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Rated A Deadly Education 9/10

Wants to read The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus

Rated A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need 8/10

Rated A STORM OF SWORDS BY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 6/10

Rated Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World 9/10

Reviewed Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

This is a great one for anyone who is interested in InfoSec. This is a story about the world’s first (known) digital weapon. If you haven’t heard of Stuxnet, hold on to your socks. This thing sounds like the bad plot to a low-budget, doomsday film. The weirdest part of this book is that it all really happened.

If you have not heard of it before, Stuxnet was a computer virus that was created to physically thwart Iran’s ability to enrich uranium. That’s right, a computer virus to physically put a stop to Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons.

I don’t want to give too much of the story away, but this is a great listen. Even if you’re not really into InfoSec, it is very interesting.

If you are looking for a quick summary of the book, instead of a review of the audiobook, check out this summary I wrote for a book club in 2017. Remember, summaries contain spoilers.

Wants to read Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

Rated Carl's Doomsday Scenario 10/10

Wants to read A House Is a Body

Rated Dragon Weather 8/10

Rated Leviathan Wakes 9/10

Wants to read The Art and Making of Control Limited Edition

Wants to read Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Wants to read Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Wants to read Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

Wants to read Jirel of Joiry and Selected Stories

Finished reading A Stranger in the Citadel

Wants to read Wolf Country

Finished reading Sour Cherry

Rated Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality 8/10

This book isn't going to be for everyone, but I really enjoyed it. There are a few chapters in the book that can easily be skipped, if you don't want to understand all the math behind some of the topics he is talking about in the book. I suggest this book for any mathematics major currently in school, or anyone who is interested in mathematics in general. I also suggest this book for anyone who is interested in discrimination within the USSR against Jewish people.

I thought this was a lovely read, and return to it about once a year. There is one particular part of the story that really emphasizes the Cold War for all of us who weren't around, or too young to remember it. The part when the author visits a grocery store in the United States for the first time is really eye-opening.

Wants to read Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain

Wants to read Cahokia Jazz

Wants to read The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome

Wants to read Island of Shattered Dreams

Finished reading The Mysteries