A Few Good Reads
Dec/07/09 07:00 AM
This has to be my third blog post from up in the air over the past month or so. Guess I’ve been doing a lot of flying. Currently about an hour and a half away from San Francisco.
It’s been a busy week, so I’ve been a little more detached from the news than usual. I’ve had roughly a million (give or take a few) end-of-semester projects and papers due over the past days so I don’t really have anything political to rant or rave about, though there is plenty going on- health care, the surge in Afghanistan, Climategate, etc.
So, I’ll share with you a book I just finished here a few minutes ago, squeezed in the middle seat between an antsy businesswoman and a man a little too eager to share his germy coughing with myself and the rest of the plane.
The book is called Joker One by Donovan Campbell. I don’t think it’s out in full release yet, but you can get an early hardcover copy on Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com. It’s written by a Princeton graduated Marine Corps Lieutenant who leads his platoon through Ramadi, Iraq in 2004. He’s a great writer and really captures the feeling and emotion of the scenes he saw on this tour. You’d be hardpressed not to get gooesbumps or a tear a few times throughout the piece.
Anyways, its worth checking out if you’re interested in getting a firsthand account of the war, as well as Nathaniel Fick’s One Bullet Away and Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor.
It’s been a busy week, so I’ve been a little more detached from the news than usual. I’ve had roughly a million (give or take a few) end-of-semester projects and papers due over the past days so I don’t really have anything political to rant or rave about, though there is plenty going on- health care, the surge in Afghanistan, Climategate, etc.
So, I’ll share with you a book I just finished here a few minutes ago, squeezed in the middle seat between an antsy businesswoman and a man a little too eager to share his germy coughing with myself and the rest of the plane.
The book is called Joker One by Donovan Campbell. I don’t think it’s out in full release yet, but you can get an early hardcover copy on Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com. It’s written by a Princeton graduated Marine Corps Lieutenant who leads his platoon through Ramadi, Iraq in 2004. He’s a great writer and really captures the feeling and emotion of the scenes he saw on this tour. You’d be hardpressed not to get gooesbumps or a tear a few times throughout the piece.
Anyways, its worth checking out if you’re interested in getting a firsthand account of the war, as well as Nathaniel Fick’s One Bullet Away and Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor.
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