Leo Vidal Book Reviews

  Book Review: The Lost Christmas Advent By J.D. Sephton · 24 Stories for the Nights Before Christmas The Lost Christmas Advent is a charming and thoughtfully assembled collection of Christmas stories that invites readers to rediscover the holiday through the eyes of earlier generations. Bringing together historical stories from different countries and literary traditions, along with one newly written historical tale, the book offers an alternative to the familiar Christmas stories that dominate the season. Organized as an Advent reading experience, the collection provides one story for each evening from December 1 through December 24, followed by a longer story for Christmas Day. It is an appealing concept that encourages readers to slow down, make reading part of their holiday routine, and rediscover the pleasures of storytelling. What makes this book special One of the collection’s greatest strengths is its variety. Rather than presenting Christmas as a single, predictable celeb...

Book Review: From Rural Haiti to AI How Claude, ChatGPT and AI Assistants Can Change Your Life and Your Business By Johnny Jean-Baptiste What does a boy growing up in a remote Haitian village without electricity have in common with the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence? In Johnny Jean-Baptiste’s From Rural Haiti to AI , the answer is education, determination, and the power of technology to open doors that once seemed impossible to reach. Jean-Baptiste tells the remarkable story of his journey from Gaspard, a small village in northwestern Haiti, to a successful career in banking, business, and education in the United States. Growing up in a community where families carried water from streams and relied on kerosene lamps after dark, he learned early that education could provide opportunities unavailable through any other means. His mother, who had never studied beyond the eighth grade, made education her greatest gift to her children. Her words—“The only thing I can give ...