Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm a 41yo 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

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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 […]

The Series Conclusion

The Last Emperox by John Scalzi

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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 […]

Ahh yes, the Hamil-tome

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

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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 […]

For work and for fun

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

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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 […]

Another movie/show before the book

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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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 […]

A classic

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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The first time I heard of this book was fifth grade. It was one of the choices for our book reports. I think I didn’t read it because it was about a girl. Boy, was I dumb. I saw the movie when it came out but I didn’t read it for myself until this year. Three things struck me about it. First, was that the author did not pull punches with her vocabulary. I read later that she did not consider it to be “just […]



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