Cannonball Read 18

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One of my faves this year

Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News by Clint Watts

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I read Like War earlier this year by P.W. Singer which has the subtitle, the Weaponization of Social Media. I was at a conference for work and I was discussing the book with a colleague and she recommended Clint Watts to me.  She said that if I liked Singer, I’d love Watts.  Then one of her co-workers came up and raved about Watts and added that their organization works with him and that he was both brilliant and great. I added Messing with the Enemy […]

Werewolves live among us

Red Moon by Benjamin Percy

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Ugh.  OK.  This one was a little rough.  It was such a good concept, but it was sooooo slow.  I think the audiobook was about 20-21 hours.  It probably could’ve been 10 and it would’ve been better. The premise is that some people in the world are werewolves.  They were “infected” with a prion originated in wolves.  I nerdily enjoyed the backstory of the disease.  I could’ve listened to more about that! It starts out strong too.  Patrick Gamble is on a plane flying to […]

Welcome to the modern world

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I was in the sixth grade when the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. I was a little too young to be fully aware of Waco, Ruby Ridge, or the first World Trade Center attack, and, as an army brat, while the first Gulf War affected my family personally, I only really saw it as something that might take my father from me. So the 1995 terrorist attack was the first real event that captured my interest – and not least […]

Somebody wanted to kill the whole LAPD bomb squad

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cbr10bingo… Brain Candy Ok so this book is about a bomb maker who’s planting bombs throughout Los Angeles in the hopes of killing bomb squad technicians.  How is this brain candy you ask?  Well, to me building a bomb, and/or diffusing a bomb is escapism.  I will never do either in my life, and hopefully never even see one, so it doesn’t get more escapy than that! I read the audiobook version of this book.  At first, I almost laughed out loud at the guy’s […]

I was misinformed, then I was wrong, and now I’m at a loss over a 20 year old tragedy

Columbine by Dave Cullen

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I started this review on April 15th with the line, “I don’t like the style of this book.” Which was true at the time, and ultimately led me to abandon reading it until a couple weeks ago. One of my favorite podcast discoveries this year has been one called Martyrmade. It’s a history podcast in the style of Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, heavily detailed with long episodes. The man who makes Martyrmade, Darryl Cooper, has another podcast (which I do not recommend, by the way), […]

And from this seed grew a tree of discontent

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At a convention in Las Vegas, 70,000 people are murdered in a brutal terrorist attack using stolen nanotechnology.  As a result, a concerted effort is made by political activists to destroy the nanotech industry. The man who invented the stolen technology is the only person standing in between a government witch hunt and the forward progress of scientific development. Ok. That, I think, is an interesting premise for a book. That’s the premise that led me to pick this book up. The belief that this […]



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