bforbaker.com

a blog since 2021

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Hi there! My name is Justin and I recently picked up the hobby of reading. It only took 30 years (crazy, right?), and since starting my journey of reading in November 2020, I’ve already finished 18…

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I loved reading this, and recommend everyone to do the same. I must be transparent in the fact that writing about Donald Trump isn’t something I love to do, but find importance in for this book review. This is the first book by Bob Woodward I have read and I really enjoyed it. It is [...]

(via (7/100) Rage by Bob Woodward)

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The third, but standalone, novel to the Little Brother series. Attack Surface. attack surface: the set of points on the boundary of a system, a system element, or an environment where an attacker can try to enter, cause an effect on, or extract data from, that system, system element, or environment. https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/attack_surface This book breaks [...]

(via (6/100) Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow)

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Book Two of the Little Brother series starts a few years after the first book. California’s economy has went bottom up. Because of this, Marcus’s dad has lost his job, and Marcus had to drop out of college. Most of the people in the area are either having to sell their homes, or are being [...]

(via (5/100) Homeland by Cory Doctorow)

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The fourth book on my reading list this year was one my wife has been telling me I had to read, but that it was important to be in the right head space for it. This book is about the author himself, Dave Pelzer, and is a true account of his life between the ages […]

(via (4/100) A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer)

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After being paranoid from reading two books in a row about how I no longer have any privacy and knowing the government can pretty much read my mind, I decided to read something more lighthearted to take a break from reality. I have been watching Rhett & Link’s YouTube series, Good Mythical Morning, for a […]

(via (3/100) The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal)

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Where do I even start with this one? After reading Little Brother, I needed to read something about what MY government what actually doing to me. I thought I already knew about Edward Snowden, and how the Mass Surveillance Program (that the National Security Agency (NSA) is responsible for) was secretly collecting mass amounts of […]

(via (2/100) Permanent Record by Edward Snowden)

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I wanted to start this year’s reading challenge out by reading a series I had never heard of, by an author I didn’t know. For Christmas, my amazing wife gifted me with a Barnes & Noble gift card. While looking at the newly released books, I came across Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. 

(via (1/100) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow)

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This year I am working on reading 100 book in one year. Follow me on GoodReads Little Brother by Cory DoctorowPermanent Record by Edward SnowdenA Child Called “It” by Dave PelzerThe Lost Causes of …