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About schoultz

CEO of Fifth Factor Leadership - Speaker, consultant, coach. Formerly Director, Master of Science in Global Leadership at University of San Diego; prior to that, 30 years in the Navy as a Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) officer.

The Jersey Brothers – a Missing Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home, by Sally Mott Freeman

Posted on April 15, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book:  My wife read this and was really impressed – she rarely gushes about a book,  but she gushed about this one, and when she gushes, I listen and try to read the book. She bought copies for many … Continue reading →

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Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett

Posted on February 16, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: I’d read and really enjoyed Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto and had read a couple of good reviews of this book. I listened to it on audible. Summary in 4 Sentences: Told in first person from a mature … Continue reading →

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Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingslover

Posted on February 9, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group. Pulitzer prize winner for literature for 2023. Also we had read (I twice)  Kingslover’s book The Poisonwood Bible and loved it. Summary in 3 Sentences: A novel written in the first … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson

Posted on February 6, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: I had recently read (listened to) Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs and thought he did a great job.  My wife was reading this Musk bio and kept commenting on it. So I uploaded the audible and got … Continue reading →

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The Desert and the Sea, by Michael Scott Moore

Posted on January 16, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book:  January 2024 selection  by my SEAL book club, in part because one of our members knows the author and was able to get him to join our discussion. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Michael Scott Moore was kidnapped in 2012 … Continue reading →

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The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas

Posted on January 2, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group because none of us had read it, though it is included on most lists of the greatest novels ever written.  That said, most in the group were intimidated by its length … Continue reading →

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Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

Posted on January 1, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my Sci Fi Reading Group – when I offered to bring in a friend of mine who is currently in Astronaut training with NASA to discuss it. Summary in 3 Sentences: The book takes place … Continue reading →

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The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel

Posted on January 1, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: My wife read it several years ago and never quit insisting that I read it. She’d gifted it to our kids. Summary in 3 Sentences: At age 20, an  unusually intelligent, but socially introverted young man decided … Continue reading →

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On Great Fields – the Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, by Ronald White

Posted on December 22, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book:This is the second biography I’ve read of Joshua Chamberlain.  I was so impressed with what I’d read about him in Killer Angels, and how he was portrayed in the movie Gettysburg. Also West Point chose him as … Continue reading →

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I Robot, by Isaac Asimov

Posted on December 10, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club Summary in 3 Sentences: These are a series of stories told in an interview many decades in the future, with a woman at the end of her career as a robo-psychologist … Continue reading →

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