I hope you'll enjoy. These aren't affiliate links, I don't get anything from you using them. If you're keen to support a small business, check out my brother's vinyl sign shop (and more!) at www.wallquotes.com, or my mother's quality handmade quilts at www.enchanteddesertquilter.com. Thanks everyone! MAYFLOWER by Nathaniel Philbrick https://www.amazon.com/Mayflower-Story-Courage-Community-War/dp/0143111973/ THE MAYFLOWER AND HER PASSENGERS by Caleb H. Johnson https://www.amazon.com/Mayflower-Her-Passengers-Caleb-Johnson/dp/1599264005/ A STRANGER AMONG SAINTS by Jonathan Mack https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Among-Saints-Survived-Jamestown/dp/1641605987 THE PILGRIM HYPOTHESIS by Timothy Ballard https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrim-Hypothesis-Timothy-Ballard/dp/1524412821 OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION by William Bradford https://www.amazon.com/Plymouth-Plantation-Modern-English/dp/1720937567 1620: A CRITICAL RESPONSE TO THE 1619 PROJECT by Peter Wood https://www.amazon.com/1620-True-Beginning-American-Republic/dp/1641771240 The "Mayflower Passengers" poster (and my video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1rY4gdQgs&t=588s ) https://store.thehistorylist.com/products/mayflower-passengers-and-those-who-survived-the-first-year-infographic-poster

Jack London died at the rioe young age of 40, but his work lives on today. While best known for WHITE FANG and THE CALL OF THE WILD, his short story "To Build A Fire" has a couple of layers to it that are worth exploring. Here are my short thoughts on the matter. Let me know what you think! Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs of all kinds (www.wallquotes.com) and my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com