In short, I read a lot in 2024.
In total, I read 42 different books. For me, that’s a great amount. My goal each year is to read 30 books. I well exceeded my goal. I greatly enjoyed most of the books I read. What follows, though, is a list of the 14 books I most enjoyed during my 2024 reading journey listed in the order I completed the books over the course of the year.
Continue reading “My Favorite Books – 2024”
I have been told that I have a great voice for speaking.
I am often asked to read scripture in church. I have a daily radio column on WRKC (Wilkes-Barre, PA) where I read “Word of Inspiration” for their Radio Home Visitor program. I have been doing this for decades, remotely, from New Jersey.
I also have two podcasts…
I do a lot of public speaking…
And so forth.
But, until last week, I had never done “professional work” in a professional recording studio.
I have now. It has been a blast!
Continue reading “The “Voice Talent””
“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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I wrote what I believe is an amazing and wonderfully motivating book. It’s titled 365.2 and it chronicles the time (in 2022) when I ran every single day – for an entire year.
Continue reading “Bid Me Run…”
So much of life is a process. We work diligently to accomplish tasks, and once accomplish them, we set our minds to new tasks.
Ever forward. Never stopping. There is always a new challenge facing us – a new goal, something different that we need to achieve.
And achieve we must.
Continue reading “And So It Begins…”
People ask me about retirement. What do you do now? Are you slowing down?
Slowing down?!
No way. I’m gearing up!
Continue reading “Slowing Down? No Way!”
I’m not a famous author, at least not yet. Maybe I never will be.
But, as I take this journey, It seems like I am “arriving” more and more as an author of some note. I an no longer a nobody, that’s for sure.
As I look back at my journey as an author, I think back to all of the steps I have taken as I have lived this dream aspect of my life.
Each positive step, I might call a “stage of arriving.”
Continue reading “Stages of “Arriving””
Hey, for a moment there I felt pretty famous. My book, The Least Among Them, was listed in National Review Magazine as one of the Best Books of 2021.
I’ve always wanted to be an author. And now I am an author. And a book I wrote was in a national magazine as a best book of 2021.
Who woulda thunk it?
Little old me?
No way.
Continue reading “What Is Success?”
My new book on the history of the Yankees, The Least Among Them, is getting some great early reviews.
This book is available for pre-order now and will be released in early October 2021.
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The Manhattan Book Review gave the book a glowing writeup which read in part:
“The Least Among Them by Paul Russell Semendinger tells the story – covering twenty-nine players in their unique Yankees history when they were given one chance to shine..
Semendinger does a truly fantastic job of setting the scene.
The book is also filled with pictures of baseball cards, historic photos, score sheets, and more…
The Least Among Them is a special book that shines a light on a number of Yankees who have probably not been talked about since their brief moments of fame..
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The following is the latest press release from my publisher, Artemesia Publishing:
“(The Least Among Them) is the ultimate insider book.” – Marty Appel
“This charming and meticulously researched book will remind you of baseball’s power to change and enrich lives far beyond the diamond.” – Jonathan Eig
Continue reading ““The Least Among Them” Earns New Praise!”
Sarah Meckler speaks with me about my novel, Scattering the Ashes.
The story centers on Sam Holmes, a young man who finds himself on a somewhat unusual journey after his father’s death. The experience helps Sam to learn more about his father as well as himself and his plans for his own life.
Here is THE LINK
I hope you enjoy this!
I was so thrilled to read this wonderful review for my novel, “Scattering the Ashes.”
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