Cannonball Read 11

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thewheelbarrow

I'm a 35yo father of a little girl who will run the world someday and her sweet little brother. I finished my first cannonball last year and I want to work harder on the writing this year.

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Maybe we don’t think so good

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

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This book, by the author of Moneyball, is essentially a biography of the two men who did more to change the way we think about thinking.  Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are Israeli psychologists who discovered heuristics and connected the fields psychology and economics, helping create the new field of behavioral economics.  If you recognize either name, it is probably Daniel Kahneman who wrote the outstanding book Thinking, Fast and Slow a few years ago.  At the beginning of that book he writes about his friend and partner and collaborator and how the book would not have been possible without […]

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1/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

A little too timely

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking

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I picked up this book to be a small break from my all the Steinbeck I’ve been reading lately.  I like to alternate a little between fiction and non-fiction.  Within the non-fiction, I like to mix it up between professional reading and just interesting.  Usually, there is some overlap and I think that applies here.  Also, one of the authors, P.W. Singer is coming to speak at my school next week and I wanted to read it before he arrived.  I read an earlier book of his, Wired for War, about robotics and unmanned platforms and the future of war. […]

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1/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

A Road Trip with a Dog

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

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I read this due to my Steinbeck kick.  I was a little worried about reading it immediately after The Grapes of Wrath but it was the perfect antidote to my melancholy mood.  This is a travel journey by one of America’s preeminent authors who decided that that he no longer felt in touch with America and her people and wanted to find her again.  Discontented seems to best describe the way he felt with his life when he set off on his journey in 1960 at the age of 58.  I think he may have also been trying to recapture […]

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1/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Mine eyes have seen the glory

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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Buckle up, this one is pretty long.  I finished this book a few days ago and the impression it made on me was so visceral, I had to wait to write about it.   When I consider what it takes to be a classic, regardless of the medium, my first thought is timelessness.  Will this item stand the test of time and all that entails?  I believe that the term classic is bandied about too often and too frivolously. We call anything that we like in that moment a classic and I think that is inaccurate at best.  I did […]

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1/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

CANNONBALL!!!

Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano

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So, I follow Shea on twitter and really appreciate his brand of humor.  He is a writer for the sports and pop-culture blog The Ringer.  Shea is 100% enthusiastic at all times and gets just as excited for other as he does for himself.  This book is a collection of essays and artwork about the NBA from 1980 to now.  It is full of ridiculous essays like a draft of the greatest fictional basketball players and the comprehensive list of the most disrespectful dunks in the history of the game.  I LOVED this because I am of a similar age […]

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12/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Chief of Staff Reading List #15-17

The Guns of August; World Order; The Face of Battle by Barbara Tuchman; Henry Kissinger; John Keegan

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Ok, this is crappy and I know it but I am finishing the cannonball.  Last year I finished book 52 on the 31st but I was a dozen reviews behind.  This year, I got to 64 books and I’m still behind on my reviews but I can get there and I read all of these books for the same reason and that is professional development at work which makes them inherently less interesting to those who do not share my profession.  Anyway, here I go. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman I read this book for a few reasons […]

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12/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

More like Ron Churn-ow

Grant & Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

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I read Chernow’s biography of Hamilton last year because, well, I can’t see the musical.  Also, I majored in History as an undergrad and my favorite era is the American Revolution.   Hamilton, the biogrpaphy, was excellent.  It was the first major biography that read despite a good friend recommending Chernow a few years ago.  I enjoyed Hamilton enough that I added Grant to my queue as soon as it was added to my library and after eight months of waiting, I got my turn. Before I get too into the book, I feel the need to discuss my upbringing […]

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12/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

Living in Steinbeck’s World

Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, & Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

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Save your drafts as you go! I lost a really long double review for these books due to my own negligence.  Ugh….   I moved to Monterey a year and a half ago, the home of Steinbeck and the setting for both of these novels.  Both take place at real locations in the greater Monterey area, though Tortilla Flat is a fictional neighborhood, which added to my interest.  Both novels follow a few main characters who live together and experience the effects of their shenanigans.  Both novels reflect the attitudes of the era in which they were written as well; […]

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12/18/2018 's CBR10 Review No:45 |


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