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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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The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy – well, books 2 and 3

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

Death's End by Cixin Liu

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The first book in the series, The Three-Body Problem, is one of the most popular books in Chinese according to wikipedia.  The Three-Body Problem was the first Asian novel to win the Hugo Award for best novel.  I read it at the end of last year and waited a few months for the next two to become available.  I was able to listen to books 2 and 3 back-to-back which was really nice. So this trilogy is science fiction, but what I would consider hard-SF.  That’s not to say that I coined the term, just that the specific definition of […]

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5/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

Beautiful and Tragic

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

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I chose to read this book because I saw it on the to-read list of a baseball player I really like, Sean Doolittle.  Doolittle is a very good player and someone who is known for being an even better person.  He is also considered one of the most, let’s say intellectual, players in baseball and maybe sports as a whole.  He attended the University of Virginia, in my home state, so I’ve always felt an affinity for Doolittle.  He posted a picture of his current to-do list and baseball analyst Keith Law, another favorite of mine, and Law tweeted that […]

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4/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

The John Masterson Trilogy or A Prepper’s Dream

One Second After by William R. Forstchen

One Year After by William R. Forstchen

The Final Day by William R. Forstchen

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TL:DR **I enjoyed the series but I cannot separate it from the virtue-signaling inherent in the narrative.** I have many thoughts about this series, as a whole and individually.  First, I read this because two different friends just read it and loved it.  While both friends are in the military, once is left leaning and the other leans right.  That is an important part of this because I was very turned off by the front over which told me that the introduction was written by New Gingrich, who coincidently was a MAJOR figure in the last book I read, chronologically. […]

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4/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

THIS is my jam!

The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki

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I became aware of the author, Steve Kornacki, on election night 2016.  He was the very excited NBC analyst covering the races on the “big board” all night.  Steve was the guy who would zoom in on a state and recall, by district or city, where votes were likely coming or outstanding.  I tried for years to deny my love of politics and my innate desire to be a full-on political junkie and I found a kindred spirit in Steve Kornacki.  I started following him on twitter and when I learned he was writing a book, I was very interested. […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Great Bookend for The Guns of August

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

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 Shout out to faintingviolet and JenK for the EXCELLENT recommendation.  They recommended this one after I read The Guns of August last year. Paris 1919 is an account of all the events that took place after the armistice that ended WWI through the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. MacMillan crafts the narrative around the three major figures and personalities at the conference: US President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and French President Georges Clemenceau and seeks to prove that the Treaty of Versailles did not lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler.  She also acknowledges that […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

What a wild and crazy guy

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

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I love Steve Martin.  The first time my wife visited my house when we were dating, we watched The Jerk.  He is a damn national treasure.  I was interested in the reading this book for some time now, six years according to Goodreads, and it was not quite what I was expecting and yet I loved it all the same. This book seemed almost like Martin wrote it reluctantly and somehow I enjoyed that.  I suppose I expected Born Standing Up to be a typical memoir type book filed with anecdotes and funny stories.  That is a part of this […]

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2/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Some Early Steinbeck

The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck

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If you have noticed a lot of Steinbeck reviews the last few months, that’s on me.  I currently live in the Monterey Bay Area and decided that while I live here, I should read the works of the man who was so inspired by this place.  Steinbeck is from Salinas, CA, the largest city in the area but many of his books take place in and around the county.  The famous Cannery Row of Monterey is actually named for his book, which popularized the nickname of the former Ocean View Avenue.  Monterey loves celebrating Steinbeck.  Just today, on one of […]

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2/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

S.O.S.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

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Dead Wake is a non-fiction account of what happened to the Lusitania, the ocean liner sunk by a German u-boat that led to the the United States joining WWI.  That was the extent of my knowledge about the topic prior to this book.  I remember learning about the sinking of the Lusitania in high school but like most US history classes, we were racing through the 20th century at the end of the school year so it was a footnote, along with the Zimmerman Telegram which is also a part of this book. The thing about this book, and I […]

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1/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |


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