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My Other Latest Book · 9 August 2025


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I forgot to mention that I have another latest book out there. (I actually wonder if “another latest” is a thing. Hmm.)


I released six books on August 1, 2025. (Four of them are books of screenplays that I had already published digitally. But I figure that releasing them in print form means that I released them. So I am counting them.) I also released 101 DailyPrompt Pieces: Poetry, Prose, and Pith, which I wrote about in a previous post. But the other book I released is called The UnExamined Life.


You might have heard the Socrates quote, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” I have heard it a quite few times recently, and decided that it deserved a bit more thought. So I wrote a piece of fiction about it. The first section is about a man who lived an unexamined life. He certainly thought it worth living, but that section of the book is pretty short, as you might imagine.


The second part of the book is a series of conversations with two characters. They just talk. I know. It does not sound like a book that lots of people would read. After all, we barely talk to each other these days. At least not in person. We just rant and rave to and about each other on social media. We think that is communication, but it is not. Okay. We probably do not even think it is communication, but we let is suffice. Strange beings we are.


The book is short. I did not intend it that way, but it sort of stopped itself. The story could have gone on, but the characters just wanted time to think about what they were discussing. So they wanted me to stop narrating. I know that sounds silly, but it is sorta what happened. My characters seem to have minds of their own. They take stories in directions that I may or may not intend. Ah well. It sometimes turns out okay.


I must tell you that if you decide to check out this book, it might make you think. It might make you examine what your foundation is. What your worldview is. And that is a scary proposition. Then again, if you do not want to examine your life, you would not want to check it out anyway.


At any rate.


I am not sure that people really want to examine their lives, but that might be why we have such depression and anxiety these days. So if you want to do a little self-examination, you can see how a couple fictional characters do it first. And you can do that by checking out my other latest book. The UnExamined Life.

© 2025 Michael T. Miyoshi

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