Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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One Good Book About Edward VIII and One Bad Book

The Woman Before Wallis by Andrew Rose

Traitor King by Andrew Lownie

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These two books contrast very well in terms of how to do historical research and writing well versus how to do it lazily and sloppily. Andrew Lownie’s Traitor King is a great example of deep, serious research combined with strong, clear writing. Lownie makes an extremely well-sourced case for the argument that Edward VIII (David) had strong connections to the Nazis, as did Wallis, and that both of them were fully traitors to the British nation. I have never been a fan of David at […]

This seems a little less fun everyday

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P.W. Singer and August Cole

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I attended graduate school at the Naval Postgraduate School, run by the U.S. Navy. This book was recommended by everyone I met there.  One of the authors, P.W. Singer, was a guest lecturer while I was a student. I’d already read his other book, Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media and I really liked it. Well, I really appreciated it but liking it might be a tad macabre as it detailed all the things that were happening on social media to influence our opinions. […]

In a year 2525 (or thereabouts)

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First published in 1960, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. is considered a somewhat of a classic of post-apocalyptic science fiction. I’ve wanted to read it for years, thanks to goodreads and its recommendations page. See, goodreads thought that since I intend to read Russel Hoban’s Riddley Walker one day, I would also enjoy A Canticle for Leibowitz. And it wasn’t entirely wrong. The novel is divided into three parts, with each part taking the reader further and further into the post […]



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