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Apples!
In the interest of making this journal slightly less boring, I've decided to try posting stuff I make, as well as stuff I read. Also, I need to learn to use my little pocket camera better (it's a Nikon Coolpix) so actually taking pictures of things may help with that.
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Since I seem to be babbling all over the internets tonight, I may as well go ahead and do my book update post.
Books :
Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Ladin, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll ( Read more... ) -
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I went to a talk tonight (part of a regular history themed series) by Don Malarkey, a WWII vet whose E company platoon (101st airborne paratroopers iirc?) was the subject of HBO's Band of Brothers series. He was a very entertaining speaker, if a bit...disorganized (he has my grandmother's love of extreme digression), but I really wish I'd either ( Read more... ) -
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Yes, more books, but at this point I just have to stop apologizing or I will be doing it forever. Um, sorry!
Books :
Fareed Zakaria The Post-American World
Michael Isikoff and David Corn Hubris : The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq WarI really hope the snow goes away soon, because Dad and I are supposed to see Sherlock ( Read more... ) -
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Yay! ....more book updates?
Okay, I know it's lame and someday I will do a real entry again.
Books :
Reza Aslan No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis: The Story of a ChildhoodRecommended even outside of my topic of reading, this is just such a good book. For those who haven't come across it before ( Read more... ) -
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Another not-entry book update!
Books :
Thomas Ricks Making the Corps
(I particularly recommend the '07 edition because it includes a new afterward with updates on the Marines profiled as well as some reflection on the book itself.)
Also! Powell's is having Free Shipping with no minimum order amount until midnight (Pacific time, so that would be ( Read more... ) -
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Stayed up late to finish reading because it's been difficult to have my current reading book something I didn't want to read in public (because of the occasional crying involved). Martha Raddatz is a really good writer and she paints an exceptionally vivid account of the April 4, 2004 uprising in Sadr City from the point of view of the American ( Read more... ) -
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http://www.goodreads.com/prysmicdorkI've made a Good Reads page to go along with my booklist (but I'm not going to bother to go in and add everything on my shelves, because I am lazy and also does the world really need to know that I own five billion Terry Pratchett books?) because it kind of looks like a fun site and also I really love reading ( Read more... ) -
Books for this week
Don't really have a journal post in me, so just updating the book log.
Books :
Nathaniel Fick One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society -
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Having finished watching it last night, I can now say that the new BBC Emma is awesomesause, officially my favorite version (I think it has something to do with it being a 4 hour series, so it can really take its time with things) and Romola Garai is so lovely and she just hit all the right notes (and for those of us who are also superficial ( Read more... )