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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm a 37yo father of three. My goal is to write as I read. Like it is every year.

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Filling in My Gaps

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow 5 Comments

I made it a point earlier this year to try to be better. One of the things I told myself that I would do is read more books by black authors, especially those that I should have already read. I was assigned Should of Black Folk in college. I probably still have my copy on a bookshelf in my house but I doubt that I read it for class. Maybe enough to get by in case I was called on but I didn’t really read […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Booker T. Washington, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:53 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Booker T. Washington, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois ·
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The Series Conclusion

The Last Emperox by John Scalzi

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

Let’s be honest here, if you are reading a review about the third book in a trilogy, you already read the series too. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this one. I really enjoyed the series but I can’t help but think that this one was a little rushed. It felt like a very abrupt ending and one that didn’t really go where I thought it would. I generally do not try to predict where I think a book or series is going […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: john scalzi

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:50 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: john scalzi ·
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Ahh yes, the Hamil-tome

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I love Hamilton. My kids love Hamilton but refuse to watch the duels as they are too scary (I’m pretty happy with that actually). I’m not quite obsessed with it but I did listen to the soundtrack for like three weeks straight after watching it. I put this book on hold and had to wait a few months for it as I suppose everyone else did the same thing after the movie came out. This book is basically a giant magazine article, read by Mariska […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jeremy mccarter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jeremy mccarter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter ·
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For work and for fun

Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by P.W. Singer and August Cole

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I really like P.W. Singer’s books. Wired for War is about the increasing usage of robotics in modern warfare and is on every reading list. He wrote Like War with Emerson Brooking about the weaponization of social media and it is excellent but also terrifying. Also with August Cole he wrote Ghost Fleet, a fictional account of a war with China that attempted to be a realistic possibility by grounding it in truth. Burn-In is like that. Working again with Cole, Burn-In is about an […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: August Cole, P.W. Singer, P.W. Singer and August Cole

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:48 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: August Cole, P.W. Singer, P.W. Singer and August Cole ·
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Another movie/show before the book

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

My wife and I watched the show at the beginning of the pandemic, back around April and I really liked it. I was not sure if I would like the show but I usually start watching my wife’s shows halfway through and I start asking questions and she gets annoyed so I sat down with her from the beginning and it was great. The casting was excellent. I added the book to my to-read list before we finished the show and it took nearly six […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Celeste Ng

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Celeste Ng ·
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