Yes, it’s the sequel and it wouldn’t make any sense unless you read the first one.
DAYUM!! You’ve got some endurance superpowers. I’m a 12 hours or less with only a couple exceptions… My sweet spot is about 9 hours. Clearly, I have the attention span of a gnat. lol
On another note, I just started listening to It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica (it’s a whole 11 hours!!)
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11 hours! An eternity.
Several months wait. I am #333 inline 
You do have crazy endurance - so wait it out… lol
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Your library has actual due dates? You can’t keep the books for as long as you like? That sucks. Or, can you just click on “extend/renew” to keep it longer (sorry, I’m assuming your library has an app)? Do you have late fee/fines? Ha, sorry for all the questions, it’s interesting to see how other libraries function.
I guess I should really be thankful that I’m fortunate my library has no limit on the number of books you can check out, you can keep them as long as you like (granted if I checked out a relatively new/popular book I would NOT do that, that’s just being a selfish asshole), when they’re “due” you can click the renew button to check it out for another 2 week period. And as far as fines, my wife checked out a book one time and forgot about it, and I hadn’t been to the library for a long time, like almost a year, and when I one day opened the app and saw I had a fine (it was like $8 or something) I immediately had my wife dig it out of her rubble pile and went flying over to the library(I felt guilty for keeping it so long, weird I know), I returned it to the slot, then went to the desk and said “I’m here to settle up my fine, sorry” & she asked if I had just now returned it, I said yes, and she goes, oh, you’re good then, there is no fine. I was gonna ask “then why did I have a fine in my library app” but thought better of it and left.
And as I’ve said earlier, on my library app I can search for books and when I find one I want to borrow, I just click the hold button and they either get it from my branch across the street, or, if it’s at another branch, they will ship it to my branch! Then the put a sticker on the spine with the first 5 letters of my last name, I get an email saying it’s ready, I walk in, the “holds” are right by the door. I open the app, and I can use my phone to scan in the book code and check it out right there, then walk out. I love technology sometimes….but to be honest, I’m normally an anti-technology old school guy. But man it makes reading a book ridiculously easy. Sadly, I hardly ever see anyone in the library under the age of like 30….it’s just us older adults. I don’t think kids these days really read much, which is really sad.
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We do have due dates, but I have the ability to renew. This is actually the first time I’ve gotten a book from this library. I’ve used my card exclusively for digital and audiobooks up until now, so I’m just figuring out their policies. The hold system here is the same as you described which was new to me. But honestly, I don’t know if I have ever put a book on hold at an actual library before. Lol. I do love libraries. My sons used to read but now I can barely get them to pick up books. I think my youngest doesn’t enjoy them because he has some issues with reading comprehension. So I think he struggles and get frustrated. But it does make me a bit sad since my husband and I love to read so much. To be honest, I’m not sure I loved reading when I was their age, so maybe they will grow into it. I feel like it just takes that one book that blows your hair back and then you are hooked. They just need to find that book!
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DNF Flight of Dreams- Ariel Lawhon. I endured half of it and just didn’t care what happened to any of the characters (well maybe the dog), so I let it go. Not sure if it was the story or the narrator but nah.
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There is always a good chance that they will develop a love of reading at some point. Especially when their lives “slow down” a bit, you know? For example, I was a big reader when I was a little kid. In fact, I was such a bookworm that sometimes on Saturday’s I’d have my mom drop me off at the library in the morning and I’d stay there reading anything I could think of until she’d pick me up in the afternoon. Looking back, now I realize how she most likely had ulterior motives for encouraging me to do that, hahha. But I loved reading mainly nonfiction books about plants, bugs, animals, cars, etc. Anything I saw in the world, I wanted to learn about it. I continued reading through elementary school, then in maybe 5th - 8th grade I switched over to Stephen King, Dean Koontz, things like that. And I mowed through books just as fast as I do now.
Then life happened and in high school I pretty much stopped, too busy with sports, gf, friends, etc. Same for college and in my 20s with jobs, going out, etc. I only really picked it back up in my late 30s, maybe even early 40s like I want to say around 41.
So, there’s always hope, you can encourage them but as I’m sure you know, just like the saying goes “you can lead a horse to water…..” Not to mention, in high school and beyond, you don’t want to be called a “nerd” because you , gasp, read a lot of books all the time.
