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I'm a 34yo father of a magnificent daughter and her baby brother. I participate in CBR because I want to share my enthusiasm for reading while helping a great cause. I'm pretty good at the reading part and pretty bad at the writing part.

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A Finale and two novellas

Scourged (The Iron Druid Chronicles #9), The Purloined Poodle (Oberon's Meaty Mysteries #1), and The Squirrel on the Train (Oberon's Meaty Mysteries #2) by Kevin Hearne

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            I really love the Iron Druid Chronicles and Scourged is a great finale.  I’m hard pressed to think of many other series wherein we see so much growth in the main character.  I find this especially true given the series is 9 books long plus several novellas and a collection of short stories.  It seems as though it would be very easy to become formulaic and keep the main character exactly the same but Kevin Hearne does not do that and it make me very happy. The Iron Druid Chronicles is a very nerdy […]

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4/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

This is how you end a trilogy!

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

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I had a journey with this book.  It first became available in October but I had several other books checked out, so I returned it and put it on hold again.  I got it again in December right before a vacation, which in years past was great timing, but with two children, both under three at the time, vacations are no longer the time to get some reading accomplished.  After this vacation, I had to return home earlier than the rest of my family and so I paced the airport with my headphones in listening to the book at double […]

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4/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #11

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

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The Sleepwalkers is one of the most thorough books I have recently read.  It attempts to describe and make sense of the factors that led to WWI.  The author attempts to discover the real causes beyond the notion that the war was inevitable.  It’s a nearly impossible task that I think Christopher Clark does quite well.  His findings do not provide a clear or simple answer but it is comprehensive and much better than the tired tropes we learned about in high school history class. I think that one of the most interesting, and also depressing, aspects of the lead […]

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4/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #10

Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World by Ian Bremmer

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“America will remain the world’s only superpower for the foreseeable future. But what sort of superpower should it be? What role should America play in the world? What role do you want America to play?” Ian Bremmer is political scientist, perhaps best known for the “J-Curve.”  The “J-Curve” describes the relationship between a country’s openness and it’s stability.  In Superpower, Bremmer outlines three possibilities for the future of America and asks the readers to make up their own minds as to where they stand.  He argues each case as convincingly as the next and as a reader, you find yourself […]

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3/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #9

The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

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The Future of Power was written by the man who coined the term “soft power” in the 1980s and is an expert on foreign affairs.  Joseph S. Nye Jr. first gained acclaim when he founded, with Robert Keohane, the idea of neoliberalism, as it relates to international relations.  It is one of the two major approaches, with neorealism, that govern the field. Borrowing from the wikipedia entry, neoliberalism is “a school of thought which believes that states are, or at least should be, concerned first and foremost with absolute gains rather than relative gains to other states.”  Neorealism is a […]

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3/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

Getting to know some new authors in a familiar setting

Canto Bight (Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi) by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller

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There won’t be any spoilers for Star Wars in this review.  This book also contains no spoilers for the movies.   Canto Bight is a new location to the Star Wars universe.  It is a planet that is relevant only because on it rests the city of Canto Bight.  Canto Bight, the place, is Las Vegas and Dubai but more extravagant.  Canto Bight, the book, is a collection of short stories follows a several minor characters, heretofore unknown to the greater Star Wars universe. So, I love the Star Wars new cannon audiobooks.  I never read the books from the […]

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3/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #8

The World America Made by Robert Kagan

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First of all, I am on a roll with my professional reading so far this year.  I have another completed book to review and I’m halfway through another already.  While it may sound like conceit, I am really impressed with myself so far.  I made it a point this year to do a better job of, not just reading, but maximizing my time and so far, so good. Anyways, The World America Made made was a short look at the policies and decision throughout the history of America, with emphasis on the four most recent presidents, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and […]

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3/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #7

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

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I looked forward to reading this book for a while.  I really enjoyed another of the author’s books, The Generals, and its critical take on U.S. military leadership.  Fiasco did not disappoint. Fiasco is the story of the early part of the Iraq War.  There is a little background so that one understands the main players, namely Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, and then it jumps headfirst into a chronological discussion of the decisions made and their repercussions.  Fiasco discusses how the war was basically preordained.  The decision to go to war was made before the evidence was evaluated, if it ever […]

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3/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |


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