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17. I finished Ender's Game last night

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 08:14 PM

Jan 2019

It's kind of a disturbing book and when I was about halfway through I looked up the reviews. It won a Nebula and a Hugo and it's on the Marine Corps Professional Reading list for officer candidates. It's not hard to see why. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that high school football coaches had their kids reading it, which is a little scary.

i'm starting Crosstalk next, by Connie Willis. I've read several of hers. To Say Nothing of the Dog is my favorite so far. I'm also reading The First Tycoon by T.J Stiles. Lucky for us, many of Vanderbilt's methods of amassing a fortune are now illegal. Nowadays the crime is what's legal.

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