Like you said, you just have to hope they one day pick up a book again and luck out and get one with a story/plot that totally grips them, makes them want to keep turning pages and not put it down. When that happens, they’ll discover how great it is.
PS - Maybe for their birthdays, try and pick out a book that you think they will really benefit from reading or one that you loved. For instance, I think every kid should read Dale Carnegie’s “How to win friends and influence people”, it’s got great life advice. Or, Sun Tzu’s “The art of war”, it has so many concepts which can be applied to your personal life, your work like, etc. It really teaches one to think strategically. Just a thought.
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Just finished Crossroads by CJ Box book 26 in the Joe Pickett series. Entertaining as always.
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I finished Crimson Lake, and plan to continue with the series.
Amanda is a good character, plus the goose and the goslings of course!
Honestly, (this probably sounds sexist) I think the author did a terrible job of depicting the ex-cop dude. A large (I think he was 110? kg) well built, tough ex-cop who knows he’s been falsely accused, and mistreated, is not going to act like the big pussy that imo he was depicted as for most of the book; I kept dreaming about slapping him upside the head and telling him to man the fuck up LOL. I blame it on the author being female… 
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I absolutely agree! I kept thinking he needed to grow set! Thankfully Amanda had enough balls for both of them
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100%!
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Just finished this one. Wow! I had part of it figured out but, not all of it. Good listen!
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Finished “Crooked River”, “The Cabinent of Dr. Leng”(EXCELLENT) and “Angel of Vengeance”(also Excellent), now reading the latest and last Preston & Child book “Pendergast - the beginning”. I’m kinda bummed as this is the last one in the Pendergast series, but man this series has been fantastic, possibly the best series of books I’ve read.
I have to go pick up “Riptide” from the library, it’s a separate book by the same authors, again recommended by @ChickenLittle , and I also have checked out “The Jungle” & “Oil’, both by Upton Sinclair. For some reason I didn’t read them in school, but they are apparently classics.
After that, well, I’ll scroll back in this thread and check out some of the recommendations yall have given me. Thanks again!
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Listened to Head Cases and Inside Man by John McMahon. Okay, I’ll grab the next one if there is one.
Listening to Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter. Not sure about this one. FMC is pretty weak so far.
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I am now reading Ryan Holiday’s Ego Is The Enemy. He is a slightly more (also less) modern Robert Greene.
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I ordered two new Dan John books and one additional kettlebell book. They won’t get here until Monday but I’m pretty excited.
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This is probably the document I’ve read most frequently but thankfully have not had to read it again in a while
My next most frequently read thing is likely this
@ChickenLittle Hey, since you were the one who originally turned me on to Preston & Child, I meant to ask you, since it just came out, have you had a chance to read their newest entry in the Pendergast series Pendergast: The Beginning”? I’m about 80 pages out from finishing it and it’s pretty good. Not as much action as some, but it is a prequel so it deals with his first FBI case back in the early 90’s….right after the death of his wife.
After I complete this, I’ve got “Riptide” sitting here, ready to go! Then I’ll finally get to “The Jungle” & “Oil” by Upton Sinclair.
For my birthday, my mom sent me an Amazon box full of books! I loved it. I got “Absolute Power” (I think they made it into a movie, which I didn’t see but my wife said it was good…so the book must be I’d imagine), James Patterson “The Russian”, and possibly my favorite, 2 Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers!!! If yall haven’t had the pleasure of reading these, I highly suggest them! They are, as the name states, bathroom readers and they are full of strange short news clips, odd factoids, word origins, History of ____, and all of these short little bits of trivia and fun stuff. Like at the bottom of each page is a cool little fact. Check them out, they are really fun to read. But be careful, supposedly you are NOT supposed to sit in the bathroom very long, it’s not good for your butt….literally!
Anyone read that James Patterson book I mentioned…is is any good?
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No, have not read the new one yet. I’ll get around to it eventually when it becomes less popular so I don’t have to wait months for it from the library.
Absolute Power is gooood!
I have not read the James Patterson book but he is hit or miss with me. I have read several but didn’t enjoy them enough to chew up the whole series.
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